The films I love within reason...and utterly without reason.

Harrison Ford and Lukas Haas in Witness (1985)

Matthew Broderick and James Earl Jones in The Lion King (1994)

The films I want to see now, for innumerable and often unjustifiable reasons. Now. Before I leave my cave, and I'm always in the light, the harsh stripping light of day and mediocrity and meaningless action. I'm no Little Woman, but sometimes in this solitary paralysis, in the ripe dark, with star or screen light to illuminate my existential frenzies...something like a film can make the whole world a wonder, can change my life. For an hour. A day. How sad is Now.

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

If I could get back some of that glowing, raking hunger for everything out there - that i'm not experiencing - it would make up for the nothingness of the last few years. Just a little bit. I can't shut myself off to life anymore, just to avoid feeling pain. Last night 

Rie Miyazawa and Hiroyuki Sanada in The Twilight Samurai (2002)

Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor in Waterloo Bridge (1940)

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