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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Tomorrow early morning on TCM:
“How does it feel to be a decent, respectable married man?”
Dick Powell’s Everyman faces a mid-life crisis, including a far more considerable threat to his well being in the form of Raymond Burr’s jealous contractor, in Pitfall (1948), previously recommended here.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until May 15th):
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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Monday, May 13, 2024
Today on TCM:
Next up is the remarkably understated, albeit compelling, racial drama Intruder in the Dust released in 1949.
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Friday, May 10, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
In 1967, British Director John Boorman nailed the American crime milieu with the precision of his film's title, Point Blank, a neo-noir masterpiece fortified with style and driven by purpose.
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Thursday, May 9, 2024
In Palm Springs, California, the 2024 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival celebrates its 2024 incarnation beginning on Thursday evening May 9th.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024
In Los Feliz (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Los Feliz 3 Theatre will present the colour film noir Desert Fury (1947, a 35mm print)
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Tonight on TCM:
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, May 6, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until May 12th):
Ace in the Hole (1951) is Billy Wilder's scathing examination of American opportunism and moral depravity via cocky newspaper reporter Chuck Tatum,
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Friday May 3, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
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.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Today on TCM:
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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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Today on TCM:
"And then I saw her - coming out of the sun. And I knew why Whit didn't care about that 40 grand."
Out of the Past (1947) is one of film noir's finest and most highly recommended here.
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Monday, April 29, 2024
In Los Feliz (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Los Feliz 3 Theatre will present The Manchurian Candidate (1962, as part of their CINEMATIC VOID series)
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Friday April 26, 2024
Tonight on TCM:
Dustin Hoffman’s breakthrough role occurred in 1967’s The Graduate
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Tomorrow (early morning) on TCM:
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s more uncustomary, yet distinguished, offerings is 1953’s I Confess
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Today on TCM:
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 magnum opus Apocalypse Now (the "Theatrical Version" reviewed here) has been canonised by its opening alone: perhaps the most hypnotically captivating introduction in the history of cinema.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until April 29th):
One of director David Lean’s more ambitious projects may have turned out less artistically accomplished than its director intended. Still, it has many attributes making Doctor Zhivago (1965) well worth seeing.
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Monday, April 22, 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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Friday, April 19, 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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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Just a reminder that in Hollywood (part of greater Los Angeles), California TCM is having its annual Classic Film Festival Thursday, April 18 to Sunday, April 21.
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