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Sunday, December 13/14 2:15 a.m. Diamonds of the Night (1964). Pretty good Czech film by Jan Nemec.

Saturday, December 12 10 a.m. Popeye: Spinach For Britain (1942). Germany had no chance after this. 5:15 a.m. Invasion of Astro Monster aka Monster Zero (1965). Co-starring Godzilla

The 2019 winner of Mexico’s Ariel Best Picture Award was … I’m No Longer Here (2019) Fernando Frias, Mexico The 2019 winner of Mexico’s Ariel Best Latin American Picture Award was … Pain and Glory (2019) Pedro Almodovar, Spain

Friday, December 11 10 p.m. Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity (2015). Recent documentary that looks very interesting. 11:30 p.m. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018). Replaced in Canada with Singin’ in the Rain (1952). 1:15 a.m. For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009). 4:30 a.m. The Panic In Needle Park (1971). Pretty good low budget film with Al Pacino and Kitty Winn.

Thursday, December 10 10 p.m. Larceny, Inc. (1942). Another good Edward G. Robinson picture.

Wednesday, December 9/10 Music by Bernard Herrmann 1:15 a.m. Mysterious Island (1961). This was a big favourite when I was a kid.

I bought this 21 disc box set in England. The discs are PAL so you would need a multi region player. You can still pick up multi region blu ray players pretty cheap. Block-Heads 1938 The Bohemian Girl 1936 A Chump at Oxford 1940 Our Relations 1936 Pack Up Your Troubles 1932 Pardon Us 1931 Saps at Sea 1940 Sons of the Desert 1933 Swiss Miss 1938 A Tribute to the Boys 1991 Way Out West 1937 Along Came Auntie 1926 Angora Love 1929 Another Fine Mess 1930 Any Old Port 1932 Bacon Grabbers 1929 The Battle of the Century 1928 Be Big 1931 Beau Hunks 1931 Below Zero 1930 Berth Marks 1929 Big Business 1929 Blotto 1930 Brats 1930 Busy Bodies 1933 Call of the Cuckoo 1927 Chickens Come Home 1931 The Chimp 1932 Come Clean 1931 County Hospital 1932 Dirty Work 1933 Do Detectives Think? 1927 Double Whoopee 1933 Duck Soup 1927 Early to Bed 1928 The Finishing Touch 1928 The Fixer-Uppers 1935 Fluttering Hearts 1927 Flying Elephants 1927 45 Minutes From Hollywood 1926 From Soup to Nuts 1928 Going Bye-Bye 1934 Habeus Corpus 1928 Hats Off - Stills Gallery 1927 Helpmates 1931 Hog Wild 1930 The Hoose-Gow 1929 (Jewish) Prudence 1927 Laughing Gravy 1931 The Laurel Hardy Murder Case 30 Liberty 1929 The Live Ghost 1934 Love ‘Em and Weep 1927 Me and My Pal 1933 Men O’War 1929 The Midnight Patrol 1933 The Music Box 1932 Night Owls 1930 Oliver the Eighth 1934 On the Loose 1931 On the Wrong Trek 1936 One Good Turn 1931 Our Wife 1931 Perfect Day 1929 Putting Pants on Philip 1928 Sailors Breware 1927 Scram! 1932 The Second Hundred Years 1927 Should Married Men Go Home? 28 Slipping Wives 1927 Sugar Daddies 1927 That’s My Wife 1929 Their First Mistake 1932 Their Purple Moment 1928 Them Thar Hills 1934 They Go Boom 1929 Thicker Than Water 1935 Thundering Fleas 1926 **** For Tat 1935 Towed in a Hole 1933 Twice Two 1931 Two Tars 1928 Unaccustomed As We Are 1929 We Faw Down 1928 Why Girls Love Sailors 1927 With Love and Hisses 1927 Wrong Again 1929 You’re Darn Tootin’ 1928

Tuesday December 8 midnight. Great Expectations (1946). Superior Dickens adaptation by David Lean.

Monday, December 7 8 a.m. Postman’s Knock (1962). With Spike Milligan. Laurel & Hardy SOTM in U.S. 9:30 p.m. Sons of the Desert (1933). The original Water Buffalos. and it looks like it is The Bowery Boys as SOTM in Canada 9:30 p.m. Blues Busters (1950). Maybe there were not enough Lassie pictures to fill the schedule.

1964 The Scarlet Camellia (1964) Yoshitaro Nomura, Japan Beautiful Shima Iwashita plays a young women who lures men to their deaths in this period revenge saga. At 2 hours 43 minutes it is a bit long but not bad at all.

Sunday, December 6/7 4 a.m. Knife In the Water (1962). By Roman Polanski. Yi Yi (2000) by Edward Yang, originally scheduled at 2:15 a.m. has been scratched.

Saturday, December 5 10 a.m. Popeye: Wood Peckin (1943). 10 p.m. The Maltese Falcon (1941). The stuff dreams are made of.

Friday, December 4 3:45 a.m. Motel Hell (1980). I thought Rory Calhoun was pretty good in this.

Thursday, December 3/4 4:15 a.m. The Gunfighter (1950). One of Gregory Peck’s best performances IMO.

Wednesday, December 2 8:45 a.m. Very Annie Mary (2001). With Rachel Griffiths and Jonathan Pryce. Karnaval (1982) at 10:30 a.m. has been scratched.

The 2019 Canadian Screen Award winner … Antigone (2019) Sophie Deraspe, Canada

Tuesday, December 1 Dana Andrews day. 8 a.m. Sealed Cargo (1951). Nazis make the mistake of tangling with Canadian fishermen.

Monday, November 30 Shelley Winters SOTM 2 a.m. Blume In Love (1973). Decent Paul Mazursky film with George Segal. Has Segal ever been SOTM?

Sunday, November 29/30 2 a.m. The Great Beauty (2013). This Italian film got great reviews and won many awards but it didn’t do much for me the first time that I saw it.

Saturday, November 28 6 a.m. Key Largo (1948). I could go for this first thing. 10 a.m. Popeye: Ration For the Duration (1943)

1963 The Little Nuns (1963) Luciano Salce, Italy When jets flying over their little chapel continue to do damage to its ancient fresco two nuns decide to travel to Rome to confront the airline. This is the set up for a series of comedic adventures with recurring characters. It isn’t bad by any means but not top notch either. I really liked the sequence where the nuns wander onto a film set that has other faux nuns as extras. Unfortunately I could only see a dubbed version. Suzanne’s Career (1963) Eric Rohmer, France A pleasant enough little film (it runs 54 mins.) about an average working girl who meets a cad and his friend. Is she being taken advantage of or doesn’t she mind? and I’ve also seen … Attack Squadron! (1963) Shue Matsubayashi, Japan I expected much more from this film about Japanese fighter pilots defending the homeland in the waning days of WWII. It’s theme was should one become a kamikaze or live to fight another day. It has an impressive cast with Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Takashi Shimura and even Kiyoshi Atsumi who played Tora-San in over 50 films. But it is cheesy and there are only a handful of shots of real airplanes. The rest of the film looks like it could have been done by Gerry Anderson of ‘Thunderbirds’ fame! Very lame.

Friday, November 27/28 3:30 a.m. The Fog (1980). By John Carpenter. But originally TCM had scheduled Desperate Living (1977) by John Waters.

Thursday, November 26/27 Hitchcock-a-thon 2:30 a.m. Psycho (1960). I’ll go with this one for Anthony Perkins performance.

Wednesday, November 25 9:45 a.m. Heart of a Dog (2015). This looks like an odd film by Laurie Anderson. Replaced in Canada with Challenge to Lassie (1949).

Tuesday, November 24/25 3 a.m. 27 Missing Kisses (2000). Eastern European film from Georgia.