Dish of the Day

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Currently available at Watch TCM (until August 28th):

"Complaining about the far-fetched circumstances in films noir is like objecting to the lack of realism in a Picasso painting. What I mean is that lovers of these criminally rich cinematic delights oughtn’t to bother picking out the implausibilities, since they are practically a hallmark of noir's style."

I've written this before when introducing Split Second (1953), a film noir that presents some rather unlikely occurring, but fascinating, situations.

Alexis Smith, Richard Egan

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Hope to see you tomorrow.

A.G.