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    Shorts Program – The Tiffany Problem

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    In honour of Halloween I give you Adam Green’s The Tiffany Problem.

    If you want to check out more shorts by the director of Hatchet you can head on over to Ariescope Pictures.

  • 02 Nov

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    Something to Ponder on a Monday

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    What if Harrison Ford did not play the great space pirate, Han Solo? What if it was someone else? I know that Nick Nolte was at one time up for the role (shudder at the thought). And I think there were some others. What if Jack Burton had the part? Check out this found footage of a test audition for Kurt Russell as Han Solo. A different world, live in, we would.

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  • 02 Nov

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    Film on TV: November 2-8

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    Nearly everything’s a repeat this week, but many of them haven’t been on for months, so check anyway, there may be something worthwhile. And since there aren’t really that many exciting Newly Featured films this week, let me take the opportunity to plug Maria Full of Grace, which is one of those movies that I recommend to people all the time, whenever I can, as a sort of under the radar film that ought to be far more noticed than it is. It’s playing Sunday the 8th at 4:15pm (on IFC).

    Monday, November 2

    8:05am – IFC – Three Times
    Hsiao-hsien Hou directs this tripartite film – three stories set in three different time periods (1911, 1966, and 2005), each with the same actors, and each depicting a relationship that’s both very specific and individual and also sheds light on the mores of its respective time period. I liked the 1966 story the best, but they were all intriguing, and the contrast between them even more so.
    2005 Hong Kong. Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou. Starring: Qi Shu, Chen Chang.
    (repeats at 2:00pm, and 5:25am on the 3rd)

    12:00N – TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace
    In what is probably Capra’s zaniest, least Capra-corn-esque film, Cary Grant plays Mortimer Brewster – a perfectly normal man until he discovers that his sweet old maid aunts have accumulated several dead bodies in the basement due to poisoning lonely old men. Add in another nephew who is a serial killer, a quack plastic surgeon, and an uncle who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and Mortimer’s got his hands full trying to keep his family secrets away from the girl he loves. It’s over-the-top, sure, but you gotta love the crazy.
    1944 USA. Director: Frank Capra. Starring: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre.

    8:00pm – TCM – Vertigo
    James Stewart is a detective recovering from a vertigo-inducing fall who’s asked by an old friend to help his wife, who has developed strange behavior. Hitchcock plays with doubling, fate, and obsession, all the while creating one of his moodiest and most mesmerizing films. And watch for a great supporting turn by Barbara Bel Geddes as Stewart’s long-suffering best friend.
    1958 USA. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
    Must See

    10:15pm – TCM – North by Northwest
    Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets mistaken for George Kaplan and pulled into an elaborate web of espionage in one of Hitchcock’s most enjoyable and funniest thrillers. So many great scenes it’s impossible to list them all.
    1959 USA. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau.
    Must See

    12:45am (3rd) – TCM – Anatomy of a Murder
    One of the best courtroom dramas ever made – James Stewart vs. George C. Scott as lawyers on a murder/rape trial that may not be quite what it seems. And that’s aside from the top-notch jazz score by Duke Ellington, which is in itself reason enough to see the film.
    1959 USA. Director: Otto Preminger. Starring: James Stewart, George C. Scott, Lee Remick.
    Must See

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