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Thursday, September 17, 2026
Today on TCM:
Immediately following Armored Car Robbery is another film noir bonafide classic directed by Richard Fleischer: The Narrow Margin (1952), a previous TCM recommendation here.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
“Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride... the naked and the dead.”
Next up is Richard Fleischer’s little powder keg of a film noir Armored Car Robbery (1950), previously recommended here and set to explode Thursday, September 17 at 11 am PDT.
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Friday, September 11, 2026
This weekend 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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Thursday, September 10, 2026
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, previously reviewed here and happening again Thursday, September 10 at 10 am PDT.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Today on TCM:
In 1966, one of the more challenging films to face off against the Production Code (mentioned in Exploring the Artefacts #3: Code Breakers) was that year’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, reviewed here, remarkably delivering all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own.
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Friday, September 4, 2026
Saturday (September 5th) on TCM:
Make way for the rapturous Stanley Donen directed musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), reviewed here, Saturday, September 5th at 9 am PDT.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Currently available at Watch TCM (until September 5th):
Next up is a “Street” 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, previously reviewed here.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2026
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present The Godfather Part III aka The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990) on Tuesday, September 1st at 8:35 pm.
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Monday, August 31, 2026
Currently available at Watch TCM (until September 1st):
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is an incisive look into how each of three returning servicemen adapt to civilian life at home after World War II.
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Friday, August 28, 2026
Sunday (August 30th) on TCM:
Beginning a highly recommended series of 4 films starring Joel McCrea is…
… Sullivan's Travels (1941). Preston Sturges masterfully wrote and directed Sullivan's Travels, a prior Blu-ray endorsement here.
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Thursday, August 27, 2026
Today 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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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Today 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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Monday, August 24, 2026
Today on TCM:
Director Otto Preminger’s 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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Friday, August 21, 2026
Today and this weekend on TCM:
Stanley Kubrick took the entire film community, along with noir fans, by (a perfect) storm with his innovative 1956 take on the caper genre, The Killing previously recommended here.
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