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October 09, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

This month's column is apologetically late due to my extensive travelling.

Just some thoughts on this month’s happenings:

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tags / The Prince Charles Cinema London U.K., Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca, The Stanford Theatre Palo Alto, The Vista Theater Los Angeles, The American Cinematheque Los Angeles, Noir City D.C., The Astor Theatre Melbourne, The Cinematheque Vancouver, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, The Beverly Cinema Los Angeles, The Redford Theatre Detroit, The Library of Congress Culpeper Virginia, Film Forum New York City, Fathom Events, The Cinemateket i Bergen, Flashback Cinema, The Roxie Theatre San Francisco, The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, TCM Recommendations, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Bullitt (1968), Point Blank (1967), Get Carter (1971), Crime Wave (1953), Village of the Damned (1960), Too Late for Tears (1949), Johnny Eager (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Brief Encounter (1945), Cleopatra (1963), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Citizen Kane (1941), Cape Fear (1962), Nora Prentiss (1947), The Seventh Victim (1943), Psycho (1960), Blue Velvet (1986), Freaks (1932), The Other (1972), The Other (1972) (Soundtrack)

Dish of the Day

October 07, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

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

Monday, October 7, 2024

Currently available at Watch TCM (until October 15th):

After her breakthrough role in Joseph von Sternberg's The Blue Angel, made in Germany, Marlene Dietrich made six more films with the autocratic director in the U.S. The Scarlet Empress,

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tags / Film musings, Watch TCM, The Scarlet Empress (1934)

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September 19, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

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

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Tomorrow on TCM:

Some cinephiles take aim at those films identified as film noir if their stories’ setting occur during an earlier time than the classic period (1940 - 1959) in which they were made. They insist that this alone would disqualify a film from being categorised as such, even though the dark criminal surroundings and emphasis on character motive are present and accounted for. The Tall Target is such an example and for myself, joins other so called “period noirs” that are rightfully embraced in the film noir canon.

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tags / Film musings, TCM Recommendations, The Tall Target (1951), The Narrow Margin (1952)

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September 17, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

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

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Tonight on TCM:

My next TCM recommendation for the month is, for many experts, the final film noir released during the classification's classic time period (1940 - 1959), Orson Welles' stylistically assertive Touch of Evil (1958).  

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tags / Film musings, TCM Recommendations, Touch of Evil (1958)

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September 10, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

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

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

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

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tags / Film musings, TCM Recommendations, The Set-Up (1949), Impact (1949)

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September 04, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

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

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

In Los Feliz (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Los Feliz 3 Theatre will present Titicut Follies (1967, as part of their ‘Frederick Wiseman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ series)

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tags / Film musings, Titicut Follies (1967), The American Cinematheque Los Angeles, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), The Astor Theatre Melbourne

"Now Listen to Me..."

September 01, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on this month’s happenings:

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tags / The Cinematheque Vancouver, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, The Prince Charles Cinema London U.K., The American Cinematheque Los Angeles, The Astor Theatre Melbourne, The Vista Theater Los Angeles, The Beverly Cinema Los Angeles, Noir City Chicago, The Library of Congress Culpeper Virginia, The Roxie Theatre San Francisco, Cinemateket i Bergen Bergen Norway, Film Forum New York City, Fathom Events, Noir City Detroit, Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca, Flashback Cinema, The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (Canada), TCM Recommendations, Baby Face (1933), The Battle of Algiers a.k.a. La battaglia di Algeri (1966), Bullitt (1968), Out of the Past (1947), Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face) (1960), The Set-Up (1949), Impact (1949), Casablanca (1942), The Seventh Victim (1943), Ride the High Country (1962), The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), White Heat (1949), Now Voyager (1942), The Tall Target (1951), The Narrow Margin (1952), Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) aka The Bicycle Thief, Split Second (1953), The Learning Tree (1969), Them! (1954), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Kelly's Heroes (1970), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Colorado Territory (1949), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Vertigo (1958), Sophia Loren, The Getaway (1972) (Soundtrack)