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Sheila O'Malley
Present Tense: Female Comedians
By
Sheila O'Malley
August 23, 2019
Yes, and: why comedy and improv often produce some of the greatest actors
Present Tense: Out of the Blue
By
Sheila O'Malley
August 8, 2019
Into the black: Dennis Hopper's doom-ridden, death-stalked film takes punk rock at its word
Present Tense: Back-ting
By
Sheila O'Malley
July 25, 2019
Can’t look away: the nearly lost art of acting with back to the camera
Present Tense: What Happened Was…
By
Sheila O'Malley
July 11, 2019
Alone together: Tom Noonan’s two-hander is an unblinking look at the havoc loneliness can wreak on humans
TCM Diary: The Chemistry Set
By
Sheila O'Malley
July 2, 2019
Explosive combinations: the elective affinities at work in Jack Conway’s
Love Crazy
and George Stevens’s
The More the Merrier
Present Tense: Sylvia Plath Goes to the Movies
By
Sheila O'Malley
June 27, 2019
Something fresh and strange: newly released letters reveal the prominent presence of movies in the poet’s life
Present Tense: Rolling Thunder Revue
By
Sheila O'Malley
June 12, 2019
I contain multitudes: on Dylan, Whitman, and Scorsese’s new
Rolling Thunder Revue
documentary
TCM Diary: They Were Expendable
By
Sheila O'Malley
June 6, 2019
World on fire: in an increasingly dire situation, John Ford’s characters look to the skies or out to sea, hoping for intervention
Present Tense: Infinite Brando
By
Sheila O'Malley
May 31, 2019
Tennis anyone? In
Infinite Jest
, David Foster Wallace gets at the heart of Brando’s art
Present Tense: Almost Like Falling in Love
By
Sheila O'Malley
May 16, 2019
Love is a battlefield:
Aliens
’ Hicks and Ripley are an unlikely pair, but “unlikely pairs” are the bread and butter of romance, Hollywood-style
Present Tense: Frank O’Hara at the Movies
By
Sheila O'Malley
May 2, 2019
“Darkness embossed by silvery images”: the New York-School poet had a rapturous relationship with the cinema
I Know Where I’m Going
By
Sheila O'Malley
May 1, 2019
In Joanna Hogg's sublime breakout
The Souvenir
, a budding artist strives to stay true to her path despite a consuming romance
TCM Diary: Man of Aran
By
Sheila O'Malley
March 6, 2019
Truth in fiction: Robert Flaherty's 1934 "documentary" remains an astounding depiction of a landscape that still shocks and stuns
TCM Diary: Sounder
By
Sheila O'Malley
February 12, 2019
Dirt roads and green fields: remarkable performances by Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson punctuate Martin Ritt's 1972 family classic
In Memoriam: Nicolas Roeg
By
Sheila O'Malley
January 2, 2019
The cinematographer turned director blew our minds to show better what makes us tick
TCM Diary: The Canterville Ghost
By
Sheila O'Malley
October 16, 2018
Speaking of spooky: Charles Laughton excels in a superior adaptation of an Oscar Wilde yarn, American style
Review: Private Life
By
Sheila O'Malley
October 1, 2018
(Tamara Jenkins, USA, Netflix, Opening September 21)
TCM Diary: Dorothy Malone Knows
By
Sheila O'Malley
July 31, 2018
Voice of experience: the Hollywood actress brought a sense of hard-won wisdom and forthrightness to
The Big Sleep
,
Tarnished Angels
, and more
TCM Diary: High Society
By
Sheila O'Malley
June 29, 2018
The right sort: Rhode Island airs are front and center in the 1956 musical adaptation of
The Philadelphia Story
, but how does the cast measure up?
The River’s Roar
By
Sheila O'Malley
May 1, 2018
Mary Ellen Bute’s
Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
listens to the stream-of-consciousness song of a synesthetic masterwork
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