I wrote an article for Eyes Wide Open about a very specific film festival I worked on in Chicago in the summer of 2001:

As movies editor for citysearch.com’s Chicago node, I should have been covering that thundering shift in the moviemaking landscape. But I did not truly see what was happening. I could tell 2000’s Gladiator and X-Men foretold a new kind of spectacle filmmaking: grimmer, faster, and unromantic. I could see that 1990s’ auteurism was coming to an end. I was thrilled by Memento, weirdly defensive about criticism of A.I., and nonplussed by Mulholland Drive. But that spring and summer I was also looking more to the past than the present…