Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Today on TCM:
Also on TCM’s agenda is the Neo-noir Bullitt (1968), one of Steve McQueen’s most iconic characterisations.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Many readers have taken me to task for my inclusion of 1942’s Casablanca on a list of “All that Glitters…”: The Overrated.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Tonight on TCM:
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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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, February 3, 2025
Tonight on TCM:
Bonnie and Clyde is a seminal gangster saga heavily influenced by the French iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Today on TCM:
Next up is a light-hearted and charming Christmas holiday treat: Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940).
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, January 24, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Few biopics are as inspirational as Michael Curtiz’ Jim Thorpe - All American (1951)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
1967’s Bonnie and Clyde is a seminal gangster saga heavily influenced by the French iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, January 20, 2025
Today on TCM:
Next up is the remarkably understated, albeit compelling, racial drama Intruder in the Dust released in 1949.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Make way for the rapturous Stanley Donen directed musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, January 10, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
The unmissable Busby Berkeley extravaganza Footlight Parade (1933)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
In my review of Casablanca (1942), I made some criticism regarding its emotionally underwhelming Parisian flashback. Prior to this film, however, Casablanca's producer Hal Wallis and one of its contributing writers, Casey Robinson, made Now, Voyager (1942)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Today on TCM:
Rarely does an atmosphere of such overpowering dread subsume a cinematic story so completely as it does 1943's The Seventh Victim.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, January 3, 2025
Today on TCM:
1945’s Spellbound directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is another film whereby I’ve previously promoted its soundtrack and have added a few words regarding the film itself here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Today on TCM:
TCM is bringing back Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, December 30, 2024
Today on TCM:
My last TCM recommendation of the year (reviewed here) is 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, December 27, 2024
Today on TCM:
When affairs of the heart are so well integrated with thoughts of murder as they are in the Humphrey Bogart starrer Conflict (1945), we have the makings of an exceptional film noir. This
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, December 20, 2024
This weekend on TCM:
From 1947 comes a story that takes place during the Christmas Holidays, the film noir Lady in the Lake
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, December 16, 2024
Today on TCM:
This next TCM recommendation is made for its John Williams composed score more than anything else. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) has been reviewed here
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