Sometimes when I travel I seem to only care about eating, about what kind of food I might find to put in my mouth, or what I might drink to vary the boredom of ice water glass after glass. And it's true, that's all I care about. I don't care about landscapes, old buildings, museums, or charming local customs. I only care about the food.

Suddenly, as so often happens on car trips, the mundane becomes terrifying. Crossing the highest parts of I-80 brought us directly into a snow storm. My white-knuckled response was so typical of my experiences driving, an inevitable sequence anywhere in a winter car trip. My first response is always "Get off the road! Get off the road!" I'd gladly stop at any hotel we pass. I am as filled with fear as a soldier in combat. It's not an inappropriate response; the danger is real. Even to the unimaginative death is all around; sometimes we even see cars sliding off the road. I curse myself for getting caught in this again. How could I have agreed to this? If I can just get back to my house I will never, never do it again.

Miffle was a stray who haunted our porch for a while. We began to feed him; our regular cat Philip looked askance. Eventually we enticed the stray inside and being the sadists that we were immediately took him to the vet for a bunch of injections. Vermin-free and home again, he slowly eased himself into our routine, even with Phil who didn't let the new smaller cat bother him that much. They eventually got closer. We were concerned about what might happen; Carolyn once had a cat who was chased to the top of the fridge—by his sister!—and then lived there for months in exile.

Miffle didn't stay as long as we would have liked; he got cancer and died of it less than a year after he came in from the cold. Carolyn said the guy could never catch a break.

1/4 Deep Impact (1998, Mimi Leder)
1/6 The Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur)
1/7 Curse of the Cat People (1944, Robert Wise)
1/11 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie)
1/12 Star Wars: the Force Awakens (2015, J.J. Abrams)
1/16 The Burning Train (1980, Ravi Chopra)
1/17 Things to Come (1936, William Cameron Menzies)
1/17 Mann (1999, Indra Kumar)
1/19 Chimes at Midnight (1966, Orson Welles)
1/19 The Hateful 8 (2015, Quentin Tarantino)
1/22 Wall-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
1/23 Eyes Without a Face (1962, Georges Franju)
1/23 Bombay Velvet (2015, Anurag Kashyap)
1/26 True Romance (2017, Tony Scott)
1/27 Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton)
1/30 Hidden Fortress (1958, Akira Kurosawa)

2/4 Battle Royale (2000, Kinji Fukasaku)
2/5 Ant-Man (2015, Peyton Reed)
2/6 Citizen Kane (1942, Orson Welles; shown to two classes)
2/21 The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay)
2/22 Spotlight (2015, Tom McCarthy)

3/2 Amy (2015, Asif Kapadia)
3/5 On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan; shown to two classes)
3/12 Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock; shown to two classes)
3/19 Straight Outta Compton (2015, F. Gary Gray)
3/19 Sicario (2015, Denis Villeneuve)
3/20 Mad Hot Ballroom (2005, Marilyn Agrelo)
3/22 Attack the Block (2011, Joe Cornish)
3/26 When Marnie Was There (2014, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
3/27 Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
3/29 Tristam Shandy (2005, Michael Winterbottom)

4/1 The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015, Kyle Patrick Alvarez)
4/2 Everest (2015, Baltazar Kormákur)
4/8 Fantastic Four (2015 Josh Trank)
4/9 The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols; shown to two classes)
4/11 Play Misty For Me (1971, Clint Eastwood)
4/13 Anuradah (1960, Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
4/17 The Sixth Sense (1999, M. Night Shyamalan)
4/21 The Killer (1989, John Woo)
4/23 Control (2007, Anton Corbijn)
4/25 Three Days of the Condor (1975, Sydney Pollack)
4/30 Fargo (1996, Joel and Ethan Coen; shown to two classes)

5/7 The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos)
5/8 Sujata (1959, Bimal Roy)
5/11 Law of Desire (1987, Pedro Almadovar)
5/13 Psycho II (1983, Richard Franklin)
5/15 Drag Me to Hell (2009, Sam Raimi)
5/17 Brahman Naman (2016, Qaushiq Mukherjee)
5/20 Whip It (2009, Drew Barrymore)
5/21 Captain America: Civil War (2016, the Russo Brothers
5/22 Shakespeare In Love (1998, John Madden)
5/24 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, Steven Spielberg)
5/25 Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright)
5/26 Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015, Kabir Khan)
5/27 It Follows (2014, David Robert Mitchell)

6/01 Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
6/11 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994, Stephan Elliot)
6/12 Carlos (2010, Olivier Assayas)
6/14 The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014, Han-min Kim)
6/15 Twelve O'clock High (1949, Henry King)
6/16 The Wrecking Crew (2008, Denny Tedesco)
6/17 Valley of Love (2015, Guillaume Nicloux)
6/17 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010, Werner Herzog)
6/18 Thunder Road (1958, Arthur Ripley)
6/18 Talvar (2015, Meghna Gulzar)
6/21 Mulan (1998, Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft)
6/22 Deadpool (2016, Tim Miller)
6/23 Seven Days in May (1964, John Frankenheimer)
6/24 Tarzan and His Mate (1934, Cedric Gibbons and Jack Conway)
6/26 Miss Lovely (2012, Ashim Ahluwalia)
6/28 Michiel de Ruyter (aka Admiral, 2015, Roel Reiné)
6/29 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg)

7/2 American Hustle (2013, David O. Russell)
7/3 Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
7/9 Top Hat (1935, Mark Sandrich)
7/10 Hail, Caesar! (2016, Joel and Ethan Coen)
7/12 The Witch (2015, Robert Eggers)
7/12 Advise and Consent (1962, Otto Preminger)
7/13 Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly)
7/14 Touchez Pas au Grisbe (1954, Jacques Becker)
7/18 The Invisible Man Returns (1940, Joe May)
7/22 Terminator Genisys (2015, Alan Taylor)
7/23 The Sting (1973, George Roy Hill)
7/25 Zootopia (2016, Byron Howard, Richard Moore, Jared Bush)

8/3 Star Trek Beyond (2016, Justin Lin)
8/4 The Clairvoyant (1935, Maurice Elvey)
8/11 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
8/13 Florence Foster Jenkins (2016, Stephen Frears)
8/13 Up (2009, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
8/15 Sympathy for the Devil (1970, Jean-Luc Godard)
8/17 Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015, Matthew Vaughn)
8/18 Jason Bourne (2016, Paul Greengrass)
8/18 A Seperation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
8/19 The Time Travellers (1964, Ib Melchior)
8/20 Victor Frankenstein (2015, Paul McGuigan)
8/21 Dirty Pretty Things (2002, Stephen Frears)
8/25 The Omega Man (1971, Boris Sagal)
8/25 My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, Stephen Frears)
8/26 Everybody Wants Some (2015, Richard Linklater)
8/28 I Saw the Light (2015, Marc Abraham)
8/30 Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962, Sid Pink)
8/31 Keepers of the Game (2016, Judd Ehrlich

9/1 The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)
9/2 Kapoor & Sons (2016, Shakun Batra)
9/4 Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)
9/8 Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov)
9/10 One From the Heart (1982, Francis Ford Coppola)
9/11 The Witness (2015, Peter Weir)
9/14 Pride and Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright)
9/16 Raise the Titanic (1980, Jerry Jameson)
9/17 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, J. J. Abrams)
9/19 Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles; shown to two classes)
9/20 Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016, Anurag Kashyap)
9/22 The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
9/25 Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné)
9/25 London Has Fallen (2016, Babak Najafi)
9/29 Killer Joe (2011, William Friedkin)

10/3 OJ: Made In America (2016, Ezra Edelman)
10/8 Deepwater Horizon (2016, Peter Berg)
10/16 The Wave (2015, Roar Uthaug)
10/19 On the Waterfont (1954, Elia Kazan; shown to two classes)
10/21 Grey Lady Down (1978, David Greene)
10/24 Footlight Parade (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
10/26 Imperium (2016, Daniel Ragussis)
10/27 Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorcese; shown to two classes)

11/6 Dr. Strange (2016, Scott Derrickson)
11/11 Mr. Turner (2014, Mike Leigh)
11/13 Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve)
11/16 Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock; shown to two classes)
11/23 A Place In The Sun (1951, George Stevens)

12/2 Neerja (2016, Ram Madhvani)
12/6 The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols; shown to two classes)
12/9 The Big Heat (1953, Fritz Lang)
12/11 Elf (2003, Jon Favreau)
12/24 It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
12/24 Bad Santa (2003, Terry Zwigoff)
12/26 Strategic Air Command (1955, Anthony Mann)
12/28 Star Wars: Rogue One (2016, Gareth Edwards)
12/28 La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle)
12/29 Party (1984, Govind Nihalani)