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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) may not have been the best comedy but it sure had a few good funny bits in it. You could say that most of the reoccurring characters like Jonathan Winters and Ethel Merman were supporting roles. To fit the bill of this thread I would think that they would have to be non reoccurring characters. The two desert garage mechanics, Marvin Kaplin as Irwin (left) and Arnold Stang as Ray (right) made a great comic team. It is too bad that they didn't feature together in more films as England's Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne had done.

Monday, March 2 10:30 a.m. Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Great David Lean film with one of my favourite supporting performances of all time by Omar Sharif.

I always find this strange when it happens. A foreign film wins the best overall picture prize but fails even when nominated to win the foreign film award. The London Critics did this in 2018 as well with Roma and Cold War. The winner of the 2019 London Critics Circle Best Picture Award was …. Parasite (2019) Joon-ho Bong, South Korea **** The 2019 London Critics Circle Foreign Language Film Award …. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Celine Sciamma, France **** Monos (2019) Alejandro Landes, Columbia Pain and Glory (2019) Pedro Almodovar, Spain Parasite (2019) Joon-ho Bong, South Korea

Here is another small but pivotal role that Joyce Redman excelled in: Iago's wife, Emilia in Othello (1965). It is such a well written part for an actress. Go figure! Here is another lady who did well with the same role... Fay Compton as Emilia is The Tragedy of Othello (1952).

Sunday, March 1/2 4 a.m. Great Expectations (1946). Finlay Currie as Magwitch and Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham are standouts in this David Lean classic.

2006 Tired of Kissing Frogs (2006) Jore Colon, Mexico A young woman finds out her boy friend is cheating on her so she dumps him and goes on an internet inspired dating rampage. When she meets Mr. Right ye old 30’s Hollywood comic misunderstandings steps in. You know, when one party sees the other with someone of the opposite sex and presumes the worst. They take flight rather than straightening things out. Pleasant enough but ultimately routine rom com. The humour is on the silly side in what is otherwise supposed to be a believable movie. Doses of over sentimentality in all too expected moments doesn’t help either.

My condolences to Ben and his family.

As much as I love Margaret Rutherford, I thought Joyce Redman should have taken home the Oscar for her performance as Jenny Jones/Mrs. Waters in Tom Jones (1963). Edith Evans, Diane Cilento and Joan Greenwood were also great in this film.

Saturday, February 29 12:15 a.m. The Sunshine Boys (1975). though I’m not particularly a fan of Neil Simon I saw this play in London with the late Richard Griffiths and Danny DeVito and marvelled at how De Vito just had to walk on the stage and the entire audience burst into laughter.

Gene Wilder as Eugene Grizzard and Evans Evans as Velma Davis in Bonnie and Clyde (1967). With lesser actors this sequence might have ended up on the cutting room floor.

Friday, February 28 8 p.m. Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Nicholas Ray hit with James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo.

Alright!

And she probably deserves to come up again a few more times.

The 2019 Broadcast Critics Best Picture and Best Foreign Film …. Parasite (2019) Joon-ho Bong, South Korea **** Atlantique (2019) Mati Doup, Senegal Les Miserables (2019) Ladj Ly, France Pain and Glory (2019) Pedro Almodovar, Spain Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Celine Sciamma, France

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Telly Savalas' Oscar nominated performance as Feto Gomez in Birdman of Alacatraz (1962). His part might be small enough to quality too. It certainly helped launch Telly's career.

Thelma Ritter. Which film or films to pick is the question. Arguably, her part in some like Rear Window are probably a bit too big to qualify but her performance as Elizabeth Stroud, Burt's possessive mother in Birdman of Alacatraz (1962) certainly fits this bill.

Thursday, February 27 midnight. One Million B.C. (1940). No Raquel Welch in this version but the prehistoric babes are still better looking than the apes in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Replaced in Canada with Blondes at Work (1938).

Forest Whitaker in his career launching role as Amos in The Color of Money (1986). This could have been a small, nothing to speak of part, but Whitaker steals the scene with subtle brilliance as he hustles the hustler.

Wednesday, February 26 10 a.m. They Were Expendable (1945). Quite low key WWII film by John Ford. One of Robert Montgomery’s best.

"I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed"

It's high time this criticism of the President of the Untied States stopped!

2004 5. Cronicas (2004) Sebastian Cordero, Mexico Superior thriller about a Spanish language news reporter out of Miami (John Leguizamo) who travels to Equador to cover the search for a child serial killer and rapist known as “the Monster of Babahoya.” Damian Alcazar (above left) won the Best Actor Award in Mexico for his performance plays the main suspect. Recommended.

Before and after Kathleen Bryon as Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus (1947) gives Deborah Kerr a glimpse of the madness that may await her if she stays at the nunnery.

Tuesday, February 25 6:30 a.m. That Forsyte Woman (1949). Errol Flynn without his cutlass.