You know, there’s no excuse for this lateness. I just need to write these earlier. It’s not like the networks don’t have their schedules up weeks in advance. Again, though, there was nothing on Monday worth noting anyway.
Tuesday, 6 January
9:45pm / 8:45pm - TCM - The Fallen Idol
A murder mystery unusually told through the eyes [...]

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Tagged:Amores Perros, Anchors Aweigh, Dinner at Eight, Dodge City, Key Largo, Little Caesar, Miller's Crossing, Millions, Mister Roberts, My Darling Clementine, On the Town, Solaris, The Caine Mutiny, The Crowd, The Fallen Idol, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Public Enemy, The Third Man, Umberto D

A bit late again. Good thing there wasn’t a lot on Monday or Tuesday worth looking at anyway. So we’ll start in on Wednesday. The movie channels apparently decided to dump EVERYTHING they had for the turn of the new year, because the 31st and 1st are jam packed. Craziness. I also threw in some [...]

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Tagged:adaptation, Bringing Up Baby, Die Hard, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, It Happened One Night, King Kong, Libeled Lady, Looney Tunes, Modern Times, Nothing Sacred, Planet of the Apes, Shall We Dance, Stagecoach, That's Dancing!, That's Entertainment, The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Awful Truth, The Cat's Meow, The Quiet Man, The Red Shoes, The Seven Year Itch, Them!, They Were Expendable, Two for the Road

Merry Christmas, everyone! I apologize for not getting this out on Sunday. I was having eureka moments in programming and it completely slipped my mind.
Tuesday, 23 December
12:35am / 11:35pm (24th) - Sundance - 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Another chance at one of the best movies from last year.
Wednesday, 24 December
11:10am / 10:10am - [...]

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Tagged:4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Annie Hall, Au revoir les enfants, Ben-Hur, Bringing Up Baby, Casablanca, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Fahrenheit 451, High Sierra, Howl's Moving Castle, Lawrence of Arabia, Meet Me in St. Louis, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Rashomon, Sabrina, The African Queen, The Big Sleep, The Bishop's Wife, The Constant Gardener, The Cooler, The Great Escape, The Maltese Falcon, The Princess and the Warrior, The Seven Samurai, To Have and Have Not, True Grit, Woman of the Year

Though I obviously recommend all these films (or I wouldn’t list them here), I’m going to start putting MUST-SEE on ones that I’d say you, well, must see. That is, if you aren’t able to catch them on TV this week, put them in your Netflix queue. Or buy them. Something.
Thanks to those of you [...]

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Tagged:12 Angry Men, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, All About My Mother, Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ, Gaslight, Good News, Gosford Park, Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, Howl's Moving Castle, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, My Favorite Wife, Paths of Glory, Shadow of a Doubt, Strictly Ballroom, The 400 Blows, The Apartment, The Great Escape, The Hidden Fortress, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Player, The Third Man, Topkapi, Topsy-Turvy, Trainspotting, You Can't Take It With You

Monday, 8 December
None. Can you believe it?
Tuesday, 9 December
11:30am / 10:30am - TCM - The Bad and the Beautiful
TCM is running a Kirk Douglas festival, but including both The Bad and the Beautiful and Two Weeks in Another Town (at 6pm) makes a nice double feature of Douglas/Vincente Minnelli/Hollywood-on-Hollywood films. Gloria Grahame won her Best [...]

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Tagged:A Hard Day's Night, adaptation, Chicago, Children of Paradise, Christmas in Connecticut, Das Boot, Garden State, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, High Society, Jules et Jim, Little Women, Remember the Night, Singin' in the Rain, Strictly Ballroom, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Cooler, Two Weeks in Another Town

Monday, November 24
9:00pm EST / 8:00pm CST - IFC - The Proposition
One of the best reviewed westerns in recent memory hails from Australia; the “proposition” is that outlaw Guy Pearce, in order to save himself and his younger brothers from corrupt lawmen, must find and kill his estranged oldest brother. I honestly didn’t like the [...]

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Tagged:Arsenic and Old Lace, Everyone Says I Love You, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Hannah and Her Sisters, High Noon, Mildred Pierce, Monsoon Wedding, My Fair Lady, Picnic at Hanging Rock, That's Entertainment, The King and I, The Misfits, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Proposition, Throne of Blood, Twentieth Century, West Side Story, Witness for the Prosecution, You Can't Take It With You

Completely forgot about this yesterday. My bad. And I’m short on time today, so this is just TCM for this week.
Monday, November 17
2:30am / 1:30am (18th) - TCM - Hamlet (1948)
Laurence Olivier’s version of Shakespeare’s play is moody and dark, as befitting melancholy Denmark. This is the Hamlet adaptation by which all others are judged, [...]

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Monday, 10 November
7:25pm EST / 6:25 CST - IFC - Clerks
Kevin Smith’s debut film is little more than a few convenience store clerks chatting, but its fresh feel fits right in with the mid-’90s indie scene. And the film introduces Smith stock characters Jay and Silent Bob, so there’s that.
Tuesday, 11 November
7:55am / 6:55am - [...]

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Tagged:Amarcord, Blowup, Clerks, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Diabolique, Hollywood Canteen, Kiss Me Deadly, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Paths of Glory, Pillow Talk, Rear Window, Solaris, Stage Door Canteen, Strangers on a Train, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Haunting, The Seventh Seal, The Shop Around the Corner, The Usual Suspects, The Virgin SPring, This is England, This is the Army, Thousands Cheer