12 REASONS WHY I LOVE HER FILM FESTIVAL

When I started to hatch a plan to relaunch 12 Reasons Why I Love Her for its tenth anniversary--in stores now!--I had some weird notion that we might one day do a film festival with movies that inspired the book or otherwise have something in common with it. Namely, films with fractured timelines, or multiple storylines that overlap and backtrack and alter how you view what came before, or that otherwise take a unique approach to showing a relationship. I made a list on my phone and I've been carrying it around for god knows how long. Here is what I had settled on, were you inclined to undertake this festival on your own:

Two for the Road (1967), dir. Stanley Donen

Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight (1995/2004/2013), dir. Richard Linklater

Scenes from a Marriage (1973); dir. Ingmar Bergman

5X2 (2004), dir. Francois Ozon

Three Times (2005), dir. Hou Hsiao Hsien

In the Mood For Love (2000)/2046 (2004), dir. Wong Kar-Wai

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), dir. Alain Resnais

The Day He Arrives (2011)/In Another Country (2012), dir. Hong San-soo

Reconstruction (2003), dir. Christoffer Boe

Lucas Belvaux's Trilogy (2002)

13 Conversations About One Thing (2001), dir. Jill Sprecher

Sliding Doors (1998), dir. Peter Howitt

WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Comic Book Resources and Comics Should Be Good have put together a four-part series on Joëlle Jones and the evolution of her work as part of their Year of the Artist. It's rather impressive to see.

Part 1: 12 Reasons Why I Love Her

Part 2: You Have Killed Me

Part 3: Helheim

Part 4: Batman '66

Current Soundtrack: Depeche Mode, Live in Berlin

WORDS I DON'T REMEMBER

I forgot to post this here since I was traveling when it went up, but you can hear a nice long talk with me, covering the gamut of my projects old and new, over at Pat Loika's Loikamania podcast.

Hopefully it will get everyone pumped for next week's dual release of Archer Coe and the Thousand Natural Shocks and Madame Frankenstein #3!

Current Soundtrack: How to Dress Well, "What is This Heart?"