Sheila O’Malley

the eyes sliiiightlly open but he is dead to the world. it's so cute!

Blue Jean (2023)

Big City Blues (1932)

91 years apart.

Yes! dates/places TBD

Frankie relaxing in his favorite chair (my dad’s beat-up but beloved by me reading chair)

Oh Frankie.

Mortifying sometimes but they're good reminders too - and they seem to help with memory? I feel like because I wrote things down in such excruciating detail I remember them. which can be good or bad, depending.

If I ever become famous and they get published I'm screwed. I guess it'll be too late to care at that point.

Absolutely. I’ve written probably every day since I was 14. It’s a muscle!

Theatrical dates included.

Frankenstein poster, featuring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein

Frankenstein poster featuring Jacob Elordi as the creature

Frankenstein poster art just released with the perfect tagline Only Monsters Play God! @realgdt.bsky.social 's gorgeous film will open in select theaters on October 17. My book on the film is available for pre-order: Getting close!! www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/9798886...

it really is!

the play is actually based on the playwrights' mother's childhood experiences - which I really respect, the approach to it being both personal but also distant: looking at it from afar and telling her mother's story.

yeah I saw that production too. I actually wasn't crazy about it - thought it was way over-produced. I still remember the guy who played his much younger boss - Chicago actor his name escapes me - but he crushed it.

I remember saying to Jen, "This is Lisa. She is a walking talking IMDB page. Ask her anything."

Memphis, here we come!!

The sisters' dad is an actor on location who keeps putting off coming home to them. Their mother decides to do a "semester at sea", even though dad isn't around, and gives her daughters $400 to last until she returns. The cast of young actors did a great job with very nuanced intricate material.

Program for SEA GLASS, a new play by Olivia Dennehy-Basile, directed by Jennifer McCabe, at the WP Theatre on the UWS

WP Theatre, 2162 Broadway at 76th Street

I went to the preview of a new play called SEA GLASS, by Olivia Dennehy-Basile (Brian Dennehy's granddaughter), directed by Jen McCabe, an old friend of mine. It's about 2 teenage sisters in 1979, raising themselves due to absent selfish parents: Loved it. Run til 8/30: wptheater.org/wp-space-pro...

and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

This fucking sentence

Would absolutely love it Cate. How on earth is it we’ve never met yet??

Went Up the Hill movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert “Went Up the Hill” doesn’t just explore grief, it expresses it.

“WENT UP THE HILL doesn’t just explore grief, it expresses it,” writes @sheilakathleen.bsky.social about Samuel Van Grinsven’s ghost story. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/went...

Wow!!

Great piece Sheila. I spent a few hours with Nic Roeg about ten years ago - I interviewed him on stage before a screening of Don't Look Now that we were putting on in a church. The conversation was a lot like his films - mercurial, jumping around in time and subject & filled with passion for cinema.

and thanks for reading!

wow that sounds amazing!

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social I have such a fond NY memory of that midnight screening of Performance at IFC!

Went Up the Hill movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert “Went Up the Hill” doesn’t just explore grief, it expresses it.

I reviewed WENT UP THE HILL for @ebertvoices.bsky.social - two-hander with Vicky Krieps and Dacre Montgomery: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/went...

In Memoriam: Nicolas Roeg The cinematographer turned director blew our minds to show better what makes us tick

Today is Nicolas Roeg's birthday. When he died, I wrote a tribute for @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy : www.filmcomment.com/article/in-m...

YOU CANNOT SEND THE MILITARY TO A CITY. CRIME RATE IS IRRELEVANT.

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