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Dish of the Day

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

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.

Miki Odagiri, Takashi Shimura

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For those of you who have seen this masterpiece and would like to re-experience its final moments, click on the image below:


All responses are not only welcomed but encouraged in the comments section below.

Hope to see you tomorrow.

A.G.

Dish of the Day

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

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until July 24th):

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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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)


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

Friday, July 18, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until July 21st):

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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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)


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

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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Dish of the Day

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

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until July 13th):

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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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)


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

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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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


Today on TCM:

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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