Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, September 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 previously reviewed here and making another showing on TCM Friday, September 26 at 11:30 am PDT.
(From left) Harvey Milk, George Moscone
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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This next TCM recommendation is, for many experts, the final film noir released during the classification's classic time period (1940 - 1959), Orson Welles' stylistically aggressive Touch of Evil.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, September 22, 2025
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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).
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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After World War II, many returning servicemen were disillusioned to find jobs were scarce and their wives’ (or girlfriends’) faithfulness even scarcer. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) addresses this reality head on when the Dana Andrews character finds it impossible to please either his previous employer or trophy wife upon his return to civilian life.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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What better way for film lovers to celebrate cinema's diversity after watching a serious detective drama like The Big Sleep, 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:
Monday, September 15, 2025
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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:
Friday, September 12, 2025
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Here’s a nifty little noir from the ‘50s featuring a hard cop who, understandably, goes soft for a dame and thus turns to the dark side in Roadblock (1951), previously examined here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
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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:
Wednesday, September 3, 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. Crawford’s thorough commitment is bolstered by the actress, along with the film’s director Curtis Bernhardt, having visited several psychiatric hospitals observing patients and interviewing doctors regarding the script’s authenticity.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, September 1, 2025
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Both tension and fear are at their zenith in Cape Fear (1962) with Robert Mitchum once again playing southern bred evil incarnate as he did in 1955’s The Night of the Hunter.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, August 29, 2025
This weekend on TCM are two films starring Kirk Douglas:
After directing the stylish and innovative 1956 heist film The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, with the assistance of Producer James B. Harris, turned his extraordinary talents to more relevant material with 1957’s Paths of Glory, previously reviewed here.
