Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Tomorrow (early morning) on TCM:
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s more uncustomary, yet distinguished, offerings is 1953’s I Confess previously reviewed here, featuring a fervent, introspective performance from Montgomery Clift. This highly engrossing confessional can be heard (and seen) Friday, April 26 at 4:45 am PDT.
Anne Baxter, Montgomery Clift
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Currently available on Watch TCM (until April 29th):
One of director David Lean’s more ambitious projects may have turned out less artistically accomplished than its director intended. Still, it has many attributes making Doctor Zhivago (1965) well worth seeing.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Just a reminder that in Hollywood (part of greater Los Angeles), California TCM is having its annual ClassicFilm Festival Thursday, April 18 to Sunday, April 21.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Today (early morning) on TCM:
My next TCM recommendation for the month is, for many experts, the final film noir released during the classification's classic time period (1940 - 1959), Orson Welles' stylistically assertive Touch of Evil (1958).
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, April 12, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
MGM's 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain was not adapted from a theatrical production, though the film was later turned into one, being first presented on stage in 1983.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, April 11, 2024
In Culpeper Virginia, The Library of Congress at the Packard Campus Theater is presenting Double Indemnity (1944, a 35mm print, an 80th Anniversary screening)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, April 8, 2024
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present Heat [Director’s Definitive Edition] (1995, a 4k presentation) Monday, April 8 at 12 pm and Duck Soup (1933) Monday, April 8 at 5 pm.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, April 5, 2024
Today on TCM:
In my review of Casablanca(1942), I made some criticism regarding its emotionally underwhelming Parisian flashback. Prior to this film, however, Casablanca's producer Hal Wallis and one of its contributing writers, Casey Robinson, made Now, Voyager (1942)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Today’s “Dish of the Day” has a brief review of mine that was inspired by a post in one of the film related Facebook chat rooms. This includes the Cinema Cafe group (all readers are encouraged to join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/902349343110685).
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Today on TCM:
There are 3 films starring Marlon Brando that I have reviewed.
Besieged with production problems, and sometimes wrongfully criticised because of them, this next TCM recommendation is, nevertheless, an accomplished and splendorous piece of dramatically dynamic adventure storytelling: the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty,
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present On Her Majesty’s Secret Service(1969, a 4k presentation, a 65th Anniversary screening)
