The Ladykillers, playing on TCM on Monday at 3:15pm
 
We had classic Ealing/Alec Guinness comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets recently, and now here comes The Ladykillers, possibly my favorite Ealing/Guinness comedy, playing on TCM on Monday. Not a lot of other newly featured stuff, though I did throw in some lower-level MGM musicals. Because I like [...]

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Away from Her, playing on IFC on Tuesday, January 20
Among the new offerings this week: A pair of “great teacher” movies on Monday with Blackboard Jungle and To Sir, With Love, the classic and not very often screened Max Ophuls film Lola Montes late Sunday night, and Sarah Polley’s highly impressive directorial debut Away from [...]

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Henry V, playing on TCM Saturday at 6:00am.
There haven’t been so many newly featured films to highlight for quite a while as there are this week. Nice to have some new stuff to write up for a change! We have a couple of 1940s British classics in Henry V and Kind Hearts and Coronets on [...]

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Tagged:A Streetcar Named Desire, A Woman Under the Influence, Anatomy of a Murder, Blow Out, Bob le flambeur, Broadway Melody of 1936, Cyrano de Bergerac, Go, Henry V, Hero, Kill Bill Vol 1, Kill Bill Vol 2, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Ninotchka, Roxanne, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Cooler, The Heiress, The Lives of Others, The Squid and the Whale, While the City Sleeps, Wild Strawberries, Ziegfeld Follies

The Thin Man, playing on TCM at noon at Saturday
Ach. TCM is trying to kill us this week. Prepare your DVRs. In addition to a great slate of repeating content, we have a slew of new stuff. Like both versions of Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 on Monday, 1956 on Saturday), [...]

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s, playing on TCM on Wednesday at midnight.
Among the new offerings this week: Woody Allen’s geopolitical farce Bananas on Tuesday, the quintessentially 1960s vision Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Wednesday, and the gritty Mann-Stewart western The Naked Spur on Saturday. Also, the chance to watch and compare two of the movies considered by many [...]

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Ride the High Country, playing on TCM Friday, November 13.
A few interesting new ones this week. I haven’t seen Nicholas Ray’s Bitter Victory, playing on Wednesday, but it comes highly recommended by Jean-Luc Godard. So there. Then there’s Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder on Thursday, which I can’t believe we haven’t seen in this feature [...]

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Tagged:A Fish Called Wanda, A Woman Under the Influence, Bitter Victory, Black Book, Bob le flambeur, Che, Cleo from 5 to 7, Dial M for Murder, Gangs of New York, Gigi, Le doulos, My Life as a Dog, Oklahoma, Orpheus, Primer, Pulp Fiction, Rear Window, Ride the High Country, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Night of the Hunter, The Squid and the Whale, Three Times, To Catch a Thief, White Heat, Wuthering Heights

Nearly everything’s a repeat this week, but many of them haven’t been on for months, so check anyway, there may be something worthwhile. And since there aren’t really that many exciting Newly Featured films this week, let me take the opportunity to plug Maria Full of Grace, which is one of those movies that I [...]

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Tagged:A Woman Under the Influence, Anatomy of a Murder, Arsenic and Old Lace, Black Book, Bob le flambeur, Hero, High Noon, Le doulos, Maria Full of Grace, North by Northwest, Pulp Fiction, Roman Holiday, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Take the Money and Run, Tarzan the Ape Man, The Maltese Falcon, The Proposition, Three Times, Tristram Shandy, Vertigo, Volver

Volver, playing on IFC at 12:35pm on the 31st and 4:15am on the 1st
I apologize in advance for the relative brevity of this week’s post. I’ve been fighting a fever all weekend, so I pretty much only included things I had already written about somewhere or could throw something up without thinking. The quality of [...]

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Tagged:A Hard Day's Night, A Star is Born, Army of Shadows, Bob le flambeur, Chasing Amy, Dark Passage, Footlight Parade, Funny Girl, Gold Diggers of 1933, Le doulos, Love Affair, Mad Max, Maria Full of Grace, Midnight, North by Northwest, Out of the Past, Paris je t'aime, Primer, Ran, Spellbound, Tarzan the Ape Man, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Cooler, The Grapes of Wrath, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Wrong Man, Twentieth Century, Volver, While the City Sleeps, Wuthering Heights