Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, November 15, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
This next TCM recommendation is made for its John Williams composed score more than anything else. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) has been reviewed here, and will be shown Saturday, November 16 at 12:30 pm PST.
Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond
“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 was previously reviewed here. The terror will begin Saturday, November 16 at 3 pm PST.
Although starting out as quite the common man, circumstances will turn this rather nondescript accountant played by Edmond O'Brien, into a kind of noir superhero in D.O.A. (1950) previously recommended here. This "dead man running" will seek justice with a vengeance on TCM Sunday, November 17 at 8:45 am PST.
One of director John Frankenheimer’s more accomplished films is Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), reviewed here as part of our “Dish of the Day” series, and arriving at TCM Sunday, November 17 at 10:15 am PST.
Burt Lancaster, “little runt” (sparrow)
TCM's current monthly schedule can be seen by clicking on any of the above images. To confirm the correct Pacific Daylight (West Coast) showtime information, subtract 3 hours from the Eastern Daylight (East Coast) showtime listed on TCM’s schedule.
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Hope to see you tomorrow.
A.G.