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Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, May 1, 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.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Today on TCM:
"And then I saw her - coming out of the sun. And I knew why Whit didn't care about that 40 grand."
Out of the Past (1947) is one of film noir's finest and most highly recommended here.
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Monday, April 29, 2024
In Los Feliz (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Los Feliz 3 Theatre will present The Manchurian Candidate (1962, as part of their CINEMATIC VOID series)
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Friday April 26, 2024
Tonight on TCM:
Dustin Hoffman’s breakthrough role occurred in 1967’s The Graduate
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Tomorrow (early morning) on TCM:
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s more uncustomary, yet distinguished, offerings is 1953’s I Confess
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Today on TCM:
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 magnum opus Apocalypse Now
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until April 29th):
One of director David Lean’s more ambitious projects may have turned out less artistically accomplished than its director intended. Still, it has many attributes making Doctor Zhivago (1965) well worth seeing.
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Monday, April 22, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the second and remaining half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Friday, April 19, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
From 1947 comes a story that takes place during the Christmas Holidays, the film noir Lady in the Lake
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Just a reminder that in Hollywood (part of greater Los Angeles), California TCM is having its annual Classic Film Festival Thursday, April 18 to Sunday, April 21.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Today (early morning) 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 (1958).
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Monday, April 15, 2024
I’ve just added a short notice on the 1978 film The Boys in Company C
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Friday, April 12, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
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.
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
In Culpeper Virginia, The Library of Congress at the Packard Campus Theater is presenting Double Indemnity (1944, a 35mm print, an 80th Anniversary screening)
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Tonight on TCM:
Rarely does an atmosphere of such overpowering dread subsume a cinematic story so completely as it does 1943's The Seventh Victim.
Dish of the Day
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Monday, April 8, 2024
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present Heat [Director’s Definitive Edition] (1995, a 4k presentation) Monday, April 8 at 12 pm and Duck Soup (1933) Monday, April 8 at 5 pm.
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Friday, April 5, 2024
Today on TCM:
In my review of Casablanca (1942), I made some criticism regarding its emotionally underwhelming Parisian flashback. Prior to this film, however, Casablanca's producer Hal Wallis and one of its contributing writers, Casey Robinson, made Now, Voyager (1942)
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