Our Secret Life In The Movies

"While teaching in Stanford’s writing program and rooming together, Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree cooked up the idea of binge-watching the entire Criterion collection of classic movies and writing stories inspired by them. Their nonlinear flash collaboration bounces between points of view, offering two stories per film. Our Secret Life in the Movies is made up of 30 of these “double takes” about growing up in the late 1980s, a time of Space Age toasters, doomed astronauts and the specter of nuclear annihilation. From its start in the early 1970s, riffing off Carlos Saura’s Cria Cuervos to its final homage to Andrei Tarkovsky, this collection is genius."