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TCM Alert: Renoir and Ophuls

TCM Alert: Renoir and Ophuls

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Jan 15, 2012
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Two films on TCM this month demand that you record them or, if you aren't equipped to do that, that you find someone with a DVR who is willing to take bribes.

The Siren's sole viewing of the 1946 Diary of a Chambermaid, directed by Jean Renoir, happened years ago via a VHS tape that was in crappy shape even by the crappy standards of VHS rentals at the t…

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