Words&Dirt

If someone pressed me to name just one film as my all-time favorite, I would probably choose The Princess Bride. Some of my most treasured childhood memories include watching the movie over and over and quoting it with family and friends. To this day, lines from the film or echoes of Mark Knopfler’s gorgeous soundtrack […]

The night I learnedthat the cinema in our townwas closing,I wept. I sifted memories, turned back timetrying to reclaim all those momentsof awesadnessexhilarationjoysitting in shadow with folksjust plain Americansin our nothing special, sometimes faulty cinemait’s janky but it’s ours. We lost ourselves in that third spacehappily together but each in our separate worldsthe dark, the […]