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Dish of the Day (A Long Good Friday Edition)

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

Friday, July 5, 2024

This weekend on TCM:

This next TCM recommendation is made for its John Williams composed score more than anything else. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) has been reviewed here

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Dish of the Day

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

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Currently available on Watch TCM (until July 12th):

Many experts have claimed that this next TCM recommendation is the first identifiable film noir made in the U.S. and released during the category's classic time period (1940 - 1959): Boris Ingster's 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor.

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Dish of the Day

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

Monday, July 1, 2024

Already posted to the CC site is the first half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column containing news of various classic film screenings happening in theatres around the world and the first 15 (out of 30) recommended movies to watch this month on TCM.

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"Now Listen to Me..."

Just some thoughts on this month’s happenings:

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Dish of the Day

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

Monday, June 24, 2024

Currently available on Watch TCM (until July 1st):

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951), previously reviewed here, may sound like some forgotten Douglas Sirk melodrama but certainly has its fair share of film noir qualifications delivered with assuredness by director Felix Feist.

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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)

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

Friday, June 14, 2024

This weekend 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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Dish of the Day

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

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Currently available on Watch TCM (until June 14th):

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

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

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Tomorrow (early morning) on TCM:

Many experts have claimed that this next TCM recommendation is the first identifiable film noir made in the U.S. and released during the category's classic time period (1940 - 1959): Boris Ingster's 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor.

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