That filmmaker certainly merits the benefit of the doubt. I still remember seeing "Cure" in the theater and getting more than I bargained for.

This is actually just how the film seemed to me in a preview I saw. There seemed to be this compelling atmosphere being established...and then the spell seemed to be broken as people were chasing him.

A cringe-inducing point ineloquently made.

This, I believe, is my grandpa's graduation photo from that same year.

Murakami is definitely not for everyone. I have some friends with great taste who are very well read and they don't like him. And Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is actually one of my faves. But you never know!

Showing Up is indeed excellent. For me it resembles The Mastermind in that its impact slowly builds over the course of the film. It was filmed at a beloved but now-closed art school here in Portland, making the location feel bittersweet. I love Michelle Williams, and Andre 3000 is surprisingly good.

I made that trip with @valarie.bsky.social about 15 years ago and we had a great time, be it breakfast at Tweed's cafe or staring at Snoqualmie Falls.

It's actually the waiting for tickets I remember most fondly, particularly a half-hour where people saved our place in line, and we wandered out onto a completely empty Fifth Avenue at 49th Street — one of the densest urban locales in America — and sat down in the middle of the street.

I haven’t seen Certain Women but Valarie and I both really want to. I need to become a completist because Reichardt is actually our neighbor and I’m really hoping to interview her at some point.

I really love it, and was similarly won over across the course of the film. And coincidentally, I just received a book about the production in today’s mail. Are you a fan of any other particular Reichardt films? I especially love First Cow and Old Joy.

Thank you so much! That really means a lot, especially given you myriad talents as poet, professor, quilter and more.

Oh my goodness, I’ve been awake for 35 minutes and my day has already been made. Thank you so much! Yes, the film captured a caustic time but thankfully things feel a lot more hopeful at the moment.

Thanks very much! It’s been a hell of an eight months, and perhaps more drama to come, but I’m actually grateful.

Oh wow! I can see how she'd be great doing voice-overs. I really should delve into my box of cassette tapes to try and find the recording of my interview with her.

Back in 2002 I got to interview Charlotte Rampling. It was over the phone, but still a highlight of my career. I remember her pausing to receive a Fedex package at her door, and I could hear her talking in French to the delivery guy. www.salon.com/2002/01/24/r...

Eva also has a new show opening this month at Modernism West in San Francisco, called Relics of Beauty. modernisminc.com/exhibitions/...