Happy 23rd Anniversary to The Wife, also known as Lisa, The Love of My Life!
We started out the year by catching up with Empire of Light and Living, and ended, as is our beloved Holiday tradition, watching It’s a Wonderful Life on the big screen. Along the way, we watched together almost 70 movies and seasons of episodic television. Barbie may have been the most fun. We were the only patrons at The Holdovers, which made it a private screening, just for us.
We had a great year with the classics, too, watching The Godfather and Godfather, Part II back-to-back and introducing our adult niece and nephew to our favorite film, Casablanca.
We attended a 100th anniversary event for Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 The Ten Commandments, co-sponsored by the DeMille family, the Central Coast Film Society, the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival and the (Guadalupe) Dune Center (which houses remnants of the DeMille’s monumental set). (Impressive event, but we both contracted COVID.)
This year, like the previous three, we binged hundreds of hours of episodic television together; the highlights were the original Scandinavian version of The Bridge and rewatching Happy Valley.
Once again, she tolerated my spending huge chunks of time covering Noir City and the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival in person and Cinequest, Slamdance, 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 89 film submissions. I’m getting ready now to cover Noir City in person and Slamdance virtually again in January.
She’s the biggest fan and supporter of this blog DURING ALL OF ITS THIRTEEN YEARS, and I appreciate her and love her. Happy Anniversary, Honey!