Photo caption: The Wife and the Movie Gourmet still enjoying wedded bliss
Happy 22nd Anniversary to The Wife, also known as Lisa, The Love of My Life!
We started out the year by admiring Power of the Dog together and just last week saw Babylon (she was a good sport).
This year, like the previous two, we binged EVEN MORE more episodic television together. Her dad is living with us, and he has an insatiable appetite for crime dramas, so we’ve watched many more seasons of them, especially on Acorn and BritBox, including Blood, Jagged, Rebeckah Martinsson, Bordertown, Secret City, The Chestnut Man, Inventing Anna, The Sounds, Under the Banner of Heaven, Deadpool, Guernsey and Van der Valk. As far as we can tell from TV, the murder epidemic in England, Scotland and Wales having spread to Ireland, France, Iceland and Australia, has now pierced Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Utah. Our favorite has been Shetland, but we mourn the report that Douglas Henshall will not be returning for next year’s season. Not all our TV fare was murderous – we also enjoyed the latest episodes of Derry Girls, The Crown and Somebody Feed Phil.
She even got me to watch Encanto and Spirited. She enjoyed my non-mainstream film choices of Hit the Road, A Love Song and Bitterbrush, and she liked The Return of Tanya Tucker even more than I did.
Once again, she tolerated my spending huge chunks of time covering Cinequest in person and Frameline, San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) Nashville Film Festival and San Francisco Jewish Film Festival virtually. She was also OK with my helping out Cinequest by screening 86 Cinequest submissions. I’m getting ready now for to cover Noir City in person and Slamdance virtually (for the first time) in January.
We were in LA twice this year, and we visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Bunker Hill’s Angel Flight and Bradbury Building, locations for dozens of films.
She’s the biggest fan and supporter of this blog DURING ALL OF ITS TWELVE YEARS, and I appreciate her and love her. Happy Anniversary, Honey!
