FILMS on Friday is like a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a vest. And this week it doesn't exist.
Yes, that's right, for the first time in a while I've cut you adrift, without nary a night star to guide you in your perilous journey through the unsorted wheat and chaff of the week's listings. (If you think I'm overstating the case, you should see the letters I've written from distraught viewers.)
I'm currently enjoying a three-day training course far from Faithful Ole' Pooder (as I don't call my computer), which is essentially like the montage at the start of
Rocky III (sandy beaches, slow-motion jogging, tight shorts), designed to prime me for some forthcoming exams. Apparently my travails
are being turned into a movie.
Still, Films on Friday is categorically Not Going Anywhere, and will return on October 9, with the usual mixture of bad reviews and even worse jokes.
I hope the accompanying photo from
His Girl Friday (I admit it, it isn't really me, it's Cary Grant) will compensate for the lack of a movie guide in the meantime - as if that was necessary.
And here's our
DVD of the Week archive, in case you're short of something to read:
#1 - Let's Get Lost (Bruce Weber, 1988)
#2 - Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973)
#3 - The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
#4 - The Raven (Lew Landers, 1935)
#5 - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
#6 - Written and Directed by Preston Sturges (Preston Sturges, 1940-44)
#7 – The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
#8 - Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)#9 - Cache (Michael Haneke, 2005)#10 - No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese, 2005)#11 - Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)#12 – A Star Is Born (George Cukor, 1954)#13 - Lady on a Train (Charles David, 1945)#14 - Just Like Heaven (Mark Waters, 2005)#15 - The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke II, 1934)#16 - The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls, 1949)#17 - Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher, 1956)Thanks for popping your head in. See you next Friday.
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