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Friday, June 28, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
Next is another film noir bonafide classic: 1952’s The Narrow Margin.
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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
Many readers have taken me to task for my inclusion of Casablanca on a list of “All that Glitters…”: The Overrated.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the second and remaining half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column containing another 14 recommended movies to watch on TCM
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Monday, June 24, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until July 1st):
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951), previously reviewed here, may sound like some forgotten Douglas Sirk melodrama but certainly has its fair share of film noir qualifications delivered with assuredness by director Felix Feist.
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Friday, June 21, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
Fans of film noir who haven't seen John Brahm's 1946 The Locket do not want to miss the opportunity to experience this hypnotically mesmerising drama.
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Thursday, June 20, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until June 30th):
1972's The Getaway, is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films; still, as a genre piece, it punches solidly above its pay grade.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024
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Anthony Mann’s low-budget, up close and personal foray into the war genre is an artistic triumph of the highest order: 1957’s Men in War
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Tonight on TCM:
“What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.”
All About Eve (1950) is really all about the spoken word and is a prior TCM recommendation here.
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Monday, June 17, 2023
Today on TCM:
One of 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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Friday, June 14, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) 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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Thursday, June 13, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until June 14th):
“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)
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024
This morning on TCM:
The next TCM recommendation has been reviewed in Opening Up a Treasure: The Night of the Hunter.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Tomorrow (early morning) on TCM:
Many experts have claimed that this next TCM recommendation is the first identifiable film noir made in the U.S. and released during the category's classic time period (1940 - 1959): Boris Ingster's 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor.
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Monday, June 10, 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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Sunday, June 9, 2024
Today on TCM:
One of my past TCM recommendations, reviewed here, is 1945’s The Lost Weekend. Billy Wilder's portrayal of a struggling alcoholic contains a powerhouse performance by Ray Milland.
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Friday, June 7, 2024
Today on TCM:
TCM will present Charlie Chaplin’s charming cinematic love letter 1931’s City Lights
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