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Dish of the Day

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) has Humphrey Bogart portraying perhaps his darkest and most psychologically troubled character. Watching his slow transformation from an honest and idealistic adventurer to a tormented, paranoid psychotic is one of the art's most stunning, dramatically forceful experiences, perfectly matched to a magnificent and ironic conclusion. My further thoughts on this film are here.

(From left) Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt

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Hope to see you tomorrow.

A.G.

Dish of the Day

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until July 24th):

Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride... the naked and the dead.

Next up is Richard Fleischer’s little powder keg of a film noir Armored Car Robbery (1950), previously recommended here.

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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)


Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Friday, July 18, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until July 21st):

One of Sidney Poitier’s most persuasive film roles occurs in the lesser known but exceptional cold war thriller The Bedford Incident: Hidden Gem #32 and previously recommended here.

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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)


Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Friday, July 11, 2025

Tomorrow on TCM:

After her breakthrough role in Joseph von Sternberg's The Blue Angel made in Germany, Marlene Dietrich made six more films with the autocratic director in the U.S. The Scarlet Empress (1934), previously reviewed here, is arguably the duo’s most accomplished.

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Dish of the Day

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

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In 1966, one of the more challenging films to face off against the Production Code (mentioned in Exploring the Artefacts #3: Code Breakers) was that year’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (reviewed here) remarkably delivering all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own.

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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)


Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Friday, July 4, 2025

Tomorrow on TCM:

1972's The Getaway is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films; still, as a genre piece, it punches solidly above its pay grade.

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