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.
As usual, she joined me for many of my favorite cinema experiences, including driving to Marin and the Mill Valley Film Festival to a screening of 63 Up with Michael Apted in person. We relished seeing Green Book, Her Smell, Booksmart, Knives Out and Silicon Valley’s first screening of The Irishman. And we finished the year with the Christmas Eve screening of It’s a Wonderful Life at the Stanford Theatre.
But most impressively, battling back pain, she got off a hellish transcontinental airline flight to join me for a weekend of Noir City. That’s taking one for Team Movie Gourmet.
I got to introduce her to All That Jazz, Double Indemnity and 99 River Street. (We have the steamy 99 River Street poster in our living room, complete with Evelyn Keyes’ fingernails scratching tracks across John Payne’s beefy back.)
This year we binged more episodic television together than ever: True Detective, Victoria, Tales of the City, Fosse/Verdon, One Mississippi, Modern Love, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and The Crown.
She’s the biggest fan and supporter of this blog, and I appreciate her and love her. Happy Anniversary, Honey!