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Dish of the Day

February 26, 2025  /  Arthur Grant

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

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until February 28th):

“The mattress is soft and there're hangers in the closet and stationary with ‘Bates' Motel’ printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious.”

Still another Hitchcock artistic triumph was, at the time (including throughout its primary creator’s career), the most audacious cinematic assault ever perpetrated on the movie going public or the Motion Picture Production Code for that matter. 1960's Psycho

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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)

February 21, 2025  /  Arthur Grant


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


Friday, February 21, 2025


In New York City, New York, Film Forum is presenting as part of their ‘Tales from the New Yorker’ series, The Swimmer (1968)

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tags / Film musings, TCM Recommendations, Chariots of Fire (1981), Film Forum New York City, The Swimmer (1968), The Library of Congress Culpeper Virginia, Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Dish of the Day

February 11, 2025  /  Arthur Grant

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

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Tonight 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?,

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Dish of the Day

February 05, 2025  /  Arthur Grant

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

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until February 17th):

If I was in charge of choosing a single film noir for someone only willing to see one in the entire canon, I would select Double Indemnity (1944) as its most fulfilling and accomplished representative.

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"Now Listen to Me... "

February 04, 2025  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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tags / The Prince Charles Cinema London U.K., Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca, The Beverly Cinema Los Angeles, Fathom Events, The Astor Theatre Melbourne, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, Institut Lumiere Lyon France, Cinemateket i Bergen Bergen Norway, Film Forum New York City, The Vista Theater Los Angeles, The Revival House Como Western Australia, Flashback Cinema, The Redford Theatre Detroit, Noir City Seattle, The Roxie Theatre San Francisco, The Cinematheque Vancouver, The American Cinematheque Los Angeles, The Library of Congress Culpeper Virginia, TCM Recommendations, Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Double Indemnity (1944), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Casablanca (1942), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Bullitt (1968), The Last Picture Show (1971), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Chariots of Fire (1981), The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Psycho (1960), Tess (1979), Sidney J Furie, Rain Man (1988) (Soundtrack)