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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
Next up is Baby Face (1933), the Pre-Code sensation starring Barbara Stanwyck, reviewed here, and making her spirited appearance on Wednesday, March 18 at 3:30 pm PDT.
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Thursday, March 12, 2026
Today on TCM:
A true romance film and of the highest artistic calibre has been reviewed in Opening Up a Treasure: Brief Encounter (1945).
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
TCM will present a film starring Burt Lancaster, director John Frankenheimer’s action-packed and thought provoking The Train (1964), a previous Blu-ray recommendation here.
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Friday, March 6, 2026
This weekend on TCM:
Besieged with production problems, the film sometimes wrongfully criticised because of them, this next TCM recommendation is, nevertheless, an accomplished and splendorous piece of dramatically dynamic adventure storytelling: the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, reviewed here and showing on TCM Saturday, March 7th at 7:30 pm PST.
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Thursday, March 5, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
This next must-see TCM film recommendation is Italian director Vittorio De Sica's neo-realist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (1948), one of the most emotionally devastating films of all time (See: Top Ten: World Cinema Treasures).
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Today on TCM:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is an incisive look into how each of three returning servicemen adapt to civilian life at home after World War II.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) has Humphrey Bogart portraying perhaps his darkest and most psychologically troubled character.
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Thursday, February 26, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
In my review of Casablanca, I made some criticism regarding its emotionally underwhelming Parisian flashback. Prior to this film, however, Casablanca's producer Hal Wallis and one of its contributing writers, Casey Robinson, made Now, Voyager (1942) where the romance witnessed from start to finish comes alive with fervour, maturity and elegance.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
What better way for film lovers to celebrate cinema's diversity after watching a serious drama like the previous selection, than to partake in the light-hearted, almost make-believe world of a Princess' Roman Holiday (1953)?
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
The more psychologically disturbing, (than monstrously horrifying) 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has Spencer Tracy in the title role. This was previously critiqued here.
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Friday, February 20, 2026
This weekend on TCM:
Next is David Lean’s magnificent 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia which will appear Saturday, February 21 at 8:30 am PST.
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