Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday May 3, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
Dark Passage (1947) is a wildly engrossing film noir that combines the best of romance with the best of noir in the best location for both: San Francisco. Previously endorsed as a Blu-Ray release here, Bogart will make his dark (rite of) passage in Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley on Saturday, May 4 at 9:15 pm PDT and again on Sunday, May 5 at 7 am PDT.
That’s Humphrey Bogart as Vincent Parry standing at the crossroads of Greenwich Street (behind him leading to Coit Tower) and Hyde where he will soon board the Hyde cable car. This will take him to its final stop: the turntable turnaround at Powell Street and Market (seen below).
After directing Colorado Territory, Raoul Walsh’s very next film retained all of that film’s energy and even added some for White Heat (1949), previously reviewed here. TCM's screen will heat up Sunday, May 5 at 7:15 pm PDT.
TCM's current monthly schedule can be confirmed by clicking on any of the above images. For those who live in parts of the U.S. other than the western region, the time zone can be adjusted in the upper right-hand corner of TCM's programme.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Today on TCM:
Otto Preminger’s directed classic, 1944’s Laura, is the exacting director’s slick and assured amalgamation of mystery (whodunnit) and film noir (obsessive desire, gruesome murder etc) elements.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, April 29, 2024
In Los Feliz (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Los Feliz 3 Theatre will present The Manchurian Candidate(1962, as part of their CINEMATIC VOID series)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until April 29th):
One of director David Lean’s more ambitious projects may have turned out less artistically accomplished than its director intended. Still, it has many attributes making Doctor Zhivago (1965) well worth seeing.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Just a reminder that in Hollywood (part of greater Los Angeles), California TCM is having its annual ClassicFilm Festival Thursday, April 18 to Sunday, April 21.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Today (early morning) 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).
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, April 12, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
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.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, April 11, 2024
In Culpeper Virginia, The Library of Congress at the Packard Campus Theater is presenting Double Indemnity (1944, a 35mm print, an 80th Anniversary screening)
