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Dish of the Day (A Long Good Friday Edition)

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

Friday, January 5, 2024

Today on TCM:

The next two film noirs, both starring ice skating champ Belita and playing back-to-back, may be lesser known but are well worth checking out.

First, get ready for the appropriately titled Suspense (1946), reviewed here

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"Now Listen to Me..."

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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End Credits #106: Cinema's 2022 Lost Treasures Mike Hodges, Angela Lansbury, Louise Fletcher, Jean-Luc Godard, Marsha Hunt, Wolfgang Petersen, Paul Sorvino, Bob Rafelson, L.Q. Jones

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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Dish of the Day

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

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Today on TCM:

Despite its ridiculously hard to follow plot, this next recommendation's wildly entertaining detective yarn is worth waking up for.

Previously reviewed hereThe Big Sleep (1946)

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Dish of the Day

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

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Currently available on Watch TCM (until January 15th) in addition to appearing on the regular TCM channel Saturday, December 23 at 5 pm PST.

This next recommendation is a light-hearted and charming Christmas holiday treat: Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940).

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