Get to Know Lisa Rosman Through Her Various Works

Festivals of Light

This time of year there is so little natural light that many wake hours before the sun and work hours after it descends. But we living creatures can adjust to anything, even find solace in it. The intimacy, the privacy granted by these dark hours in early morning: it’s time for settling back into pillows with quieter projects, hot drinks steaming cold rooms, small lights casting out still-prevailing nights. Well. Such time is to be cherished once we adjust to its protocol. We grasp why this is the holiest time of year, why we make festivals for these lights. With their help, into the mystic we sail–for a few hours at a time, at least.

Missive 354,003 from the Cat Lady Annals

With the holidays around the corner, the air conditioners have finally been taken down in my apartment. (Physically arduous tasks tend to get postponed until the last minute in La Casa Rosmanica.) Suffice it to say Permakitten Gracie is officially bereft that the evil, evil pigeon who perches on the bedroom window AC–you know, her arch frenemy—won’t return again until summer. Not even a bird-festooned Christmas tree can lift my little friend’s gloom. And, no: I’m not projecting. (Mostly.)

Top 10 Films of 2014

I’ll write more on the topic once the holidaze clears but for now here’s my ballot for Indiewire’s year-end poll. Boyhood really was the best film of 2014–a stunning achievement–though I felt a greater resonance with Tracks; the timeless and timely Selma; and that bastion of second-wave feminism, The Babadook. Who knew I could fall in love with an Aussie horror film? Also on the list: Ida, Love Is Strange, Interstellar, Inherent Vice, Force Majeure, and Snowpiercer.

"All, everything I understand, I understand only because I love."
― Leo Tolstoy