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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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"Now Listen to Me... "

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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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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Dish of the Day


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

Monday, June 23, 2025


Tomorrow on TCM:


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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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)


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

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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