Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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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? (reviewed here) remarkably delivering all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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Next up is the remarkably understated, albeit compelling, racial drama Intruder in the Dust released in 1949.
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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)
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Friday, July 4, 2025
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1972's The Getaway is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films; still, as a genre piece, it punches solidly above its pay grade.
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Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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Next on my list of films to watch is King Kong (1933), who's scheduled to make his grand entrance on Tuesday, July 1st at 1 pm PDT.
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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, June 27, 2025
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A top of the line screwball comedy released the same year as Sullivan’s Travels and, even more remarkably, from the same writer (co-writer here along with Monckton Hoffe) / director is The Lady Eve (1941) reviewed here.
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
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A pre-code charmer sure to delight fans is Blonde Crazy (1931) with Jimmy Cagney and Joan Blondell enchanting as a couple of cons.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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From the same director who brought us Citizen Kane comes another kind of cinematic hero (of sorts). Michael O'Hara, like the deeply flawed Kane, is flawlessly played by his creator Orson Welles. Unlike Citizen Kane however, this film fell under its producer Harry Cohn's butchery with considerable footage lost and destroyed forever. Nevertheless, what survives is vastly entertaining and not to be missed. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) was previously recommended here.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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TCM is having a rare showing of Martin Scorsese’s 1993 The Age of Innocence on Tuesday, June 24th at 5 pm PDT.
Dish of the Day
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Monday, June 23, 2025
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“Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride... the naked and the dead.”
Next up is Richard Fleischer’s little powder keg of a film noir Armored Car Robbery (1950), previously recommended here and set to explode Tuesday, June 24th at 2:30 pm PDT.
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Friday, June 20, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
In 1967, British Director John Boorman nailed the American crime milieu with the precision of his film's title, Point Blank, a Neo-noir masterpiece fortified with style and driven by purpose.
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present the exceptional Neo-noir Get Carter (1971, a 4K presentation) Friday, June 20th at 12 noon.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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Top Ten Western #8 High Noon is a simple but tightly constructed narrative, one of the few that unravels almost completely in real time.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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This will be a really bad day for anyone who encounters Them! (the giant mutant ants that is).
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Monday, June 16, 2025
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"Complaining about the far-fetched circumstances in films noir is like objecting to the lack of realism in a Picasso painting. What I mean is that lovers of these criminally rich cinematic delights oughtn’t to bother picking out the implausibilities, since they are practically a hallmark of noir's style."
I've written this before when introducing Split Second (1953), a film noir that presents some rather unlikely occurring, but fascinating, situations.
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