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TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Marie: A True Story and A World Apart

By Michael Sragow
April 21, 2020
Bursting bubbles: Sissy Spacek and Barbara Hershey star in two exemplary ’80s films about resourceful women standing up for their beliefs

TCM Diary: Coma

By Michael Sragow
April 7, 2020
It’s serious: Michael Crichton’s 1978 smash is a brisk, scary, clever thriller about a body-snatching scam featuring a magnetic Genevieve Bujold

TCM Diary: Freedom on Our Mind

By Justin Stewart
March 3, 2020
We shall overcome: two documentaries that place current fights for justice in crucial historical context

TCM Diary: Robert Krasker, Master of Light

By Bruce Bennett
February 13, 2020
Shadows and fog: a trio of classics offer a reminder of a great craftsman’s indelible contribution to the art form

TCM Diary: Jane Fonda in the 1960s

By Beatrice Loayza
January 16, 2020
Early warnings: at the start of the ’60s, Fonda was a paragon of the mid-century woman’s sexual and moral ambivalence

TCM Diary: Monterey Pop

By Justin Stewart
December 12, 2019
My generation: D.A. Pennebaker’s concert doc is shot through with Summer of Love optimism

TCM Diary: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

By Chris Shields
October 29, 2019
Baggy monsters: Charles B. Pierce’s 1976 proto-slasher film provided the basic structural DNA for countless imitators

TCM Diary: Into the Sunset

By Justin Stewart
September 10, 2019
Don't look back: two films, The Harder They Fall and The Defector, featuring stars in their final big-screen performances

TCM Diary: Executive Suite

By Bruce Bennett
August 22, 2019
Hostile takeover: Robert Wise’s 1954 drama climaxes in a boardroom exchange of ballots, bluster, and bromides

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