Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Today on TCM:
Next up is Alfred Hitchcock's dazzling thriller, Foreign Correspondent (1940), previously reviewed here. His main character’s precarious globe trotting assignment will begin Thursday, March 7 at 8:45 am PST.
(From left) Some guy reading a newspaper, Joel McCrea
Recently in a Facebook film chat room someone asked which film was better, Casablanca or Citizen Kane. This caused me to think about their differences, more specifically their varied approach to dramatic storytelling, to which I responded:
"I think Casablanca for many, has a far more instantly recognisable appeal, including its characters some of whom possess highly emulative qualities. Its emotional pleas are up front and easy to assimilate. Citizen Kane has more complexity, flawed characters who are invested in the past, relationships that are changing and developing, mostly in a tragic way. Casablanca ends with heroic sacrifice and optimism. Kane is dire and ultimately about loss. Casablanca's highlights remind one of its pleasures, immediate and gratifying. Kane is a deeply contemplative journey, requiring a significant investment of thoughtful consideration on the viewer's part in order to uncover its enormous wealth of profound insight into human relations."
Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore
Both films are showing on TCM this month: Citizen Kane, earlier in March and previously recommended here, and Casablanca (1942), reviewed here, the latter which will show Thursday, March 7 at 5 pm PST.
Out of Africa, like Platoon, is another Academy Award Winning film from the ‘80s (1985 to be exact) that I have been rather critical of. Like Platoon and the following TCM selection Rain Man, my observations can be found here, in Part 2 of an article entitled “How Quentin Tarantino’s ‘One of the Worst Decades in Hollywood…’ Was Actually One of Its Greatest.” Out of Africa will be presented on Thursday, March 7 at 7 pm PST.
Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
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Hope to see you tomorrow.
A.G.