Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Steven Mears

TCM Diary: Raoul Walsh Looks Back

By Steven Mears
June 12, 2017
The good ol’, bad ol’ days: the critical representations of the past in The Strawberry Blonde and They Died with Their Boots On

The Long Way Home

By Steven Mears
May 3, 2017
Five Came Back, Laurent Bouzereau, USA, 2017, Netflix

TCM Diary: Danielle Darrieux

By Steven Mears
May 1, 2017
Luxury import: on the French star's 100th birthday, a look back at her range from finely etched portrayals to klutzy antics

TCM Diary: The Great Man

By Steven Mears
April 21, 2017
One for the history books: José Ferrer directs and stars in a newsroom drama about a journalist who refuses to simply print the legend of a wholesome broadcaster

TCM Diary: Omnibus x 2

By Steven Mears
April 10, 2017
Pick your pleasure: O. Henry’s Full House and Dead of Night offer something for everybody

Short Take: Norman: The 
Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

By Steven Mears
March 3, 2017
(Joseph Cedar, USA/Israel, Sony 
Pictures Classics, Opens April 14)

TCM Diary: Wartime England

By Steven Mears
March 1, 2017
Stay calm and go to the pictures: the grace under fire of Waterloo Bridge, Mrs. Miniver, and The White Cliffs of Dover

TCM Diary: Robert Mitchum x 2

By Steven Mears
February 24, 2017
Let us now praise heavy-lidded men: on the actor's conventionally unconventional turns in The Sundowners and The Story of G.I. Joe

TCM Diary: Ava Gardner x 2

By Steven Mears
February 13, 2017
Something wild: in The Barefoot Contessa and Mogambo, the actress lends some animal intensity to otherwise fanciful plots

TCM Diary: Stars Behind Bars

By Steven Mears
January 23, 2017
Jailbirds: on the felonious pleasures of Barbara Stanwyck in Ladies They Talk About and Eleanor Parker in Caged

TCM Diary: One Potato, Two Potato + A Patch of Blue

By Steven Mears
December 30, 2016
The right to love: how two 1960s dramas portrayed interracial couples

TCM Diary: Myrna Loy’s Not Just Perfect

By Steven Mears
December 1, 2016
Good girl gone bad: in her pre-Code romps, Loy's winsome supporting roles were never thinly drawn

TCM Diary: Two from Kirk Douglas’s Century

By Steven Mears
December 1, 2016
Restless youth: on his 100th birthday, a look back at the actor's turns as rogues and other tortured souls

TCM Diary: Kaufman & Hart, Writers at Work

By Steven Mears
November 21, 2016
The act of creation: The Man Who Came to Dinner and Act One offer some crucial insights into the world’s loneliest profession

TCM Diary: Henry Fonda, American Statesman

By Steven Mears
November 7, 2016
Truth to power: on the Nebraska-born star's irreproachable men in Advise & Consent and The Best Man

TCM Diary: The Innocence of Deborah Kerr

By Steven Mears
October 14, 2016
Turn of the screw: the actress's turns as slightly damaged women in The Innocents and The Chalk Garden embraced chaos

TCM Diary: Becoming John Garfield

By Steven Mears
September 16, 2016
Not strictly method: on the actor's effortlessly dark turns in Four Daughters and The Postman Always Rings Twice

TCM Diary: Gene Hackman

By Steven Mears
September 2, 2016
Old hand: on the actor's notable and nuanced performances pre–Popeye Doyle

TCM Diary: Outcast of the Islands

By Steven Mears
August 12, 2016
Castaway: Carol Reed's adaptation of the prequel to Almayer’s Folly is as unsparing as the equatorial sun

TCM Diary: Desert Warfare

By Steven Mears
August 5, 2016
A handful of dust: on John Ford’s The Lost Patrol and Zoltán Korda’s The Four Feathers