Dish of the Day (A Long Good Friday Edition)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, February 23, 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. This film was briefly reviewed here. Included is a comparison between the detective played by Dana Andrews and James Stewart’s retired investigator in Vertigo. Laura will come to life on TCM Friday, February 23 at 5 pm PST.
A motion picture from the ‘80s that approaches a most incendiary social issue and historical tragedy in typical Hollywood (dramatically forced) fashion is Mississippi Burning (1988) reviewed here, and is playing Friday, February 23 at 8:30 pm PST.
(From left) Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe
On TCM Sunday, February 25th
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. Let the “games” begin Sunday, February 25 at 11:15 pm PST.
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
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Hope to see you Monday, February 26th.
A.G.