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Dish of the Day

June 19, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Monday, June 19, 2023

Today on TCM:

“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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Dish of the Day

June 08, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Today on TCM:

"Complaining about the far-fetched circumstances in films noir is like objecting to the lack of realism in a Picasso painting. What I mean is that lovers of these criminally rich cinematic delights oughtn’t to bother picking out the implausibilities, since they are practically a hallmark of noir's style."

I've written this before when introducing Split Second (1953),

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"Now Listen to Me..."

May 31, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on this month’s happenings:

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tags / Film Forum New York City, The Beverly Cinema, American Cinematheque, The Astor Theatre Melbourne, Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca, The Prince Charles Cinema, Fathom Events, The Cinemateket i Bergen, Noir City Boston, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, Flashback Cinema, Secret Movie Club, The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, TCM Recommendations, Bringing Up Baby (1938), Out of the Past (1947), Pillow Talk (1959), Colorado Territory (1949), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Split Second (1953), Ikiru (1952), The Cinematheque Vancouver, In a Lonely Place (1950), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967), The Los Angeles Conservancy, Intruder in the Dust (1949), Pitfall (1948), Sullivan's Travels (1941), Vertigo (1958), Rope (1948), Victim (1961), The Unsuspected (1947), D.O.A. (1950), James Newton Howard, Primal Fear (1996) (Soundtrack)