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TCM Classic Film Festival 2023: Part Three Most years, I try to take in at least one silent during the TCM Classic Film Festival (though I haven’t always been successful). This year, I did manage to make it to The...
TCM Classic Film Festival 2023: Part Two TCM Classic Film Festival only has two screens capable of projecting film. First, there’s the American Legion theater. That’s the big one and we’ll get to it later in this update. And then...
TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Part One At this point, it’s not a coincidence that I always seem to kick off the first evening the the TCM Classic Film Festival with a pre-Code feature. That programming slot is clearly an...
In this episode, David is joined by Kyle Anderson, Scott Nye and Julie Sesnovich to discuss the films of the 2022 TCM Classic Film Festival. David and the usual gang braved the simultaneously rebuilding and crumbling outdoor mall at the...
TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Three William Dieterle’s (again!) Portrait of Jennie has the distinction of being quite possibly the weirdest-ass movie I’ve ever seen at a TCM Classic Film Festival. Granted, the bar’s not set all that high...
TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Two After The Letter, here comes another movie with a Max Steiner score (not the last of the festival for me, either), Michael Curtiz‘ Angels with Dirty Faces. A crime picture with James Cagney...
TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part One It’s going to be hard to resist the temptation to turn every reaction to every movie I saw at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival into a gleeful celebration of the fact that...
In this episode, David is joined by Julie Sesnovich, Scott Nye and Kyle Anderson to discuss the films of this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival.
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 738: The Oscar Expert Above Suspicion: Impersonal Elegy, by David Bax The Story of a Three-Day Pass: Weekend, by David Bax TCM Classic Film Festival...
For a long time, I had very little interest in seeing Bullitt, a movie I snobbishly thought of as a Steve McQueen vanity project, something he reverse engineered from the idea for a car chase scene. I softened my stance...
