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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Today on TCM:
My next TCM recommendation for the month is, for many experts, the final film noir released during the classification's classic time period (1940 - 1959), Orson Welles' stylistically assertive Touch of Evil.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Today on TCM:
The next TCM recommendation has been reviewed in Opening Up a Treasure: The Night of the Hunter.
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Monday, October 9, 2023
Today at 12 midnight PDT (technically 12 am PDT Tuesday morning) on TCM:
This is one of film noir's finest, 1950’s Gun Crazy,
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Sunday, October 8, 2023
Today on TCM:
Espionage fans should have a look through 1965’s The Ipcress File,
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Saturday, October 7, 2023
Today on TCM:
James Garner, Rod Taylor and Eva Marie Saint star in the intriguing “Mission Impossible” prototype espionage thriller 36 Hours (1964),
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Friday, October 6, 2023
Today on TCM:
The more psychologically disturbing, (than monstrously horrifying) 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Thursday, October 5, 2023
Today on TCM:
Next is Top Ten Westerns #1: the explosively confrontational The Wild Bunch (1969).
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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Today on TCM:
1958’s The Big Country is a film I have scribed a few words on
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Currently available on Watch TCM (but only until the end of today)…
… is a film reviewed in Opening Up a Treasure: The Night of the Hunter.
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Monday, October 2, 2023
Currently available on Watch TCM:
TCM is making available to its subscribers Hidden Gem #59, The Hill (1965)
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Sunday, October 1, 2023
Already posted to the CC site is the first half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Saturday, September 30, 2023
Recently added to September’s “Now Listen to Me…” column is a review of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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Friday, September 29, 2023
This weekend on TCM:
Dark Passage (1947) is a wildly engrossing film noir
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Thursday, September 28, 2023
Today on TCM:
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?
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Today on TCM:
Also in this month’s lineup is Todd Browning's shockingly bold and terrifying 1932 film, Freaks,
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Recently posted to the CC site is >>> End Credits #105 <<<,
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Monday, September 25, 2023
Currently available on Watch TCM:
TCM is making available to its subscribers, one of the most astute explorations of small town American life, 1971’s The Last Picture Show,
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Friday, September 22, 2023
Today on TCM:
The multi-talented Gordon Parks made his directorial debut at age 57 with 1969's The Learning Tree
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Thursday, September 21, 2023
Today on TCM:
TCM is showing Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Today on TCM:
“I love this dirty town.”
New York City’s vernacular never smelled sweeter than it does in 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success.
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