Sheila O'Malley

You, the Jury: Joan Crawford, Otto Preminger, & Daisy Kenyon

5 for the Day: Dean Stockwell

Long Day’s Journey Into Night began my own long journey into Stockwell’s entire career.

5 for the Day: Katharine Hepburn

Circus Politics: Frank van den Engel & Masja Novikova’s Between Heaven and Earth

Unmoved: Salvatore Stabile’s Where God Left His Shoes

…and Wednesday too: Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday

The plot of this lovely movie, my favorite I have seen so far in the Tribeca Film Festival, is basically a soap opera, a Tehran-set version of Desperate Housewives.

5 for the Day: Life-Changing Criticism