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Steven Mears

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

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)