Tag Archives: Cary Grant

January 2022 Viewing Diary

Posted on February 14, 2022 by sheila

Crossfire (1947; d. Edward Dmytryk) Went on a little Robert Mitchum kick, thanks to the Criterion Channel. Crossfire came out the same year as Gentleman’s Agreement, and both films deal with anti-Semitism, which was very much on American minds at … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art, Asghar Farhadi, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, documentary, drama, Elvis Presley, film noir, Gloria Grahame, historical drama, Iranian film, Ireland, Isabelle Huppert, Jane Austen, Jean Arthur, Jean Harlow, Joachim Trier, Joan Fontaine, Johnny Flynn, literary adaptation, Mary Astor, Mildred Dunnock, musicals, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, romantic drama, Steven Spielberg, Sweden, thrillers, William Powell, women directors | 14 Comments

2021 Books Read

Posted on January 1, 2022 by sheila

I lived at three addresses this year. I moved twice. In the middle of a pandemic. It’s been a year of upheaval, transition, as well as endurance. For most of this year, the majority of my stuff was in storage. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged Austria, Balkans, Billy Wilder, Biography, books read, Cary Grant, Croatia, Czeslaw Milosz, David McCullough, Dubravka Ugrešić, Edvard Radzinsky, Elinor Lipman, England, essays, Eve Babitz, Evelyn Waugh, fiction, Germany, Guillermo del Toro, Hitler, Howard Hawks, Ireland, Italy, Liz Phair, Memoirs, Nancy Lemann, Nick Tosches, nonfiction, Olivia Laing, Poland, politics, Robert Conquest, Robert Kaplan, Russia, Sergei Kirov, Stalin, Sweden, Thomas Mann, Tom Wolfe, Vladimir Nabokov, war, WWII, Yugoslavia | 1 Comment

Stuff I’ve Been Reading

Posted on August 7, 2021 by sheila

It’s been a while. Been a very busy summer. Family vacation as we do every year. Reunions with family after the lockdown. Tears when hugging aunts and uncles. New job, new digs, lots of change. Lots of writing too! Less … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, writers | Tagged Biography, Cary Grant, Czeslaw Milosz, Eve Babitz, fiction, Ireland, Memoirs, Poland, politics, Stalin, stuff I've been reading, war | 2 Comments

Now on Criterion: Bringing Up Baby

Posted on July 8, 2021 by sheila

The Criterion Collection just released Howard Hawks’ 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby, in a new 4k restoration. The special features are EXTENSIVE, including a video-essay on Cary Grant by Scott Eyman (author of the new biography of Grant), as … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Katharine Hepburn, reviews, screwball comedy | 4 Comments

April 2021 Viewing Diary

Posted on May 2, 2021 by sheila

Jewel Robbery (1932; d. William Dieterle) This glittering pre-Code, starring William Powell as a jewel thief, and Kay Francis as a married woman in love with her jewels, is such a subversive delight. Powell is devastatingly charming and Francis is … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, comedy, Costa-Gavras, David Lynch, documentary, drama, England, France, Greece, historical drama, horror, Jack Nicholson, Joanna Hogg, Joel McCrea, Kay Francis, literary adaptation, Martin Scorsese, Memphis, Monte Hellman, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Pre-Code, Roman Polanski, Russia, sci-fi, short films, Stalag 17, Tilda Swinton, Ukraine, Warren Oates, westerns, William Holden, William Powell, women directors | 15 Comments

Criterion July releases announced

Posted on April 16, 2021 by sheila

And every single one (La Piscine, Working Girls, Deep Cover, The Mirror and Bringing Up Baby) is exciting and a welcome addition to the Criterion library. I was thrilled to have been asked to write the booklet essay for Howard … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Katharine Hepburn | Leave a comment

January/February/March 2021 Viewing Diary

Posted on April 11, 2021 by sheila

Better late than never. I moved at the end of January – a big interstate move – so I’ve been a bit, how you say, busy. Not too busy to keep up my viewing schedule but too busy to put … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged animation, Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Reynolds, Cary Grant, children's movies, Cliff Bole, comedy, coming of age, David Mamet, documentary, drama, Eminem, England, France, Gary Cooper, Hong Kong, horror, Howard Hawks, Ireland, Irene Dunne, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson, Jean Renoir, Joe Berlinger, Julianne Moore, Katharine Hepburn, Kim Manners, Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Leo McCarey, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Maggie Cheung, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Wahlberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ralph Bellamy, Russia, sci-fi, short films, Some Like It Hot, Spain, Stanley Kubrick, Sweden, Thomas J. Wright, Tom Noonan, true crime, war movies, What Happened Was, women directors, WWII, X-Files | 23 Comments

Glowing Poisonous Milk: Two Scenes

Posted on January 4, 2021 by sheila

Suspicious-acting and potentially-evil husband carries a potentially-poisoned glass of milk upstairs to his unsuspecting wife. Little light put in glass of milk to make it glow in eerie fashion. 1. Cary Grant in Suspicion, Alfred Hitchcock (1941) 2. Bruce Campbell … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Television | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Suspicion, X-Files | 4 Comments

March 2020 Viewing Diary: A Before and After List

Posted on April 1, 2020 by sheila

I began this viewing diary in a time of innocence (and naivete) before social distancing became compulsory (or at least strongly suggested). We here were months behind schedule, due to the disgraceful anti-science buffoonery of the current administration, who do … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Cary Grant, Claude Rains, comedy, coming of age, documentary, drama, Faye Dunaway, film noir, Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, George Stevens, Germany, Jane Austen, Jean Arthur, Jerry Lewis, Jimmy Stewart, John Garfield, Johnny Depp, Johnny Flynn, Lili Taylor, literary adaptation, Natasha Richardson, Paul Schrader, romantic comedy, Supernatural, Thomas Mitchell | 9 Comments

Present Tense: On that thing we call “back-ting”

Posted on July 25, 2019 by sheila

For my latest “Present Tense” column at Film Comment, I wrote about something that’s been percolating for decades. In college, my friend Mitchell coined the phrase “back-ting” – moments where actors perform scenes with their backs to the camera (or … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Movies | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, backting, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Jafar Panahi, John Wayne, Kristen Wiig, Present Tense, William Wyler | 8 Comments

Tag Archives: Cary Grant

January 2022 Viewing Diary

2021 Books Read

Stuff I’ve Been Reading

Now on Criterion: Bringing Up Baby

April 2021 Viewing Diary

Criterion July releases announced

January/February/March 2021 Viewing Diary

Glowing Poisonous Milk: Two Scenes

March 2020 Viewing Diary: A Before and After List

Present Tense: On that thing we call “back-ting”

Categories

Archives

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Writing