{"id":195932,"date":"2024-12-16T16:32:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=195932"},"modified":"2025-01-12T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:40:31","slug":"for-liberties-what-was-good-about-2024-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=195932","title":{"rendered":"For Liberties: What Was Good About 2024? (in film)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sheila.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sheila.png 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sheila-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sheila-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sheila-100x56.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOver at Liberties: <a href=\"https:\/\/libertiesjournal.com\/online-articles\/what-was-good-about-2024-in-film\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my top 20 films of 2024<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Tis the season for end-of-year lists. I tend to switch them up, depending on the outlet, because I don&#8217;t get attached to my lists. But those are the stand-outs. <\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Liberties: this has been a great year because I&#8217;d been feeling a bit stagnant in my career. Hence, the newsletter. More long-form pieces. And then, from out of the sky, I am offered a column at Liberties magazine, alongside contributors like Fouad Ajami, Mary Gaitskill, etc. Idols. I feel lucky to have it and lucky I am given leeway to basically write what I want.)<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><em>Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/Sheila-OMalley-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my Venmo account<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve launched a Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Variations 2.0<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe.<\/em> <\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Liberties: my top 20 films of 2024. Tis the season for end-of-year lists. I tend to switch them up, depending on the outlet, because I don&#8217;t get attached to my lists. But those are the stand-outs. (Thanks to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=195932\">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":[2208,2738,1255,35,2215,2740,2335,2205,2706,2346,2526,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195932"}],"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=195932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196474,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195932\/revisions\/196474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}