Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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Next is Top Ten Westerns #1, the explosively confrontational The Wild Bunch (1969). If by chance one hasn’t seen this landmark film, remedy that immediately. For those who have, please see my review Opening Up a Treasure: The Wild Bunch as to why it was and still is, one of America's finest contributions to the cinematic arts.
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Hope to see you tomorrow.
A.G.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, June 2, 2025
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A CC Hidden Gem (#30) rarely shown on TCM is Nagisa Oshima's 1969 feature Boy a.k.a. Shonen previously cited here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
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“I love this dirty town.”
New York City’s vernacular never smelled sweeter than it does in 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, May 12, 2025
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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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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
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TCM is presenting an unequivocal masterpiece and one of Cinema's greatest artistic achievements: Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis) (1945).
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, May 5, 2025
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In the U.K. town of Midwich, strange children with mysterious origins are behaving badly. Find out just how bad when viewing the chilling Village of the Damned (1960), previously reviewed here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, May 1, 2025
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The unmissable Busby Berkeley extravaganza Footlight Parade (1933) is a previous TCM recommendation here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, April 17, 2025
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This must-see TCM film recommendation is Italian director Vittorio De Sica's 1948 neo-realist masterpiece The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette), one of the most emotionally devastating films of all time (See: Top Ten: World Cinema Treasures).
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Returning to underappreciated films noir, we have Hidden Gem #10 They Won't Believe Me with its fascinating, twisted plot and antithetically noir central character.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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Next is the highly engrossing and tension filled film noir The Steel Trap (1952)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, April 3, 2025
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MGM's 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain was not adapted from a theatrical production, though the film was later turned into one, being first presented on stage in 1983.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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TCM is bringing back Bringing Up Baby (1938) previously recommended here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, March 31, 2025
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The caper film first laid its roots in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) previously reviewed here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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This next film to see is Fritz Lang’s 1952 Clash by Night
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, March 20, 2025
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Barbara Stanwyck stars as a devoted wife trying to save her husband (played by Barry Sullivan) but equally determined to match wits against killer Ralph Meeker in order to do so, in the previously recommended (here) film noir, 1953's Jeopardy.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, March 17, 2023
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TCM is making available to its subscribers, one of film noir's finest, 1950’s Gun Crazy, previously reviewed here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, March 14, 2025
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1972's The Getaway, is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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TCM is presenting another top Preston Sturges classic, Remember the Night (1940)
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
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A film well worth seeing is Network (1976), a “mad as hell” exposé of just how far some TV executives will go to exploit for profit a former news anchor’s severe “on the air” mental breakdown.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, March 6, 2025
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Next up is Baby Face (1933), the Pre-Code sensation starring Barbara Stanwyck
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