The conceit of Everything Everywhere All At Once is not overly complex. Boiled down, it’s probably little more than an ode to everyday life, or more accurately, contemporary everyday life. Following the life of Evelyn Wang, our protagonist, it begins with the stressful, if cinematically innocuous task of filing her taxes with the IRS. Before…

Recently I watched the 1979 film Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky. The best place to start with this movie is probably the story of how it was made. After shooting the entire movie once, Tarkovsky found that the film had been developed incorrectly, and was unusable. In response, he fired his cinematographer, and re-shot the entire…