Dish of the Day (A Long Good Friday Edition)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, May 12, 2023
Today on TCM:
A film well worth seeing is Network (1976),
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
Today on TCM:
In the U.K. town of Midwich, strange children with mysterious origins are behaving badly. Find out just how bad when the chilling Village of the Damned (1960)
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
In this series, I’ll briefly compare Director’s Cuts on various films to their Theatrical Releases.
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Today on TCM:
Preston Sturges' masterpiece Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Monday, May 8, 2023
Today on TCM:
For those who enjoy the best in creative romantic comedy, be sure to tune in for Pillow Talk
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Sunday, May 7, 2023
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
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Saturday, May 6, 2023
Today on TCM:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) has Humphrey Bogart portraying perhaps his darkest and most psychologically troubled character.
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Friday, May 5, 2023
Today on TCM:
The multi-talented Gordon Parks made his directorial debut at age 57 with 1969's The Learning Tree based on his semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
Today, in our Facebook chat room (all readers are welcome to join here), a member asked: “Whose acting style do you like the most among these 3 fine actresses…
… Huppert, Winslet or Blanchett?”
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Today’s “Dish of the Day” has a review of 2002’s Minority Report, inspired by a post in one of the film related Facebook chat rooms. This includes the Cinema Cafe group (all readers are encouraged to join here).
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Just posted to the CC site is the second and remaining half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Monday, May 1, 2023
Just posted to the CC site is the first half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Friday, April 28, 2023
In this series, I’ll briefly compare Director’s Cuts on various films to their Theatrical Releases.
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
“Which one is he playing now?” (Acclaimed writer Somerset Maugham visiting the set of MGM’s 1941 remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Spencer Tracy).
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Recently, in our Facebook chat room (all readers are welcome to join here), someone posted a piece on author James Ellroy’s dissatisfaction with the 1997 film L.A. Confidential made from his 1990 novel.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Recently, in our Facebook chat room (all readers are welcome to join here), a member asked who, famous or unknown, critic or fan, might have seen the most films in his/her lifetime…
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Monday, April 24, 2023
Today’s “Dish of the Day” was inspired by a recent post in our Facebook chat room (all readers are welcome to join here). For more than several years now whenever TCM shows Now, Voyager (1942), I post my review. Casablanca was released later that year and since it shares some of the same important artists who contributed to the making of Now, Voyager, I reference that film as well.
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
Today’s “Dish of the Day” was inspired by a recent post in our Facebook chat room (all readers are welcome to join here). A member correctly noted that the film Rio Bravo (1959), directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, was reported to have been made partly in response to what the duo found objectionable in High Noon (1952).
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