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October 01, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on this month’s happenings:

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categories / Now Listen To Me
tags / Fathom Events, Film Forum New York City, The Prince Charles Cinema, The Astor Theatre Melbourne, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, The American Cinematheque, Secret Movie Club, The Beverly Cinema, The Cinematheque Vancouver, Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca, The Redford Theatre Detroit, Flashback Cinema, TCM Recommendations, The Big Country (1958), The Wild Bunch (1969), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), 36 Hours (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), Gun Crazy (1950), King Kong (1933), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Touch of Evil (1958), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Library of Congress Culpeper Virginia, Noir City Washington D.C., Village of the Damned (1960), Freaks (1932), Red River (1948), The Heiress (1949), Star 80 (1983), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Mystery Street (1950), Ice Station Zebra (1968), The Seventh Victim (1943), Witchfinder General aka The Conqueror Worm (1968), Marion Ross, Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) (Soundtrack)

Dish of the Day

September 28, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

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

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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categories / Dish of the Day
tags / Film musings, TCM Recommendations, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (Soundtrack), Top Ten Performances by an Actress, Exploring the Artefacts: Code Breakers

End Credits #105: Cinema's 2022 Lost Treasures James Caan, Peter Brook, Joe Turkel, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philip Baker Hall, Ray Liotta, Vangelis, Robert Morse, Gilbert Gottfried

September 26, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

These are some of Cinema's sad departures of 2022 taken from my personal notes soon after the events took place:

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categories / End Credits
tags / In Memoriam, James Caan, Peter Brook, Joe Turkel, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philip Baker Hall, Ray Liotta, Vangelis, Robert Morse, Gilbert Gottfried

Dish of the Day

September 18, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

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

Monday, September 18, 2023

Already posted to the CC site is the second and remaining half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column containing another 12 recommended movies to watch on TCM (bringing the total to 25),

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categories / Dish of the Day
tags / Film musings, "Now Listen to Me...", TCM Recommendations, Them! (1954)

Dish of the Day (A Long Good Friday Edition)

September 15, 2023  /  Arthur Grant

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

Friday, September 15, 2023

Recently, in our film related chat room (readers are welcome to join here), I got hammered pretty good for criticising Steven Spielberg’s often employed overly sentimental approach to cinematic storytelling, specifically as it relates to the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).

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categories / Dish of the Day
tags / Film musings, Facebook chat, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Steven Spielberg