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Dish of the Day

June 19, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

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

Monday, June 19, 2023

Today on TCM:

“How does it feel to be a decent, respectable married man?”

Dick Powell’s Everyman faces a mid-life crisis, including a far more considerable threat to his well being in the form of Raymond Burr’s jealous contractor in Pitfall (1948),

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categories / Dish of the Day
tags / Film musings, TCM Recommendations, Pitfall (1948)

"Now Listen to Me..."

May 31, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on this month’s happenings:

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tags / Film Forum New York City, The Beverly Cinema, American Cinematheque, The Astor Theatre Melbourne, Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca, The Prince Charles Cinema, Fathom Events, The Cinemateket i Bergen, Noir City Boston, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, Flashback Cinema, Secret Movie Club, The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, TCM Recommendations, Bringing Up Baby (1938), Out of the Past (1947), Pillow Talk (1959), Colorado Territory (1949), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Split Second (1953), Ikiru (1952), The Cinematheque Vancouver, In a Lonely Place (1950), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967), The Los Angeles Conservancy, Intruder in the Dust (1949), Pitfall (1948), Sullivan's Travels (1941), Vertigo (1958), Rope (1948), Victim (1961), The Unsuspected (1947), D.O.A. (1950), James Newton Howard, Primal Fear (1996) (Soundtrack)

"Now Listen to Me..."

October 04, 2021  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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categories / Now Listen To Me
tags / The Prince Charles Cinema, The Beverly Cinema, Film Forum New York City, Secret Movie Club, Noir City D.C., Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, The Cinemateket i Bergen, Arthur Lyons' Film Noir Festival, Flashback Cinema, TCM and Fathom Events, TCM Recommendations, The Seventh Victim (1943), In a Lonely Place, All About Eve (1950), Armored Car Robbery, D.O.A. (1949), Pitfall (1948), Mystery Street, Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage), Citizen Kane, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Where Eagles Dare (1968), Heiress The (1949), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Sorry Wrong Number (1948), Them! (1954), Bringing Up Baby, Night of the Living Dead (1968), Psycho (1960), Brian Doyle-Murray, Valkyrie (Soundtrack)

"Now Listen to Me..."

November 04, 2020  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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categories / Now Listen To Me
tags / Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, Noir City, TCM Recommendations, Pitfall (1948), Ghost and Mrs. Muir The (1947), Vertigo (1958), Ride the High Country, Point Blank (1967), Nora Prentiss (1947), The Unsuspected (1947), Now Voyager, Casablanca, Where Eagles Dare (1968), They Won't Believe Me, Freaks (1932), In a Lonely Place, Bringing Up Baby, Ipcress File The, Big Sleep The (1946), Treasure of the Sierra Madre The, Duck Soup (1933), Red River, Hill The, Psycho (1960), Suspense (1946), White Heat, Sandra Descher, Jacob's Ladder (Soundtrack)

"Now Listen to Me..."

June 01, 2020  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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tags / TCM Recommendations, Anatomy of a Murder, Bullitt, Ride the High Country, Wild Bunch The, Getaway The (1972), Monkey Business (1931), Duck Soup (1933), Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage), Gun Crazy (1950), Nora Prentiss (1947), Swimmer The (1968), D.O.A. (1950), Pitfall (1948), Niagara (1953), In a Lonely Place, Stranger on the Third Floor, Strange Cargo, Madchen in Uniform (Maedchen in Uniform) (1931), King Kong (1933), Lady from Shanghai The, Manhattan (1979), Reflections in a Golden Eye, Vincent D’Onofrio, Young Lions The (Soundtrack)

"Now Listen to Me..."

May 02, 2019  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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categories / Now Listen To Me
tags / The Athens Film Society, The Beverly Cinema, TCM and Fathom Events, Event Cinemas Australia, Arthur Lyons' Film Noir Festival, Roxie Theater San Francisco, Noir Essentials: Departures, The Movies Amsterdam, Noir City Austin, The Atlanta Symphony, The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, The Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra, The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Flashback Cinema, The Old Town Music Hall, TCM Recommendations, Train The, Bringing Up Baby, Jeopardy (1953), Out of the Past, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Illegal (1955), Bullitt, White Heat, Citizen Kane, Lady from Shanghai The, Big Sleep The (1946), Shop Around the Corner The, Man from Laramie The, Scarlet Street (1945), Prowler The (1951), Pitfall (1948), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Searchers The, Night of the Hunter The, Jim Thorpe-All American, Men in War, Best Years of Our Lives The, Lawman (Soundtrack), Sandrine Bonnaire

"Now Listen to Me..."

December 05, 2018  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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categories / Now Listen To Me
tags / TCM & Fathom Events, Flashback Cinema, City Light Symphony Orchestra, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae, The Diablo Symphony Orchestra, Noir City Xmas, TCM Recommendations, Mystery Street, Crime Wave, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Too Late for Tears, Out of the Past, It's a Gift (1934), Singin' in the Rain, Patterns (1956), Prowler The (1951), Strange Cargo, Shop Around the Corner The, Best Years of Our Lives The, Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis), Asphalt Jungle The, Getaway The (1972), White Heat, Remember the Night, Bringing Up Baby, Pitfall (1948), Tall Target The, Treasure of the Sierra Madre The, Ride the High Country, Double Indemnity, Doctor Zhivago (1965), Casablanca, Russ Tamblyn, Big Country The (Soundtrack)