Tag Archives: Austria

June 28, 1914: “But if ever a man went anywhere of his own free will, Franz Ferdinand went to Sarajevo.”

Posted on June 28, 2025 by sheila

June 28, 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie – setting out in their motorcade in Sarajevo that fateful morning, as the assassins, unseen, move into position. Here are two excerpts from Rebecca West’s towering Black Lamb and Grey … Continue reading →

Posted in On This Day | Tagged Austria, Balkans, Rebecca West, war, WWI | 8 Comments

For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love

Posted on March 8, 2025 by sheila

I post edited versions of this every year. I add names. I take names off if I feel like it. I enjoy compiling it. It’s not just about enjoyment. As women’s rights are up for grabs more than ever, like … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Art/Photography, Directors, Personal, writers | Tagged A.S. Byatt, Abigail Adams, Agnes Varda, Aline MacMahon, Amy Heckerling, Ann Savage, Anna Karina, Anne Frank, Anne V. Coates, Annie Proulx, art, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Austria, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Bibi Andersson, Brazil, Britney Spears, Busby Berkeley, Camille Paglia, Canada, Carole Lombard, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Rampling, China, Croatia, Diane Keaton, Dolly Parton, Drew Barrymore, Dubravka Ugrešić, Edie Sedgwick, Ellen von Unwerth, England, Etta James, Eve Babitz, France, Frances Farmer, Gena Rowlands, George Eliot, Georgia, Germany, Gloria Grahame, Golshifteh Farahani, Greta Garbo, Greta Gerwig, Harriet Andersson, Hediyeh Tehrani, Hong Kong, Ida Lupino, Ingrid Thulin, Iran, Ireland, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Japan, Jean Arthur, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Clayburgh, Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, Joanna Hogg, Josephine Decker, Judy Garland, Julie Christie, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kay Francis, Keri Hulme, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Dern, Laurette Taylor, Leila Hatami, Lily Tomlin, Liv Ullmann, Louise Glück, Madeleine L'Engle, Madeline Kahn, Maggie Cheung, Maggie Smith, Marianne Moore, Marilyn Monroe, Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Maud Gonne, Mélanie Laurent, Mia Hansen-Løve, Nancy Savoca, Natalie Portman, Nina Hoss, Nina Simone, Olivia Laing, Olympia Dukakis, Patricia Highsmith, Pauline Kael, photography, Poland, Rebecca West, Romania, Rosalind Russell, Russia, Sandrine Bonnaire, Shabnam Toloui, Shirley Jackson, Sophia Takal, South Korea, Spain, Supernatural, Sweden, Tana French, Taraneh Alidoosti, The Netherlands, Tiffany Haddish, Tina Turner, Tuesday Weld, Wanda Jackson, women directors | 106 Comments

2024 Books Read

Posted on December 30, 2024 by sheila

1. Brotherhood of Tyrants: Manic Depression and Absolute Power, by D. Jablow Hershman I was talking with the doctor who helps me manage my bipolar. He saved my life back in 2013. Well, it was a group effort. He knows … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, James Joyce | Tagged Austria, Barbra Streisand, Biography, books about Hollywood, books read, Carole Lombard, Christopher Hitchens, Elvis Presley, England, entertainment biography, essays, fiction, George Orwell, Germany, Hitler, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jonathan Swift, Lorrie Moore, Mary Shelley, Memoirs, nonfiction, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Highsmith, Philip Larkin, poetry, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, scripts, Shakespeare, Stalin, Thomas Jefferson, WWII | 5 Comments

2024 Year in Review

Posted on December 27, 2024 by sheila

Here’s a roundup of most of the things I’ve written this year: here on my site, for Rogerebert.com, for my newsletter, and for my new column at Liberties Journal. Every year it’s the same thing. I spend so much time … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Books, Movies, Music | Tagged Alain Delon, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brenda Lee, Carl Perkins, Carole Lombard, Charlie Rich, Chile, comedy, Croatia, Denmark, documentary, drama, Dubravka Ugrešić, Edna O'Brien, Elvis Presley, England, France, friends, Gena Rowlands, Gene Vincent, Glen Powell, historical drama, horror, India, Indigo Girls, Ireland, James Burton, Jensen Ackles, John Cassavetes, Liberties, Mia Wasikowska, musicals, newsletter, Nicole Kidman, Opening Night, Radu Jude, reviews, Ricky Nelson, Robert De Niro, Romania, Sam Phillips, screwball comedy, silent films, Spain, Supernatural, Tennessee Williams, Tilda Swinton, Two-Character Play, women directors, year in writing, Yugoslavia | 5 Comments

“I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” — Rebecca West

Posted on December 21, 2024 by sheila

It’s her birthday today. It is hard to talk about her without referencing the generations of writers she inspired, all of whom admit their debt. Robert Kaplan is the most open about it (in Balkan Ghosts, which launched his career, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, On This Day, writers | Tagged Austria, Balkans, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, France, George Bernard Shaw, Germany, Katherine Mansfield, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, politics, Rebecca West, Roman empire, Russia, Serbia, W.B. Yeats, war, Yugoslavia | 21 Comments

March 2024 Viewing Diary

Posted on April 17, 2024 by sheila

Conspiracy (2001; d. Frank Pierson) I went down a little Wannsee Conference rabbit hole so figured I’d re-watch this chilling nasty little movie. Lured (1947; d. Douglas Sirk) I had never seen this. I love discovering new Douglas Sirks! This … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Australia, Austria, Boris Karloff, Carole Lombard, documentary, Douglas Sirk, drama, England, film noir, Fred MacMurray, Fredric March, George Sanders, Germany, historical drama, horror, Howard Hawks, Indigo Girls, John Barrymore, Kay Francis, Lucille Ball, musicals, Pre-Code, Radu Jude, Ralph Bellamy, Romania, romantic drama, screwball comedy, The Netherlands, William Powell, William Wellman, women directors, WWII | 12 Comments

Review: Club Zero (2024)

Posted on March 15, 2024 by sheila

A creepy unnerving movie about fanaticism and … eating disorders, basically. Jessica Hausner’s films are really interesting. Definitely recommend this one, as difficult as it sometimes is. I reviewed for Ebert.

Posted in Movies | Tagged Austria, drama, Mia Wasikowska, reviews, women directors | Leave a comment

2023 Books Read

Posted on December 31, 2023 by sheila

I think I might have read more books by non-American authors than American this year. Countries represented below: Austria, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, Ireland, France, Russia, Colombia. I revisited some old favorites, which I will continue to do in … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, James Joyce | Tagged A.S. Byatt, Aline MacMahon, Amongst Women, Austria, Barbra Streisand, Biography, books read, Cary Grant, children's books, Chile, Christopher Hitchens, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Czeslaw Milosz, Dubliners, Dubravka Ugrešić, Elinor Lipman, England, essays, Eve Babitz, fiction, France, Frank Sinatra, friends, George Orwell, Germany, Henry James, Hungary, Hunter S. Thompson, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, James Salter, Jeanette Winterson, John McGahern, Judy Garland, Lives of the Saints, Marcel Proust, Mark Danielewski, Mary Gaitskill, Memoirs, Nancy Lemann, Nick Tosches, nonfiction, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, Philip Larkin, poetry, Poland, politics, Rebecca West, Russia, Shakespeare, Spain, Stefan Zweig, The Fiery Pantheon, Tom Wolfe, Ulysses, Victor Serge, war, WWI, WWII, Yugoslavia | 16 Comments

December 2022 Viewing Diary

Posted on January 7, 2023 by sheila

The Whale (2022; d. Darren Aronofsky) I thought it was appalling, and not for the obvious reasons. His body is viewed as literally a movie monster, with all these horror-movie shots of his gigantic ankles, etc.) It felt tired and … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged action movies, animation, Austria, Brad Pitt, Brian De Palma, Charles Dickens, Christopher Walken, Claude Chabrol, Claudette Colbert, comedy, coming of age, Czechoslovakia, Darren Aronofsky, David Bowie, documentary, drama, England, France, Germany, heist movies, historical drama, Hungary, India, Isabelle Huppert, Kentucker Audley, Natasha Richardson, Paul Schrader, Paul Thomas Anderson, Preston Sturges, Punch-Drunk Love, Russia, Sandrine Bonnaire, screwball comedy, thrillers, Ukraine, war, women directors | 3 Comments

Movies I Loved in 2022

Posted on December 12, 2022 by sheila

It is the month of Top 10 Lists. I’ve submitted a few to different sites. And … each list is slightly different. Because I’m not a list person and I don’t rank things and I really don’t like to argue … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged action movies, Argentina, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Austria, Baz Luhrmann, biopic, comedy, coming of age, documentary, drama, Elvis Presley, England, France, Georgia, historical drama, India, Iranian film, Jackass, Jafar Panahi, Kentucker Audley, poetry, Poland, romantic comedy, romantic drama, Scotland, South Korea, Steven Spielberg, Sweden, thrillers, true crime, Ukraine, war movies, women directors, WWI | 30 Comments

Tag Archives: Austria

June 28, 1914: “But if ever a man went anywhere of his own free will, Franz Ferdinand went to Sarajevo.”

For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love

2024 Books Read

“I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” — Rebecca West

March 2024 Viewing Diary

Review: Club Zero (2024)

2023 Books Read

December 2022 Viewing Diary

Movies I Loved in 2022

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