You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.