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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Rear Window, playing on TCM on Sunday, June 28th at 12:15am
As TCM nears the end of their month of Great Directors, they shine the spotlight on George Stevens, Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and George Cukor. And a mini-spotlight on David Lean on Friday morning.
Monday, June 22
10:45am – IFC – Mon Oncle
Jacques [...]

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Well, I had a bit of an internet outage this week, preventing me from posting the Film on TV post. I would’ve just skipped it, but Saturday has a HUGE AMOUNT of fantastic movies playing. So a late and truncated post will have to do. Please direct any complaints to Time Warner Cable of Los [...]

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Monday, Feb 23rd
Nothing today!
Tuesday, Feb 24th
Probably getting this posted a bit late for the first couple of these, but what the heck. Rent them, because they’re worth it. :)
1:45pm – TCM – The 400 Blows
One of my favorite films, and the one that started off my current love affair with the French New Wave. Director [...]

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