{"id":78135,"date":"2025-10-13T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/78135\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:18:09","slug":"john-carpenter-recommends-two-films-to-watch-on-tcm-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/78135\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carpenter Recommends Two Films to Watch on TCM This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Carpenter is an undisputed master of horror, but his taste in cinema extends beyond the genre.<\/p>\n

TCM has programmed a number of horror classics and hidden gems for the month of October, but Carpenter\u2019s personal recommendations lean more into crime and film noir.<\/p>\n

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The Asphalt Jungle<\/p>\n

\u201cAsphalt Jungle is one of the great all-time crime movies,\u201d Carpenter comments. \u201cDirected by John Huston, with Sterling Hayden in an amazing performance. I love that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 1950 film noir, a major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck, and solid police work cause everything to unravel.<\/p>\n

Huston directs from a script he co-wrote with Ben Maddow, based on the 1949 novel by W. R. Burnett.<\/p>\n

Hayden stars with Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, and Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles.<\/p>\n

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Gaslight<\/p>\n

\u201cGaslight, 1944, Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Amazing movie and an amazing performance by Ingrid Bergman,\u201d says Carpenter. \u201cWhat a dish! Oh, she was beautiful and a great, great actress.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the psychological thriller, 10 years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.<\/p>\n

George Cukor (My Fair Lady) directs from a script by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston, based on the play Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Boyer and Bergman star alongside Joseph Cotten, May Whitty, and Angela Lansbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Carpenter is an undisputed master of horror, but his taste in cinema extends beyond the genre. TCM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,51234,61,60,51235,270,51236,51237],"class_list":{"0":"post-78135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaslight","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-carpenter","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-tcm","15":"tag-the-asphalt-jungle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}