{"id":124375,"date":"2016-12-16T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=124375"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:25:21","slug":"for-film-comment-the-night-digger-1971-and-alice-sweet-alice-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=124375","title":{"rendered":"For Film Comment: Reviews of <i>The Night Digger<\/i> (1971) and <i>Alice, Sweet Alice<\/i> (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=124376\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-124376\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p1001_p_v8_aa.jpg\" alt=\"p1001_p_v8_aa\" width=\"960\" height=\"1440\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p1001_p_v8_aa.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p1001_p_v8_aa-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p1001_p_v8_aa-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p1001_p_v8_aa-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/p1001_p_v8_aa-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=124377\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-124377\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-night-digger-movie-poster-1971-1020237770-1.jpg\" alt=\"the-night-digger-movie-poster-1971-1020237770\" width=\"769\" height=\"580\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-night-digger-movie-poster-1971-1020237770-1.jpg 769w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-night-digger-movie-poster-1971-1020237770-1-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-night-digger-movie-poster-1971-1020237770-1-200x151.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-night-digger-movie-poster-1971-1020237770-1-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-night-digger-movie-poster-1971-1020237770-1-400x302.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI had so much fun watching, researching, and writing up these two (somewhat) little-known films, <i>The Night Digger<\/i> (1971), starring Patricia Neal (adaptation by her husband Roald Dahl: her second role post-stroke), and <i>Alice, Sweet Alice<\/i>, a bonkers religious-horror movie set in Paterson, New Jersey. Both gorgeous in their own ways. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/blog\/tcm-diary-night-digger-alice-sweet-alice\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I wrote up both <i>The Night Digger<\/i> and <i>Alice Sweet Alice<\/i> for Film Comment&#8217;s TCM Diary<\/a>. (Showing times on TCM listed at the bottom of the piece.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much fun watching, researching, and writing up these two (somewhat) little-known films, The Night Digger (1971), starring Patricia Neal (adaptation by her husband Roald Dahl: her second role post-stroke), and Alice, Sweet Alice, a bonkers religious-horror movie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=124375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2546,2208,2548,749,2668,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148012,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124375\/revisions\/148012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}