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Friday, September 20, 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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Thursday, September 19, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
Some cinephiles take aim at those films identified as film noir if their stories’ setting occur during an earlier time than the classic period (1940 - 1959) in which they were made. They insist that this alone would disqualify a film from being categorised as such, even though the dark criminal surroundings and emphasis on character motive are present and accounted for. The Tall Target is such an example and for myself, joins other so called “period noirs” that are rightfully embraced in the film noir canon.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Today on TCM:
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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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Tonight on TCM:
My next TCM recommendation for the month is, for many experts, the final film noir released during the classification's classic time period (1940 - 1959), Orson Welles' stylistically assertive Touch of Evil (1958).
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Monday, September 16, 2024
Today on TCM:
One of the finest westerns ever made is Top Ten Western #4. Sam Peckinpah's elegiac Ride the High Country (1962)
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Friday, September 13, 2024
In New York City, New York, Film Forum is presenting:
The Searchers (1956, a New 4k Restoration)
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Thursday, September 12, 2024
Tomorrow, early morning, on TCM:
Rarely does an atmosphere of such overpowering dread subsume a cinematic story so completely as it does 1943's The Seventh Victim.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Today 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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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Today on TCM:
There have been quite a few movies centred around boxing over the years from 1937’s Kid Galahad to 2018’s Creed II with plenty of standouts in-between such as 1947’s Body and Soul, 1956’s Somebody Up There Likes Me, 1962’s Requiem for a Heavyweight, 1972’s Fat City and 1980’s Raging Bull. None of these, however, get as straight to the punchline as 1949’s knockout noir The Set-Up
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Monday, September 9, 2024
Today on TCM:
“You will have a real face.”
Now comes France's finest entry in the horror genre, Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage aka Eyes Without a Face (1960).
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Friday, September 6, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
Also on TCM’s agenda is the Neo-noir Bullitt (1968)
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Thursday, September 5, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
One of the Top Ten: World Cinema Treasures is The Battle of Algiers a.k.a. La battaglia di Algeri (1966).
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024
In Los Feliz (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Los Feliz 3 Theatre will present Titicut Follies (1967, as part of their ‘Frederick Wiseman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ series)
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
First up is Baby Face (1933), the Pre-Code sensation starring Barbara Stanwyck
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Monday, September 2, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the first half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Friday, August 30, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
“I love this dirty town.”
New York City’s vernacular never smelled sweeter than it does in 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success.
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Thursday, July 29, 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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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Currently available at Watch TCM (until August 29th):
Next up is Alfred Hitchcock's dazzling thriller, Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Tomorrow (early morning) on TCM:
Just letting viewers know that TCM will be showing Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
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Monday, August 26, 2024
Tomorrow on TCM:
Many of the films first listed as "Hidden Gems" are not so hidden anymore thanks to those companies releasing them on DVD and Blu-ray in addition to their regular showings on TCM. One of these is Hidden Gem #59, The Hill (1965)
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