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Steven Mears
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
TCM Diary: Old Men, New Westerns
By
Steven Mears
July 1, 2016
Long riders: on the '70s revisionism of Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Blake Edwards, and John Huston
TCM Diary: Olivia de Havilland
By
Steven Mears
July 1, 2016
In honor of the actor's 100th birthday, a look back at her complex interpretations of vulnerable women
TCM Diary: Robert Ryan
By
Steven Mears
June 8, 2016
One man alone: exploring the actor's embattled strength in
God’s Little Acre
,
About Mrs. Leslie
, and more
TCM Diary: The Tender Trap (1955)
By
Steven Mears
June 1, 2016
Band of gold: as part of our new collaboration with Turner Classic Movies, an appreciation of Frank Sinatra's comedy of marriage
TCM Diary: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
By
Steven Mears
June 1, 2016
Stage to screen: Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s bruising family drama gives Katharine Hepburn one of her richest roles
Short Takes: Tikkun
By
Steven Mears
May 3, 2016
(Avishai Sivan, Israel, 2015)
Short Takes: Remember
By
Steven Mears
March 3, 2016
(Atom Egoyan, Canada/Germany, 2015)
On Sidney Poitier in Edge of the City (1957)
By
Steven Mears
February 26, 2016
As part of our series of actor appreciations, a look at an undersung role by the award-winning trailblazer
On Debbi Morgan in Eve’s Bayou (1997)
By
Steven Mears
February 12, 2016
Second sight: Debbi Morgan upstages Samuel L. Jackson in Kasi Lemmons’s 1997 Southern Gothic, part of our Black History Month appreciation of outstanding performances
Rep Diary: The Letter x 2
By
Steven Mears
January 25, 2016
Time makes the heart grow nastier: from Jeanne Eagels to Bette Davis, what happened to the classic antiheroine of the W. Somerset Maugham play
Review: The Hateful Eight
By
Steven Mears
January 4, 2016
(Quentin Tarantino, U.S., 2015)
In Memoriam: Haskell Wexler
By
Steven Mears
December 29, 2015
The varied stylings of an innovator in realism, one of New Hollywood's key cinematographers, and a robust voice for liberal causes
Interview: Kent Jones
By
Steven Mears
November 30, 2015
Common ground: the director of
Hitchcock/Truffaut
examines the legendary interview with and the varied influence of "The Master of Suspense"
Short Takes: Trumbo
By
Steven Mears
November 4, 2015
(Jay Roach, U.S., 2015)
Short Takes: Pawn Sacrifice
By
Steven Mears
September 3, 2015
(Edward Zwick, U.S., 2014)
Frank at 100: Sinatra on Screen
By
Steven Mears
July 27, 2015
Beyond the cool cat: a look at the performer’s stirring roles in a screen career still too often lost in the music
Review: The End of the Tour
By
Steven Mears
June 30, 2015
(James Ponsoldt, U.S., 2015)
The Wonderful World of Welles: No Nuke Orson
By
Steven Mears
May 15, 2015
In honor of the centennial of the actor/writer/director/cartoonist/activist/magician's birth, a rare project launched at Welles' alma mater
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