"Now Listen to Me..."
Just some thoughts on current happenings:
Classic film screenings from around the world this July include:
The Third Man
In New York City, New York, Film Forum has held over (through Thursday, July 9)
The Third Man (1949, a Brand new 35mm print photochemically printed from original film elements)
Click on the movie image for more information and on the Film Forum banner for other motion pictures playing this month.
In Los Angeles, California The Beverly Cinema will present Heat (1995, a 35mm print) on Friday, July 3, Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5.
Click on the poster image for more information on this presentation. To see the rest of July’s schedule, click on The Beverly Cinema banner above.
In Hollywood (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The Vista Theater will present Jaws (1975, a 35mm print) on Friday, July 3, Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5 at 10 am only.
To discover more about the screening of Jaws or the other films playing this month at the Vista Theater, click on either of the above images.
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present Heat (1995, a 35mm print) Saturday, July 4, Thursday, July 23 and Friday, July 31, Mulholland Dr. (2001, a 35mm print) Tuesday, July 7 and Wednesday, July 22, The Red Shoes (1948, a 35mm print) Wednesday, July 8, Brief Encounter (1945, a 35mm print) Sunday, July 12, Harakiri (1962) Monday, July 13, The Ascent (1977) Tuesday, July 14, Troy (2004, a 35mm print) Friday, July 17, The Long Goodbye (1973, a 35mm print) Sunday, July 19, The Searchers (1956, a 70mm print) Saturday, July 25, Tuesday, July 28 and Friday, July 31, The Night of the Hunter (1955) Monday, July 27, and The Battle of Algiers (1966) on Tuesday, July 28.
* Note: Some of the showtimes are matinees only.
Click on the film’s respective image for more information. To see July’s complete programming, click on The Prince Charles Cinema banner above.
Some Like it Hot
In Valencia, Spain, Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca at the Edificio Rialto will present Some Like it Hot (1959, as part of their BILLY WILDER series) on Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5.
Click on the film’s image for more information on this screening. To discover more of July’s programming including other films playing in Valencia, Spain at the Edificio Rialto, Castelló, Spain at the Raval Theatre and the Paranimf of the Universitat Jaume I, and in Alicante Spain at the Arniches Theatre, click on the banner image above.
In theatres across the U.S. Flashback Cinema is presenting Jaws (1975) on Saturday, July 4, Sunday, July 5 and Wednesday, July 8.
Click on the poster image for more information on this screening. To see the entire month’s programming, click on The Flashback Cinema banner above.
The Searchers
Cleopatra
Inception
In Santa Monica (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Aero Theatre will present The Searchers (1956, a 70mm print, as part of their ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’ series, celebrating the film’s 70th Anniversary) Sunday, July 5, Cleopatra (1963, Rare archival 70mm print, as part of their ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’ series) Sunday, July 12, and Inception (2010, a 70mm print, as part of their ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’ series) on Tuesday, July 14.
* Note: Some of the showtimes are matinees only.
For more information on any of these programmes, click on the respective film image above. To see the entire month of July’s programming including other films showing at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, The Los Feliz 3 Theatre in Los Feliz (also part of greater Los Angeles), and the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood (also part of greater Los Angeles), click on the American Cinematheque banner.
In theatres across the U.S., Fathom Entertainment is presenting Citizen Kane (1941, an 85th Anniversary presentation) on Sunday, July 5 and Wednesday, July 8.
Click on the poster image for more information on this screening. To see more scheduling, click on The Fathom Events banner above.
In Culpeper Virginia, The Library of Congress at the James Madison Building, Pickford Theater is presenting The Swimmer (1968, a 35mm print) on Thursday, July 9.
Click on the poster image for more information on this film’s screening. To see the rest of July’s schedule, click on the Packard Campus image above.
Noir City will take place in New York, New York from July 10 - 19.
The programme reads:
The Paris Theater—Manhattan’s last remaining single-screen movie palace—is proud to present NOIR CITY: NEW YORK, from Friday, July 10 through Sunday, July 19. Co-presented with the Film Noir Foundation and hosted by its president, the legendary “Czar of Noir” Eddie Muller, NOIR CITY stands as the world’s premier annual celebration of film noir. After 23 years as a flagship event in the Bay Area—and expanding to acclaimed satellite festivals in Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and beyond– NOIR CITY: NEW YORK marks the festival’s long-awaited New York City debut, with a 10-day festival showcasing 32 feature films, with special in-person introductions, short films and an opening night musical performance by Elizabeth Bougerol.
From July 10 - 16, NOIR CITY: NEW YORK will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 16-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From early examples of Hollywood noir like Blues in the Night (1941) to jazz-fueled sixties’ gems like All Night Long (1962) and A Man Called Adam (1966), the movies feature genuine musical legends like Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr., Hoagy Carmichael, and Doris Day performing alongside film noir favorites including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Kirk Douglas, Ann Sheridan, and Rita Hayworth. Featuring: All Night Long • Black Angel • Blues in the Night* • The Crimson Canary* • Hangover Square • King Creole • Love Me or Leave Me • A Man Called Adam • The Man I Love • The Man With the Golden Arm* • Nora Prentiss • Sweet Smell of Success • To Have and Have Not* • The Yellow Canary • Young Man with a Horn
Additionally, NOIR CITY: NEW YORK will present ‘Dead End Streets,’ a collection of some of the genre’s all-time favorites, with special attention paid to noir set in New York. This section will include the East Coast premieres of new 4K Restorations of Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947) starring Robert Mitchum, and Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) featuring a memorably unsettling Peter Lorre – both restorations are from the films’ original nitrate camera negative. We’re also presenting noir greats Double Indemnity, In a Lonely Place, and Ace in the Hole, as well as New York-centric titles such as Killer’s Kiss, The Big Clock, Guilty Bystander and many more! Featuring: Ace in the Hole • The Big Clock • Blast of Silence • Cry of the City • Double Indemnity • Force of Evil • Guilty Bystander • In a Lonely Place • Killer's Kiss • Out of the Past • Phantom Lady • Pickup on South Street • Sorry, Wrong Number* • Stranger on the Third Floor • Touch of Evil • The Window*
*35mm print
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In Auckland, New Zealand, Academy Cinemas is presenting Mulholland Drive (2001, a 25th Anniversary presentation) on Saturday, July 11.
To obtain more information on this programme, click on the poster image. To see July’s complete schedule, click on the Academy banner above.
North by Northwest
In San Francisco, California, The Roxie Theatre will present North by Northwest (1959, a 35mm print, as part of their Fraenkel Film Festival) on Saturday, July 11.
For more information on this showing, click on the movie image above. For more information on the other films being presented at The Roxie, click on the theatre picture.
Planet of the Apes
In Lyon, France the Institut Lumiere is presenting Planet of the Apes (1968, as part of their SCIENCE FICTION series) on Sunday, July 12 at 2:30 pm only and Thursday, July 16.
Click on the film image above for more information on this screening. Click on the Institut logo for all of the films showing this month.
In Como (part of greater Perth) Western Australia, The Revival House will present Malcolm (1986, a 35mm print, a 40th Anniversary presentation) on Sunday, July 19 at 1 pm only.
Click on the poster image for more information on this screening. To see the other films showing this month, click on the theatre banner above.
In Sydney, Australia The Ritz Theatre will present Chinatown (1974, a 35mm print) on Friday, July 24.
Click on the film image for more information on this screening. For other films playing at The Ritz Theatre, click on the banner above.
FILM NOIR 2026
In Vancouver, British Columbia, The Cinematheque is presenting
FILM NOIR 2026
The programme reads:
“The most American film genre, because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear, and betrayal, unless it were essentially naïve and optimistic.”
Roger Ebert
Summer brings its usual dose of darkness to The Cinematheque courtesy of film noir, that irresistibly unsavoury school of mid-century American moviemaking defined by its emblematic aesthetics and obsession with bad behaviour.
This season, we’re drawing from the postwar catalogue to assemble a murderers’ row of eight gripping crime thrillers, each haunted in its own way by the tremors of WWII. Half of the films arrive in brand-new restorations, with perhaps Robert Siodmak’s unassailable 1946 classic The Killers the showpiece of the restored lineup. Of those noirs receiving premiere status in our series, none cast a shadow longer than They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray’s landmark debut and historically unbookable film this side of the border. To celebrate its overdue anointment, we’re juxtaposing it with New Hollywood heavyweight Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us, a dissimilarly great adaptation of the same source material. We also pay tribute to Marilyn Monroe, born a century ago this year, with screenings of her Technicolor noir Niagara, famous for elevating MM to Hollywood’s A‑list.
Our sidebar, meanwhile, detours to ’90s Japan for a trilogy of postmodern neo-noirs by Hayashi Kaizo. Each stars screen idol Nagase Masatoshi (Mystery Train) as private eye Maiku Hama, an ironic homage to the Mickey Spillane pulp antihero of, among others, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (also screening).
Join us on opening night for a ’50s-themed courtyard shindig before Niagara, featuring vinyl jazz, boozy beverages, and the latest drop of noir merchandise.
From July 30–August 27, 2026
Click on the respective image above for more information on the Film Noir series.
For all of the films scheduled this month at The Cinematheque, click on the theatre banner above.
These are the reviewed films showing on Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. this month:
My first recommendation is Robert Siodmak's expert 1949 film Criss Cross with Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo imbuing their characters with passion and complex individuality.
Criss Cross was previously reviewed here. It will cast its noirish spell on Friday, July 3 at 8 pm PDT.
TCM is bringing back Bringing Up Baby (1938) previously recommended here. "Baby" will be brought back and up on Sunday, July 5 at 9 am PDT.
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
Then there’s 1974's Freebie and the Bean. This is a cautious recommendation since it is one of my personal Top Ten Guilty Treasures and is about as non-P.C. as a film can get. Previously reviewed here, viewers can catch this pair’s highly irreverent act Monday, July 6 at 6:30 am PDT.
(From left) Alan Arkin, James Caan
A pre-code charmer sure to delight fans is Blonde Crazy (1931) with Jimmy Cagney and Joan Blondell enchanting as a couple of cons. This recommendation was previously made here and will appear Tuesday, July 7 at 9:15 am PDT.
Joan Blondell, James Cagney
Bad Day at Black Rock, reviewed here, is 1955's modern-day take on the American Western. This exceptional day will take place Thursday, July 9 at 6:30 am PDT.
(From left) Russell Collins, Walter Brennan, Spencer Tracy (seated), Dean Jagger, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
TCM is making available to its subscribers, one of film noir's finest, 1950’s Gun Crazy, previously reviewed here. Noir's most distinguishing feature, a focus on the criminal participants' psychology, marks a major shift regarding motive. In the earlier "gangster" films, money and power provided enough reason for the pursuit of illegal gains whereas in noir, the internal cause behind the action is paramount, and runs so much deeper... and darker. The dark deeds will ensue Friday, July 10 at 7 pm PDT.
Peggy Cummins, John Dall
Also on TCM’s agenda is the Neo-noir Bullitt (1968), one of Steve McQueen’s most iconic characterisations. Reviewed here, Bullitt will speed its way onto TCM Saturday, July 11 at 2:45 pm PDT.
A John Huston directed motion picture, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is indeed an unforgettable American treasure and a prior TCM recommendation here. Its cinematic storytelling riches can be uncovered on TCM Saturday, July 11 at 5 pm PDT.
Stanley Kubrick took the entire film community, along with noir fans, by (a perfect) storm with his innovative 1956 take on the caper genre, The Killing, previously recommended here. "The best-laid plans..." will be presented on TCM Saturday, July 11 at 7:15 pm PDT and again on Friday, July 24 at 9 pm PDT.
That's actually Rodney Dangerfield in the crowd (Standing on the ground, second from the right).
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. Its abundant creativity, innovation and driving energy place this film at the top of all musicals ever produced. Singin' in the Rain has been reviewed here as a Blu-ray selection and will dance its way onto TCM Monday, July 13 at 8 am PDT.
From 1968 is one of the horror genre’s most influential entries: George A. Romero’s cult classic Night of the Living Dead, a previous TCM recommendation here. The night to watch out for is Tuesday, July 14 at 10 pm PDT.
This will be a really bad day for anyone who encounters Them! (the giant mutant ants that is). The motion picture, however, is an exhilarating creature feature, previously reviewed here. Them! will march on TCM Thursday, July 16 at 8 pm PDT.
Joan Weldon, Nuclear Mutated Ant
Stirling Hayden does not portray the criminal mastermind (that honour goes to actor Sam Jaffe) in this next TCM recommendation: The Asphalt Jungle (1950), previously recommended here. His role, however, in a bold and daring jewel heist, is crucial both as a participating character and to the drama itself. The score will take place Friday, July 17 at 5 pm PDT.
(From left) Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, Anthony Caruso, James Whitmore
Immediately following The Asphalt Jungle (1950), stay tuned for Nicholas Ray's character study In a Lonely Place released the same year. This is another highly probative film noir with Humphrey Bogart perfectly cast as Dixon Steele whose unpredictable explosions of anger make him a prime suspect for the killing of a young ingénue. It was previously recommended here and will be investigated Friday, July 17 at 7 pm PDT.
(From left) Humphrey Bogart, Don Hamin
After directing the stylish and innovative 1956 heist film The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, with the assistance of Producer James B. Harris, turned his extraordinary talents to more relevant material with Paths of Glory (1957), previously reviewed here. The results were astonishing. U.S. TCM subscribers can discover for themselves (updated) Saturday, July 18 at 11 am PDT.
(From left) Timothy Carey, Ralph Meeker, Joe Turkel
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 down Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley Saturday, July 18 at 9:15 pm PDT and again on Sunday, July 19 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).
From the same director who brought us Citizen Kane comes another kind of cinematic hero (of sorts). Michael O'Hara, who like the deeply flawed Kane, is flawlessly played by his creator Orson Welles. Unlike Citizen Kane however, this film fell under its producer Harry Cohn's butchery with considerable footage lost and destroyed forever. Nevertheless, what survives is vastly entertaining and not to be missed. The Lady from Shanghai was previously recommended here and will arrive at TCM Sunday, July 19 at 3:15 pm PDT.
Next up is filmmaker David Lynch’s first feature-length film, the surrealistic Eraserhead (1977) previously reviewed here. This nightmarish “Bringing up Baby” will begin Wednesday, July 22 at (early morning) 12:45 am PDT.
Jack Nance
The more psychologically disturbing, (than monstrously horrifying) 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has Spencer Tracy in the title role. This was previously critiqued here. The Dr. will begin his transformation Thursday, July 23 at 3 am PDT.
I have more to say on Spencer Tracy’s performance, compared to a few others who have played the same part, in an article seen here.
Spencer Tracy
Also in this month’s lineup is Todd Browning's shockingly bold and terrifying 1932 film, Freaks, previously reviewed here. They will appear on TCM Thursday, July 23 at 10 am PDT and again Wednesday, July 29 at 9:15 am PDT.
Rarely does an atmosphere of such overpowering dread subsume a cinematic story so completely as it does 1943's The Seventh Victim. A young woman (portrayed as a fetching innocent by Kim Hunter) goes searching for her missing sister (enigmatically played by Jean Brooks) in New York City's Greenwich Village and stumbles upon a satanic cult of devil worshipers, putting both of their lives at risk. Mark Robson, who directed a number of these Val Lewton produced gems, is himself at the peak of his considerable creative powers. This devilishly striking combination of horror and film noir was a previous TCM recommendation here and will occur Thursday, July 23 at 12:30 pm PDT.
Jean Brooks
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a devoted wife trying to save her husband (played by Barry Sullivan) but equally determined to match wits against killer Ralph Meeker in order to do so, in the previously recommended (here) noir, 1953's Jeopardy. This life or death struggle will commence Friday, July 24 at 3:15 am PDT.
Ralph Meeker, Barbara Stanwyck
Here is another film noir with a central character whose emotions have apparently consumed his common sense and compromised his moral integrity: The Prowler (1951), previously reviewed here. Be on TCM’s watch Friday, July 24 at 7 pm PDT.
Evelyn Keyes, Van Heflin
Still another film noir made during the classic time period, is Hidden Gem #10, They Won't Believe Me (1947), with its fascinating, twisted plot and antithetically noir central character. This was my very first entry (linked here) for the Cinema Cafe Site with some kind words from the "Czar of Noir" himself, Eddie Muller, in the comments section below the review. If you're a TCM noir fan and haven't seen this unusual motion picture, please believe me, you don't want to miss this major opportunity. My last TCM recommendation this month will emerge from the shadows in Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley Saturday, July 25 at 9:45 pm PDT and again on Sunday, July 26 at 7 am PDT.
Jane Greer, Robert Young
Early Sunday morning, TCM will present another film noir starring Humphrey Bogart. Despite its ridiculously hard to follow plot, this film's wildly entertaining detective yarn is worth waking up for.
Previously reviewed here, The Big Sleep (1946) will awaken Sunday, July 26 at 5 am PDT.
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Louis Jean Heydt
TCM's current monthly schedule can be confirmed by clicking on any of the above TCM related 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.
(To be continued… ) A.G.