Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, April 7, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Stanley Kubrick took the entire film community, along with noir fans, by (a perfect) storm with his innovative 1956 take on the caper genre, The Killing previously recommended here.
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Friday, April 4, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
A film noir bonafide classic is 1952’s The Narrow Margin.
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
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MGM's 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain was not adapted from a theatrical production, though the film was later turned into one, being first presented on stage in 1983.
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Friday, March 28, 2025
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I previously wrote about MGM contract actor Robert Taylor appearing in a startling number of well crafted films when writing about 1941’s Johnny Eager. He also starred alongside some of Hollywood’s hottest leading ladies including Lana Turner in the aforementioned film and Ava Gardner in The Bribe (1949)
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Thursday, March 27, 2025
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present In a Lonely Place (1950, a 35mm print)
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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This next film to see is Fritz Lang’s 1952 Clash by Night
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Monday, March 24, 2025
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1967's Hotel was taken, like 1970's Airport, from a novel by Arthur Hailey and is the far better crafted of the two films.
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Friday, March 21, 2025
Today on TCM:
One of cinema’s most quintessential performances can be seen in 1947’s Possessed by the film’s star Joan Crawford.
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
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Barbara Stanwyck stars as a devoted wife trying to save her husband (played by Barry Sullivan) but equally determined to match wits against killer Ralph Meeker in order to do so, in the previously recommended (here) film noir, 1953's Jeopardy.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
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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Friday, March 14, 2025
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1972's The Getaway, is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
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TCM is presenting another top Preston Sturges classic, Remember the Night (1940)
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Today on TCM:
A top of the line screwball comedy released the same year as Sullivan’s Travels and, even more remarkably, from the same writer (co-writer here along with Monckton Hoffe) / director is The Lady Eve (1941)
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s more uncustomary, yet distinguished, offerings is 1953’s I Confess
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