Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, December 20, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
From 1947 comes a story that takes place during the Christmas Holidays, the film noir Lady in the Lake reviewed here, Sunday, December 22 at 7 am PST.
Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, December 16, 2024
Today on TCM:
This next TCM recommendation is made for its John Williams composed score more than anything else. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) has been reviewed here
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
What better way for film lovers to celebrate cinema's diversity after watching a terrifying drama like 1962’s Cape Fear, than to partake in the light-hearted, almost make-believe world of a Princess' Roman Holiday (1953)?
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, November 29, 2024
Today on TCM:
After directing Colorado Territory, Raoul Walsh’s very next film retained all of that film’s energy and even added some for White Heat (1949), previously reviewed here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, November 22, 2024
Today on TCM:
Otto Preminger’s directed classic, 1944’s Laura, is the exacting director’s slick and assured amalgamation of mystery (whodunnit) and film noir (obsessive desire, gruesome murder etc) elements.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
If I was in charge of choosing a single film noir for someone only willing to see one in the entire canon, I would select Double Indemnity (1944) as its most fulfilling and accomplished representative.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Today on TCM:
Dark Passage (1947) is a wildly engrossing film noir that combines the best of romance with the best of noir in the best location for both: San Francisco.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, November 18, 2024
Today on TCM:
My enthusiasm for the next film may be “icier” than say Howard Hughes’, however, viewers may find enough intrigue, suspense and supportive factors to make the journey to Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, November 15, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
This next TCM recommendation is made for its John Williams composed score more than anything else. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) has been reviewed here
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, November 14, 2024
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), previously recommended here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, November 11, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951), previously reviewed here, may sound like some forgotten Douglas Sirk melodrama, but certainly has its fair share of film noir qualifications delivered with assuredness by director Felix Feist.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
"Why should the Falls drag me down here at 5 o'clock in the morning? To show me how big they are and how small I am? To remind me they can get along without any help? All right, so they've proved it. But why not? They've had ten thousand years to get independent. What's so wonderful about that? I suppose I could too, only it might take a little more time."
What exactly is film noir? Many enthusiasts and experts continue to debate the subject, with numerous examples of films that should, and just as many that should not, be included in the category. Some, who most likely feel that noir films rely on a certain look, dismiss any colour film as unworthy of being categorised as such. Others like myself, prone to distinguishing noir by its subject matter, are more inclined to include colour films produced during noir's classic time period that focus on crime and the psychologies of those involved. This brings me to my next TCM selection and a prior Blu-ray recommendation here, 1953's Niagara
