Happy Anniversary to The Wife, also known as Lisa The Love of My Life!
Once again, she tolerated my spending huge chunks of time at Cinequest, the San Francisco International Film Festival, Noir City, the SF Jewish Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival.
We shared some of my favorite movie experiences this year.
- We discovered the obscure Norwegian gem All the Beauty at Cinequest, which was one of EIGHT Cinequest screenings that she made it to.
- She accompanied me to see the premiere of my favorite Cinequest film, Quality Problems, and go out for drinks with the filmmakers afterward.
- Together, we power-binged through seasons of Happy Valley, Broadchurch, Transparent, Victoria and The Crown.
- She overcame decades of resistance to watching The Deer Hunter, and we revisited Lantana, a movie that we enjoyed for the first time early in our marriage.
- She didn’t like (or finish) Toni Erdmann, which I loved, and she argued that I was selling Fences way short. She sure liked Elle, though!
- I’m always hoping, hoping, hoping that she’ll enjoy MY choice for us to watch, so I was completely gratified by her LOLs during The Disaster Artist – and now I get to bellow, “You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!“.
And, as always, she still teases me for “the Romanian abortion movie”, “the Icelandic penis movie” and “the Ukrainian deaf movie”.
She’s the biggest fan and supporter of this blog, and I appreciate her and love her. Happy Anniversary, Honey!