Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, January 20, 2025
Today on TCM:
Next up is the remarkably understated, albeit compelling, racial drama Intruder in the Dust released in 1949.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Make way for the rapturous Stanley Donen directed musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, January 10, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
The unmissable Busby Berkeley extravaganza Footlight Parade (1933)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
In my review of Casablanca (1942), I made some criticism regarding its emotionally underwhelming Parisian flashback. Prior to this film, however, Casablanca's producer Hal Wallis and one of its contributing writers, Casey Robinson, made Now, Voyager (1942)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Today on TCM:
Rarely does an atmosphere of such overpowering dread subsume a cinematic story so completely as it does 1943's The Seventh Victim.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, January 3, 2025
Today on TCM:
1945’s Spellbound directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is another film whereby I’ve previously promoted its soundtrack and have added a few words regarding the film itself here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Today on TCM:
TCM is bringing back Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, December 30, 2024
Today on TCM:
My last TCM recommendation of the year (reviewed here) is 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, December 27, 2024
Today on TCM:
When affairs of the heart are so well integrated with thoughts of murder as they are in the Humphrey Bogart starrer Conflict (1945), we have the makings of an exceptional film noir. This
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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
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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
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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)?
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the first half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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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.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
TCM is also having a rare showing of another underrated film noir, Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, November 25, 2024
Today on TCM:
Another film noir worth checking out (although not so well known), is 1955’s Illegal previously reviewed here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Today on TCM:
Despite its ridiculously hard to follow plot, this next recommendation's wildly entertaining detective yarn is worth waking up for.
Previously reviewed here, The Big Sleep (1946) will awaken Sunday, November 24 at 7 pm PST.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Today on TCM:
This next recommendation is one of film noir's finest, 1950’s Gun Crazy, previously reviewed here.
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