Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, October 26, 2023
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TCM is making available to its subscribers, one of film noir's finest, 1950’s Gun Crazy,
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Monday, October 16, 2023
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This will be a really bad day for anyone who encounters Them!
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Thursday, October 12, 2023
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One of the most intelligent and illuminating documentaries ever produced is Robert Epstein's 1984 feature The Times of Harvey Milk
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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… is a film reviewed in Opening Up a Treasure: The Night of the Hunter.
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Monday, October 2, 2023
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TCM is making available to its subscribers Hidden Gem #59, The Hill (1965)
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Saturday, September 30, 2023
Recently added to September’s “Now Listen to Me…” column is a review of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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Monday, September 25, 2023
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TCM is making available to its subscribers, one of the most astute explorations of small town American life, 1971’s The Last Picture Show,
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Monday, September 11, 2023
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When affairs of the heart are so well integrated with thoughts of murder as they are in the Humphrey Bogart starrer Conflict (1945)
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Monday, August 21, 2023
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Making her bold appearance is Barbara Stanwyck as Baby Face,
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Thursday, August 17, 2023
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is Charlie Chaplin’s charming cinematic love letter, 1931’s City Lights,
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
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Bad Day at Black Rock,
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Thursday, August 3, 2023
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In 1967, British Director John Boorman nailed the American crime milieu with the precision of his film's title, Point Blank,
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Thursday, July 27, 2023
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This next recommendation is a modest but skilfully mounted western packed with suspense, The Stalking Moon (1968)
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Thursday, July 20, 2023
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Although starting out as quite the common man, circumstances will turn this rather nondescript accountant played by Edmond O'Brien, into a kind of noir superhero in D.O.A. (1950)
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Saturday, July 8, 2023
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My next recommendation is one of those lesser known films noir with a most appropriate title: Impact (1949).
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Friday, June 30, 2023
Recently added to June’s “Now Listen to Me…” column is a review of Victim (1961)
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Recently added to May’s “Now Listen to Me…” column is a review of Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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Tequila Sunrise (1988)
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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One of Alfred Hitchcock’s more uncustomary, yet distinguished, offerings is I Confess (1953)
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a romantic fantasy/drama that provides viewers with an incredibly moving experience.
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