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#WHERE TO WATCH ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND MOVIE#
Before we could drive, if my friends and I wanted to see a movie with subtitles, we had to literally travel by train, taking the lumbering SEPTA R5 to an arthouse theater a few towns away. (Searchlight was owned by Fox, of course, while Focus Features was part of Universal.) A few got wide releases, but others were just slightly inaccessible, in a way that feels foreign in the streaming era. The early ’00s were a golden age for indie cinema, even if the term “indie” was by then a bit of a misnomer, as most of the genre’s hallmarks were released by wholly owned subsidiaries of major corporations. They could be precious and over-aestheticized, but there was also something shaggy and handmade about them. You heard it from bands like the Postal Service, Bright Eyes, and the Polyphonic Spree, and all over the subgenre Matthew Perpetua dubbed “modular pop.” And you especially saw it at the movies, in a selection of gems that make up a key part of the Millennial Canon - The Royal Tenenbaums, Amélie, Garden State, and more. Amid the trauma and violence of the age, my favorite artists cosseted themselves in fantasy worlds filled with pure, childlike emotion: a heart on the sleeve of a thrift-store sweater.
(Think Paris Hilton, or Girls Gone Wild.) But it was also the time of what was called “the New Sincerity,” a strain of culture that, as one manifesto explained, was a strange amalgam of artifice and innocence. These were the early Bush years, where the dominant aesthetic was shiny, spiky, and a little rank. Why not escape into the past?īecause there’s not much else to do these days besides brood, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the films I loved in high school. Head to Vulture’s Twitter to catch his live commentary, and look ahead at next week’s movie here. This week’s selection comes from senior writer Nate Jones, who will begin his screening of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on August 21 at 7 p.m. Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.Įvery week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club.
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