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Monday, May 19, 2025
Today on TCM:
Out of Africa is another Academy Award Winning film from the ‘80s (1985 to be exact) that I have been rather critical of.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
Tonight on TCM:
Don't miss Nicholas Ray's character study In a Lonely Place (1950) with Humphrey Bogart perfectly cast as Dixon Steele whose unpredictable explosions of anger make him a prime suspect for the killing of a young ingénue.
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
Tonight on TCM:
Top Ten Western #8 High Noon (1952), is a simple but tightly constructed narrative, one of the few that unravels almost completely in real time.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
From the same director who brought us Citizen Kane comes another kind of cinematic hero (of sorts). Michael O'Hara, like the deeply flawed Kane, is flawlessly played by his creator Orson Welles. Unlike Citizen Kane however, this film fell under its producer Harry Cohn's butchery with considerable footage lost and destroyed forever. Nevertheless, what survives is vastly entertaining and not to be missed. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) was also previously recommended here and will reappear on TCM Thursday, May 15 at 3:30 pm PDT.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until May 24th):
“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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Monday, May 12, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until May 17th):
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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Friday, May 9, 2025
Today on TCM:
From 1968 is Hidden Gem #1, essayed in a less analytical and more personal fashion in Inspecting Hidden Gem #1: The Swimmer.
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
Today on TCM:
Just missing out on my list of Top Ten Westerns (in favour of another Bud Boetticher directed/Burt Kennedy scripted film The Tall T) was Ride Lonesome (1959), a highly distinctive and concise story told with a strong sense of purpose and sophistication.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Next is one of the western genre's finest and another excellent pairing of star James Stewart with director Anthony Mann: 1955’s The Man from Laramie.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until May 27th):
TCM is presenting an unequivocal masterpiece and one of Cinema's greatest artistic achievements: Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis) (1945).
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Monday, May 5, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until May 10th):
In the U.K. town of Midwich, strange children with mysterious origins are behaving badly. Find out just how bad when viewing the chilling Village of the Damned (1960), previously reviewed here.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
TCM is showing Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) on Thursday, May 1st at 11 am PDT and again on Saturday, May 17th at 1 pm PDT.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s more uncustomary, yet distinguished, offerings is 1953’s I Confess previously reviewed here, featuring a fervent, introspective performance from Montgomery Clift.
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Monday, April 28, 2025
In Bergen, Norway The Cinemateket i Bergen will present Eraserhead (1977) on Tuesday, April 29th at 6 pm.
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Friday, April 25, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
Here is another film noir with a central character whose emotions have apparently consumed his common sense and compromised his moral integrity: The Prowler (1951), previously reviewed here.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
In Vancouver, British Columbia, The Cinematheque continues with
TWO MEXICAN MASTERWORKS BY LUIS BUNUEL consisting of Los olvidados a.k.a. The Young and the Damned (1950, a New restoration) and Él a.k.a. This Strange Passion (1953, a New restoration) from April 18 - May 1.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
In Auckland, New Zealand, Academy Cinemas is presenting Ace in the Hole (1951) Thursday, April 24th at 3:45 pm.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Despite its ridiculously hard to follow plot, this next recommendation's wildly entertaining detective yarn is worth waking up for.
Previously reviewed here, The Big Sleep (1946) will awaken Wednesday, April 23 at 9:45 am PDT.
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