Family shows up in writing whether you invite it or not: in memoirs, in the stories we tell at dinner, and in the reasons people finally sit down to write a book at all. These articles cover writing about family, preserving family stories, and the complicated business of putting relatives on the page.
1970sSeptember 11, 2026
Street Girls (1975) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A father searches Eugene, Oregon for a daughter who has disappeared into the local trade, in a film co-written by Barry Levinson a decade before he directed anything,…
1970sSeptember 11, 2026
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Diane Keaton plays a teacher of deaf children who spends her nights in bars, in a film that is genuinely good for ninety minutes and then…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
Brokeback Mountain (2005) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two men herd sheep on a Wyoming mountain in 1963 and spend the next twenty years failing to have a life. Ang Lee won Best Director and the…
1950sSeptember 11, 2026
Giant (1956) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Three hours and twenty-one minutes of Texas across roughly twenty-five years, James Dean's last completed performance, and a film that starts as a marriage drama and ends as an…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
Precious (2009) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A sixteen-year-old in Harlem in 1987 is transferred to an alternative school and learns to read. Gabourey Sidibe had never acted and Mo'Nique won Supporting Actress for a performance…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
The Blind Side (2009) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A competently made film in which a wealthy white family takes in a homeless Black teenager, told almost entirely from the family's position, and Sandra Bullock won…
1990sSeptember 11, 2026
Life is Beautiful (1998) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roberto Benigni made a comedy about a father convincing his son that a concentration camp is a game, won Best Actor, and produced the most divisive film…
1980sSeptember 11, 2026
Ordinary People (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Robert Redford's first film as director is a carefully observed drama about a family that cannot discuss a death, and it won Best Picture and Director over Raging…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Roma (2018) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron wrote, directed, shot and co-edited a black and white film about the domestic worker who raised him, in Spanish and Mixtec, with a non-professional lead. It won Director,…
1940sSeptember 11, 2026
How Green Was My Valley (1941) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. John Ford's film about a Welsh mining family across roughly twenty years is a good film that has spent eighty-four years being the answer to…
1990sSeptember 11, 2026
Forrest Gump (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A technically remarkable film with a genuinely great performance at its center and a politics it has spent thirty years being argued about, which beat Pulp Fiction and…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Marriage Story (2019) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two people who like each other are put through a divorce by a legal process neither of them wanted to use, in a film that opens with both…
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