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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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One of director David Lean’s more ambitious projects may have turned out less artistically accomplished than its director intended. Still, it has many attributes making Doctor Zhivago (1965) well worth seeing.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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Besieged with production problems, and sometimes wrongfully criticised because of them, this next TCM recommendation is, nevertheless, an accomplished and splendorous piece of dramatically dynamic adventure storytelling: the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Alfred Hitchcock's dazzling thriller, Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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Monday, March 18, 2024
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) has Humphrey Bogart portraying perhaps his darkest and most psychologically troubled character.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024
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The more psychologically disturbing, (than monstrously horrifying) 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has Spencer Tracy in the title role.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Noir City now taking place in Seattle, Washington is running until February 22nd. On Wednesday, February 21st, one of the greatest American films, The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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Monday, February 19, 2024
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1947’s Nora Prentiss is portrayed by Ann Sheridan.
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Monday, February 12, 2024
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What better way for film lovers to celebrate cinema's vast diversity after watching so many hard-hitting dramas, than to partake in the light-hearted, almost make-believe world of a Princess' Roman Holiday?
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Thursday, February 8, 2024
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Director John Frankenheimer’s subtle but evocative character study The Gypsy Moths was released in 1969.
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Friday, February 2, 2024
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1947’s Nora Prentiss is portrayed by Ann Sheridan.
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Friday, January 26, 2024
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Fans of film noir who haven't seen John Brahm's 1946 The Locket
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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"And then I saw her - coming out of the sun. And I knew why Whit didn't care about that 40 grand."
Out of the Past (1947)
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
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This next recommendation is a light-hearted and charming Christmas holiday treat: Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940).
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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Along with The Shop Around the Corner later this month, TCM is presenting another top Christmas Holiday classic, Remember the Night (1940)
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Monday, December 11, 2023
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In 1966, one of the more challenging films to face off against the Production Code (mentioned in Exploring the Artefacts #3: Code Breakers) was that year’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
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The Hunted (1948)
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Friday, November 25, 2023
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The next 3 recommendations are all films noir, each packing a solid punch.
The first is a highly distinctive crime film, overflowing with noir goodness, 1949’s Too Late for Tears.
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Monday, November 13, 2023
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The caper film first laid its roots in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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