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Thursday, February 12, 2026
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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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Thursday, February 5, 2026
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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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Wednesday, February 4, 2026
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Next on my list of films to watch is King Kong (1933). I have reviewed this motion picture with a focus on its musical score here.
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Monday, February 2, 2026
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This next must-see TCM film recommendation is Italian director Vittorio De Sica's neo-realist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette), one of the most emotionally devastating films of all time (See: Top Ten: World Cinema Treasures).
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Monday, January 19, 2026
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1974's Freebie and the Bean is a cautious recommendation since it is one of my personal Top Ten Guilty Treasures and is about as non-P.C. as a film can get.
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
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Although starting out as quite the common man, circumstances will turn this rather nondescript accountant played by Edmond O'Brien, into a kind of noir superhero in D.O.A. (1950) previously recommended here.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
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Next is a sterling example of how to present complex and enthralling characters, all of whom develop naturally while still holding our intense fascination: Citizen Kane (1941).
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Monday, January 5, 2026
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1967's Hotel was taken, like 1970's Airport, from a novel by Arthur Hailey and is the far better crafted of the two films.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
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Please have a read here and see why 1933’s Gold Diggers of 1933 is as enjoyable and pertinent as the shows these spirited characters struggle to produce.
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
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Anyone who wishes to enjoy the Holiday spirit might want to pay a little visit to Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), previously reviewed here.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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This will be a really bad day for anyone who encounters Them! (the giant mutant ants that is).
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Thursday, December 11, 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 was previously reviewed here.
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
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Viewers who dare to have their imaginations stretched considerably should be rewarded Where Eagles Dare (1968), previously reviewed here.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
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Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), previously reviewed here, is loaded with multi-faceted insights and hidden rumination on human relationships providing viewers with much to ponder long after this tale of romantic obsession ends.
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