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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present The Killing (1956) Thursday, July 31st at 11:45 am.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) has Humphrey Bogart portraying perhaps his darkest and most psychologically troubled character.
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Thursday, July 24, 2025
In In New York City, New York, Film Forum is presenting Ikiru (1952, as part of their KUROSAWA IN 4K series), on Friday, July 25th at 5:20 pm.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Next up is a film not often shown on TCM and a review which is sure to have some “unfriend” me in our Facebook chat room: 1974’s Chinatown.
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Tuesday, July 22, 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.
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Monday, July 21, 2025
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TCM is having a rare showing of The Gangster (1947).
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Friday, July 18, 2025
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One of Sidney Poitier’s most persuasive film roles occurs in the lesser known but exceptional cold war thriller The Bedford Incident: Hidden Gem #32 and previously recommended here.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Next is Strange Cargo which I previously listed as one of my TOP TEN Guilty Treasures.
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Monday, July 14, 2025
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… is David Lean’s magnificent 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia.
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Friday, July 11, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
After her breakthrough role in Joseph von Sternberg's The Blue Angel made in Germany, Marlene Dietrich made six more films with the autocratic director in the U.S. The Scarlet Empress (1934), previously reviewed here, is arguably the duo’s most accomplished.
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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
Today on TCM:
Next up is the remarkably understated, albeit compelling, racial drama Intruder in the Dust released in 1949.
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Friday, July 4, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
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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