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Beware of Birds: Crow Hollow (1952)
Actress Natasha Parry, star of Crow Hollow (1952) Crow Hollow (1952) is a little seen low-budget British B-movie typically categorized as Film Noir in the few books where I’ve seen it mentioned. After...
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Rocky Will Always Be The Philadelphia Story To Me
Two things happened recently that got me thinking about places and movies. The first was happening to visit Philadelphia at least half a dozen times in the last six months (it’s only about an hour and...
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Lathes of Heaven
I’ve always had a thing for trippy Sci-Fi headscratchers. Its one of my favorite genres. I can’t be sure if my taste for such things is a consequence of seeing The Lathe of Heaven at a young and...
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Composer and Score, A Personal List
Today on TCM, the 1971 May-December romance drama, Summer of 42 airs, and while I can’t say much about the movie has ever appealed to me, the musical score has. It was done by Michel Legrand, one of...
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Lust for Life: “You Look Too Fast”
Each Monday evening during the month of March, TCM celebrates “Art and Artists” by airing 18 movies about painters and sculptors. The most diverse films are those based on fictional artists or...
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Kid Stuff: My Little Loves (1974)
Jean Eustache’s My Little Loves (1974) is about a boy. Twelve-year-old Daniel climbs trees, flirts with girls, and punches classmates in the stomach. He is poised between youth and adolescence, and...
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This week on TCM Underground: The Decline of Western Civilization Part III...
This week’s TCM Underground double feature of Penelope Spheeris’ THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART III (1998) and Jonathan Kaplan’s OVER THE EDGE (1979) goes out to all the expectant first-time...
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Six Irish Tales of Terror & Imagination
Many of my favorite horror and fantasy books are short story collections or compact novelettes. Some excellent examples of this include Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly, which...
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The Ten Commandments is Awesome: So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done
This March 20th, Fathoms in association with TCM will be showing The Ten Commandments at selected theaters around the country. The Ten Commandments, released 60 years ago this week, is one of the...
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Arbuckle Up, It’s Gonna Be a Bumpy Ride
DVR alert: there is a fabulous block of Roscoe Arbuckle comedies coming up on Sunday night, way past your bedtime. Roscoe appears onscreen in only a couple of them, but taken together this is an...
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A Quiet Place in the Country
A Quiet Place in the Country was nominated for a Golden Berlin Bear at the 1969 Berlin International Film Festival. The film was spearheaded by Italian director Elio Petri, stars Franco Nero and...
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Deep Inside the Dream Factory: Memo Wars Between Hal Wallis and Michael Curtiz
Recently, while researching the production histories of specific Golden Age movies, I came across several dusty books from the back of my bookshelves. Evidently, I did not think they would be of much...
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Taipei Story: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
“This film is dedicated to my father and his generation, who suffered so much for my generation to suffer less. I hope they, the forgotten, can be made unforgettable.” – Edward Yang, director’s note...
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This week on TCM Underground: Smithereens (1982) and Border Radio (1987)
This week on TCM Underground, a double dose of essential American indie filmmaking at its most denatured and daring. Philadelphia-born filmmaker Susan Seidelman was pointed to a career in fashion...
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New on Blu-ray: Roger Corman’s The Trip (1967)
In 1966, Roger Corman was enjoying the surprising success of The Wild Angels (1966), a trailblazing biker film that he directed and produced for American International Pictures. The studio had made...
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We Haven’t Seen Anything Really
Last Friday, March 18th, when I looked at the TCM schedule, I was reminded how many movies there are out there and how few any of us has really seen. Much of the time I look at the TCM schedule and can...
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How to Make Your Own Vermeer in 3 Easy Steps
Perhaps you are the type of person who enjoys ruminating on the question of “what is art?” If so, you’ve maybe already enjoyed such films as F for Fake, Exit Through the Gift Shop and My Kid Could...
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The Movie Myths We Think We Need… But Don’t
One of the movies not playing on TCM this Easter Sunday is Rebel Without a Cause. There’s no reason it necessarily should but, technically, it’s an Easter movie since it begins its story on the night...
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The Memos of Jack Warner: “The Mustache Is the Thing for This Picture”
In last week’s post, I offered snatches of internal memos from Warner Bros. regarding their day-to-day operations during the Golden Age of Hollywood. I quoted from memos between executive producer Hal...
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Last Call: Her Man (1930)
Tay Garnett’s Her Man (1930) has had a small but enduring auteurist cult, for those lucky enough to have seen the Cinematheque Francaise print that circulated in the ’50s and ’60s. In his American...
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