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TCM Diary

TCM Diary: David and Lisa

By Steven Mears
November 13, 2017
Extra time: Frank and Eleanor Perry’s tender portrait of two patients in a mental asylum rejects disillusionment and cliche

TCM Diary: Don’t Fight The Power (1968)

By Robert Horton
October 10, 2017
Brain fever: Byron Haskin’s psychic thriller is torn between crumbling Hollywood kitsch and counterculture shlock

TCM Diary: Ages of Innocence

By Steven Mears
September 29, 2017
Lost in the game: on the two very different screen adaptations of Edith Wharton’s sumptuous and tormented novel of Gilded Age New York

TCM Diary: Ruby Gentry

By Robert Horton
September 12, 2017
Wayward woman: King Vidor’s 1952 tale of small town politics is contradictory but enduringly magnetic

TCM Diary: Robert Benchley

By Steven Mears
September 1, 2017
Learning to laugh: a man of letters who brought his unique brand of humor to the screen

TCM Diary: None but the Lonely Heart + All Fall Down

By Steven Mears
August 18, 2017
The mother lode: esteemed American playwrights Clifford Odets and William Inge adapted works for the screen that dealt with complicated relationships between sons and mums

TCM Diary: Elvis, Actor

By Sheila O'Malley
August 14, 2017
The wonder of you: the king of rock ‘n’ roll knew that his talent lay in being himself, shining even in formulaic vehicles

TCM Diary: Gerd Oswald

By Nick Pinkerton
August 11, 2017
Expressive esoterica: the director of A Kiss Before Dying, Crime of Passion, and Brainwashed had a knack for depicting misfits

TCM Diary: Halloween in July

By Chris Shields
July 13, 2017
The science of shriek: the rampage of Kyle MacLachlan in The Hidden and two other frightful delights

TCM Diary: Brian Donlevy x 2

By Steven Mears
July 3, 2017
Got to be real: the leading man of Vidor’s An American Romance and Lang’s Hangmen Also Die! brought his own unorthodox charm to each