Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, May 27, 2024
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), is an incisive look into how each of three returning servicemen adapt to civilian life at home after World War II.
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Thursday, May 23, 2024
Today on TCM:
One of the Top Ten: World Cinema Treasures is The Battle of Algiers a.k.a. La battaglia di Algeri (1966).
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024
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Roadblock (1951) is a nifty little noir featuring a hard cop who, understandably, goes soft for a dame and thus turns to the dark side.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
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There have been quite a few movies centred around boxing over the years from 1937’s Kid Galahad to 2018’s Creed II with plenty of standouts in-between such as 1947’s Body and Soul, 1956’s Somebody Up There Likes Me, 1962’s Requiem for a Heavyweight, 1972’s Fat City and 1980’s Raging Bull. None of these, however, get as straight to the punchline as 1949’s knockout noir The Set-Up,
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Monday, May 20, 2024
Already posted to the CC site is the second and remaining half of this month’s >>> “Now Listen to Me…” <<< column
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Saturday, May 18, 2024
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Next is Strange Cargo (1940) which I previously listed as one of my Top Ten: Guilty Treasures.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Tomorrow early morning on TCM:
“How does it feel to be a decent, respectable married man?”
Dick Powell’s Everyman faces a mid-life crisis, including a far more considerable threat to his well being in the form of Raymond Burr’s jealous contractor, in Pitfall (1948), previously recommended here.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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Otto Preminger’s directed classic, 1944’s Laura, is the exacting director’s slick and assured amalgamation of mystery (whodunnit) and film noir (obsessive desire, gruesome murder etc) elements.
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Monday, May 13, 2024
Today on TCM:
Next up is the remarkably understated, albeit compelling, racial drama Intruder in the Dust released in 1949.
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Friday, May 10, 2024
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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Thursday, May 9, 2024
In Palm Springs, California, the 2024 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival celebrates its 2024 incarnation beginning on Thursday evening May 9th.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024
In Los Feliz (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Los Feliz 3 Theatre will present the colour film noir Desert Fury (1947, a 35mm print)
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Tonight on TCM:
Next is a sterling example of how to present complex and enthralling characters, all of whom develop naturally while still holding our intense fascination: Citizen Kane (1941).
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Monday, May 6, 2024
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Ace in the Hole (1951) is Billy Wilder's scathing examination of American opportunism and moral depravity via cocky newspaper reporter Chuck Tatum,
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Friday May 3, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
Dark Passage (1947) is a wildly engrossing film noir that combines the best of romance with the best of noir in the best location for both: San Francisco.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Today on TCM:
Otto Preminger’s directed classic, 1944’s Laura, is the exacting director’s slick and assured amalgamation of mystery (whodunnit) and film noir (obsessive desire, gruesome murder etc) elements.
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