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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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Next up are a couple of “Streets” fellow travellers on the road to exciting new film noir discoveries do no want to miss.
Film noir has few representatives as dourly defeatist or as forcefully communicative on the subject of human relations than 1945's Scarlet Street
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the second and remaining half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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My next recommendation is Howard Hawks’ lightening fast comedy/romance His Girl Friday (1940)
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Monday, March 11, 2024
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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)
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Sunday, March 10, 2024
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1967’s Bonnie and Clyde is a seminal gangster saga heavily influenced by the French iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard.
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Saturday, March 9, 2024
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Still another Academy Award winning film from the ‘80s showing this month on TCM (along with Platoon, Out of Africa, and Rain Man) is 1987’s The Last Emperor
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
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Next up is Alfred Hitchcock's dazzling thriller, Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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“What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.”
All About Eve (1950) is really all about the spoken word
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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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, March 4, 2024
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Make way for the rapturous Stanley Donen directed musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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Saturday, March 2, 2024
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is one of the most authentic and enthralling courtroom dramas of all time.
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Friday, March 1, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the first half of next month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the second and remaining half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Monday, February 26, 2024
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Besieged with production problems, and sometimes wrongfully criticised because of them, this next TCM recommendation is, nevertheless, an accomplished and splendorous piece of dramatically dynamic adventure storytelling: the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty
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Friday, February 23, 2024
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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.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024
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The more psychologically disturbing, (than monstrously horrifying) 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has Spencer Tracy in the title role.
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