How do two people recognize that at some future point, imperceptible to their current selves, they might break up—and still choose to love each other without boundary or trepidation? Read More
Springsteen on Broadway restores and replenishes, briefly buoying our battered hearts and reminding us that we are capable of so much more. Read More
In First Avenger, all Captain America had for a compass was the dream. In Winter Soldier, he had the past. By Civil War, he’d seen both of these totems fall apart in the face of an America certain that it knew better than he did. Read More
Dr. Zhivago makes me think of how my own parents measure time: before the revolution, and after it. Read More
If The Last Picture Show is a movie about savoring your precious misery, Texasville is a movie about having a bad case of the blues. Read More
For all his admissions that memory is spurious and structured by lack, filmmaker Chris Marker (La Jetée, Sans Soleil) still found something beautiful in “the moss of time.” Read More