The future is a scary place, and most directors would rather runinate amongst the years gone by, an age that never was.

Ruda eschews this escapism from reality, from the present. Rather, Ruda embraces the present for all its magnificent glory and chaos that it is, can be, and will always he

In one of the greatest casting choices of the 20th century, here is a film of art imitating life imitating art, capturing the cruelty, abuse, and terror that is this thing known as love

Why do we do what we do? Why do we make the art we make? What's the point to this frivolous thing called life?

When we make art for others, for the so-called people, we do not appease, but rather bore, as our titular protagonist begins here.

It is only when we create for the self, when we can, ironically enough, let go of the ego, perhaps in the face of death as she does here, can we truly transcend our troubles and make something of this affair known as life.

"When legend becomes the fact, print the legend"

Here is the story of the hero turned villain not merely by his own doing, but by the death of the western and the destruction of our own democracy through indoctrination and blind faith in the powers that be.

Simultaneously hilarious and humiliating, Ford points a prying eye at what America has made of itself and the part he himself played in the destruction of the "wild west"

How do you capture the life of a man who is more fiction than fact? A mythological figure which has no place in reality?

You don't. You can't. You get this instead.

When fire fights fire, all that's left is a world burned to smithereens

We often think of art as this beautiful, magical thing made by beautiful, magical people. But more often than not, art is a disease that consumes us, ruins us, and eventually, destroys us.

Masters of anxiety and all things neurotic, the Safdie brothers give a compelling and repitious cycle of abuse and addiction. A film which explores not only our love for drugs, but people and ideas too, and the things, maybe even everything, we're willing to give up for it.

Even if, in the end, it isn't worth much of anything at all