Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, July 21, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until August 11th):
TCM is having a rare showing of The Gangster (1947).
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, July 18, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until July 21st):
One of Sidney Poitier’s most persuasive film roles occurs in the lesser known but exceptional cold war thriller The Bedford Incident: Hidden Gem #32 and previously recommended here.
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Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Next is Strange Cargo which I previously listed as one of my TOP TEN Guilty Treasures.
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Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, July 14, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until July 15th):
… is David Lean’s magnificent 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, July 11, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
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 (1934), previously reviewed here, is arguably the duo’s most accomplished.
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Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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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? (reviewed here) remarkably delivering all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Today on TCM:
Next up is the remarkably understated, albeit compelling, racial drama Intruder in the Dust released in 1949.
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Just some thoughts on current happenings:
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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, July 4, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
1972's The Getaway is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films; still, as a genre piece, it punches solidly above its pay grade.
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Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Today on TCM:
Next on my list of films to watch is King Kong (1933), who's scheduled to make his grand entrance on Tuesday, July 1st at 1 pm PDT.
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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 27, 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) reviewed here.
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
A pre-code charmer sure to delight fans is Blonde Crazy (1931) with Jimmy Cagney and Joan Blondell enchanting as a couple of cons.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until June 29th):
From the same director who brought us Citizen Kane comes another kind of cinematic hero (of sorts). Michael O'Hara, like the deeply flawed Kane, is flawlessly played by his creator Orson Welles. Unlike Citizen Kane however, this film fell under its producer Harry Cohn's butchery with considerable footage lost and destroyed forever. Nevertheless, what survives is vastly entertaining and not to be missed. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) was previously recommended here.
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