exercise: each movie, each year of your life

Each year we see so many films. Some we hate, some we love at the time and then forget after a couple of months, and some (we’re convinced) are brilliant films that will stay with us forever. There are a lot of reasons that some films stick with us and some don’t, but of course a lot of it has to do with where you are in your life. Everyone has a couple of films in their viewing history that they’re pretty embarrassed to have once loved — it’s embarrassing to realize that something can be profoundly significant to us one year and foolish the next. Maybe because we like to think of our taste as more stable...