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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... "

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Dish of the Day

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

Monday, October 7, 2024

Currently available at Watch TCM (until October 15th):

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,

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