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Thursday, April 17, 2025
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This must-see TCM film recommendation is Italian director Vittorio De Sica's 1948 neo-realist masterpiece The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette), one of the most emotionally devastating films of all time (See: Top Ten: World Cinema Treasures).
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Returning to underappreciated films noir, we have Hidden Gem #10 They Won't Believe Me with its fascinating, twisted plot and antithetically noir central character.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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Next is the highly engrossing and tension filled film noir The Steel Trap (1952)
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
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MGM's 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain was not adapted from a theatrical production, though the film was later turned into one, being first presented on stage in 1983.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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This next film to see is Fritz Lang’s 1952 Clash by Night
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
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Barbara Stanwyck stars as a devoted wife trying to save her husband (played by Barry Sullivan) but equally determined to match wits against killer Ralph Meeker in order to do so, in the previously recommended (here) film noir, 1953's Jeopardy.
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Friday, March 14, 2025
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1972's The Getaway, is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
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TCM is presenting another top Preston Sturges classic, Remember the Night (1940)
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A film well worth seeing is Network (1976), a “mad as hell” exposé of just how far some TV executives will go to exploit for profit a former news anchor’s severe “on the air” mental breakdown.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
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Next up is Baby Face (1933), the Pre-Code sensation starring Barbara Stanwyck
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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“Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters.”
Olivia de Havilland is The Heiress (1949)
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Monday, March 3, 2025
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MGM contract player Robert Taylor appeared in a startling number of excellent films. Johnny Eager (1941)
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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“The mattress is soft and there're hangers in the closet and stationary with ‘Bates' Motel’ printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious.”
Still another Hitchcock artistic triumph was, at the time (including throughout its primary creator’s career), the most audacious cinematic assault ever perpetrated on the movie going public or the Motion Picture Production Code for that matter. 1960's Psycho
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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One of the most intelligent and illuminating documentaries ever produced is Robert Epstein's 1984 feature The Times of Harvey Milk
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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A true romance film and of the highest artistic calibre has been reviewed in Opening Up a Treasure: Brief Encounter.
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Monday, February 17, 2025
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One of cinema’s most quintessential performances can be seen in 1947’s Possessed by the film’s star Joan Crawford.
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