Team Experience members were invited to give thanks this week so you'll be hearing from a few of us. Here's Chris Feil...
Thank you love, thank you life, thank you faithful Film Experience readers!
2018 has been a busy year for yours truly! Between being TFE's resident soundtrack obsessive, starting a podcast, and having another go at TIFF, it's nice to indulge in a little bit of reflection on what this year has meant to me cinematically. As always, I'm grateful to our benevolent host Nathaniel for allowing me to share my voice with you all and my fellow genius cowriters here at TFE. In a terrifying world, our little corner of the internet is a salve. But as for the movies, I am most thankful for...
• "[staccato piano keys] ... I'm alone in my HOUSE!"
• Nicholas Britell's majestic If Beale Street Could Talk score. The rare beast that feels inextricable from its images, forever tied together in my brain.
• Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer in general, but specifically "Pynk" in particular. Listen, if folks are allowed to put Twin Peaks on their best films of the century lists, I can put a music video in mine...
• Diablo Cody for Tully's holistic dialogue between our past and current selves.
• Marielle Heller for understanding the dimensions of queer loneliness in Can You Ever Forgive Me?.
• "Hearts Beat Loud" from Hearts Beat Loud.
• Just about everything to do with Madeline's Madeline - Helena Howard's cascades of fire; Molly Parker's knowing, conflicted exploitave tactics; Josephine Decker's bucking of formula; that seismic finale.
• The perfect final shot in Tamara Jenkins' Private Life. The perfect midpoint shot in Burning.
• Shoplifters and Support the Girls for hugging me, Widows and Wildlife for punching me, Hereditary and Annihilation for staring me down.
• Juliette Binoche on Instagram.
• Markos vs. Blanc jokes.
• Ruth E. Carter's imagination, precision, and expertise - her Costume Design Oscar for Black Panther should be rightfully the safest lock.
Click the photo for a gallery of Ruth Carter exhibit
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Chris Feil lives in Columbus, Ohio. You can easily beetlejuice him into your conversations by talking about soundtracks, RuPaul's Drag Race, and WALL•E. He is remembering to notice the collateral beauty around him. Chris co-hosts the podcast "This Had Oscar Buzz". He has also written for Vice, Paste, and Decider. You can follow him on Twitter and read more from Chris right here.