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Dish of the Day


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

Tuesday, June 24, 2025


Today on TCM:


TCM is having a rare showing of Martin Scorsese’s 1993 The Age of Innocence on Tuesday, June 24th at 5 pm PDT. I have previously bestowed a few words here on both the film and its heavenly music composed by Elmer Bernstein.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder

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Hope to see you tomorrow.

A.G.

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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Dish of the Day (A Long Good Friday Edition)

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

Friday, June 13, 2025

This weekend on TCM:

The multi-talented Gordon Parks made his directorial debut at age 57 with 1969's The Learning Tree based on his semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. This touching coming of age story was previously lauded, along with its creator Parks, in an article entitled: Exploring the Artefacts #5: The Alchemist.

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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, May 30, 2025

Tomorrow on TCM:

Next up, is a WW II film that can only be defined by its setting. There are just too many dispersed ideas regarding tone and perspective to communicate what kind of film Kelly’s Heroes (1970) is, let alone how any of its numerous genre types are successfully represented.

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Dish of the Day

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

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Today on TCM:

Like the previous selection, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is an extremely popular film I have been fairly critical of. 1969’s western, previously reviewed here, is showing Tuesday, May 20 at 5 pm PDT.

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