Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until April 6th):
Alfred Hitchcock's dazzling thriller, Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, March 18, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until March 30th):
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) has Humphrey Bogart portraying perhaps his darkest and most psychologically troubled character.
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, March 15, 2024
Today on TCM:
A film well worth seeing is Network (1976)
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Today on TCM:
Next up are a couple of “Streets” fellow travellers on the road to exciting new film noir discoveries do no want to miss.
Film noir has few representatives as dourly defeatist or as forcefully communicative on the subject of human relations than 1945's Scarlet Street
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the second and remaining half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Today on TCM:
My next recommendation is Howard Hawks’ lightening fast comedy/romance His Girl Friday (1940)
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, March 11, 2024
Today on TCM:
After directing Colorado Territory, Raoul Walsh’s very next film retained all of that film’s energy and even added some for White Heat (1949)
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Today on TCM:
1967’s Bonnie and Clyde is a seminal gangster saga heavily influenced by the French iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard.
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Today on TCM:
Still another Academy Award winning film from the ‘80s showing this month on TCM (along with Platoon, Out of Africa, and Rain Man) is 1987’s The Last Emperor
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Today on TCM:
Next up is Alfred Hitchcock's dazzling thriller, Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Today on TCM:
“What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.”
All About Eve (1950) is really all about the spoken word
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Today on TCM:
Next is a sterling example of how to present complex and enthralling characters, all of whom develop naturally while still holding our intense fascination: Citizen Kane (1941)
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, March 4, 2024
Today on TCM:
Make way for the rapturous Stanley Donen directed musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Today on TCM:
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is one of the most authentic and enthralling courtroom dramas of all time.
Read MoreJust some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, March 1, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the first half of next month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
Read MoreJust some thoughts on this month’s happenings:
Read More