Late Showing https://aleggarco.com/ 2026-08-29T09:00:00Z The Lady Vanishes on a Hot Nighthttps://aleggarco.com/2026/the-lady-vanishes-on-a-hot-night/2026-08-29T09:00:00ZHitchcock’s 1938 train comedy-thriller watched with the windows open and the fan running, and the realization that the first twenty minutes are a farce. Local Hero and the Art of Not Much Happeninghttps://aleggarco.com/2026/local-hero-and-the-art-of-not-much-happening/2026-04-11T09:00:00ZBill Forsyth’s 1983 comedy about an oil company man sent to buy a Scottish village, and why its unhurried first act felt like a holiday. The Apartment in Decemberhttps://aleggarco.com/2025/the-apartment-in-december/2025-12-14T09:00:00ZBilly Wilder’s 1960 comedy-drama about a lonely insurance clerk who lends out his flat, watched in the week before Christmas when it hits hardest. Ikiru and the Weight of a Rubber Stamphttps://aleggarco.com/2025/ikiru-and-the-weight-of-a-rubber-stamp/2025-09-07T09:00:00ZAkira Kurosawa’s 1952 film about a city official who learns he is ill, and how its first act about bureaucracy prepared me for nothing that followed. Harold and Maude at a Funeralhttps://aleggarco.com/2025/harold-and-maude-at-a-funeral/2025-03-22T09:00:00ZHal Ashby’s 1971 comedy about a young man who stages his own deaths and the old woman he meets at a stranger’s burial, watched on a wet March Saturday. Night of the Hunter with the Lamp Offhttps://aleggarco.com/2024/night-of-the-hunter-with-the-lamp-off/2024-10-05T09:00:00ZCharles Laughton’s only film as director, from 1955, with Robert Mitchum as a preacher who knows about hidden money, watched in early October with the heating not yet on.