My favourite titles:

1) Heavyweight Champion of the World
2) Wimbeldon Champion
3) World Cup Winner
4) Oscar Winner
5) Criterion Collection member

Rewatching my Criterion copy of Royal Tenenbaums and it struck me: being part of the Criterion Collection is an honour—I know, I know…no shit Sherlock! But it’s gotten to the stage where something being released on Criterion is a stamp of approval that carries almost as much weight as being an Oscar winner. Although, Oscar winner ain't…

When the only place you’ve ever known is home, you can’t feel its weight. You don’t notice how it holds you down. But when the wanderlust hits—and you finally take that rocky road, whether to Dublin or the Mississippi Delta—you start to feel the chains you’ve been dragging your whole life. The further you go, the lighter they seem… at first.

But after enough miles and enough time, something shifts. The chains aren’t there anymore and somehow, that absence feels…