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Sunday, June 28 8 p.m. Two For the Road (1967). Decent Stanley Donen film with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney.

Saturday, June 27 10 a.m. Popeye: I’ll Never Crow Again (1941). 4 a.m. Baby Boom (1987). Not a bad effort. With Diane Keaton and Harold Ramus. The gag about Harold wanting to sell the apartment rather than clean it is still with me 30 odd years later.

Summaries Londoner Adam Jones is stuck in a dead end job; lives alone with his cat and spends his free time obsessing over the latest conspiracy theories on the Internet. Taking an experimental drug for his epilepsy, manufactured by the Pfenal corporation, Adam begins suffering from seizures, black outs and terrifying visions. When he wakes up in a hotel room in Mexico missing a kidney, Adam becomes convinced that he's unwittingly stumbled into the middle of a conspiracy. Drugged by mysterious paramedics, Adam finds himself back in his London flat. Just as he assumes it's just been a bad dream, the pain of a scar on his back serves to convince him that something dark and disturbing is indeed happening. Worse still, Adam's one friend at work, Tracey, informs him that he's been missing from work for a week and as a result he's been fired. ....

My Twentieth Century (1989) Hungary Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan, living under the powder-keg Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Separate families adopted the impoverished orphans. At the dawn of the 20th Century the double-blind experiment hits crescendo for Dora & Lili, born the evening Edison unveiled his incandescent bulb. In 1900, technology was accelerating, could women's rights and national self-determination keep pace?

Friday, June 26 9:45 p.m. The Watermelon Woman (1995). Quite relevant today and I’m interested to see how it is handled. 5:30 a.m. The House In the Middle (1954). Military test demonstrate the dangers of poor home maintenance in the event of a nuclear attack in this short film.

Maurice Chevalier in Folies Bergere de Paris (1935) and Danny Kaye in the 1951 remake, On the Riviera

Thursday, June 25 Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple … 2 p.m. Murder, She Said (1961) 3:30 p.m. Murder at the Gallop (1963) 5:15 p.m. Murder Most Foul (1964)

Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel as two pairs of mismatched twins in Our Relations (1936).

Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder as two pairs of mismatched twins in Start the Revolution Without Me (1970).

Wednesday, June 24 1:30 a.m. The Blue Lagoon (1980). The 1949 original with Jean Simmons and Donald Houston was scheduled to be shown at BFI Southbank London but was cancelled due to covid-19. Each month the BFI curator shows a film for the ‘Projecting the Archive’ series. They pick a film from a list where the rights to replicate on dvd are not available. I’ve seen a few Elisabeth Bergner films this way including Escape Me Never (1935).

Donald Meek Jimmy Cricket

England's Stolen Life (1939) with Elisabeth Bergner as the twins whom Bette Davis later played in A Stolen Life (1946).

Mexico's The Other One (1946) with Dolores Del Rio in the Bette Davis role from the remake, Dead Ringer (1964).

Tuesday, June 23 6 a.m. Tiger Bay (1959). Hayley Mills break out film. The part was originally written for a young boy.

The 2019 Boston Society of Film Critics Best Foreign Film Award … Parasite (2019) Joon-ho Bong, South Korea

Monday, June 22 9:30 p.m. Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1989).

Sunday, June 21 3:30 p.m. The Entertainer (1960). Great cast in this one about a cheeseball music hall showman who is well past his sell-by date. Laurence Oliver, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Albert Finney and Alan Bates.

My favourite Ian Holm performance is as Desmond Cussen in the 1985 film, Dance With a Stranger which stars Miranda Richardson.

Saturday, June 20 10 a.m. Popeye: Pest Pilot (1941). 4:45 a.m. Primary (1960). JFK and Humphrey in Wisconsin.

Friday, June 19 10 p.m. They Live By Night (1949). Nicholas Ray film with Farley Granger. I especially liked Jay C. Flippen in this one.

Thursday, June 18 11:15 p.m. Knife In the Water (1962). Interesting Roman Polanski film.

Wednesday, June 17 4:15 p.m. A Special Day (1977). I wasn’t too crazy about this one when I saw it years ago but it is worth another look. With Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

Tuesday, June 16 6 a.m. Gangway For Tomorrow (1943). Anthology film featuring a young Robert Ryan.