Remember Sammy Jankis

Memento

(2000)

Yes, I'll admit, this was another of my faux-deaccession candidates: I never intended to give away the disc. But the fact that it had gone unwatched for the requisite 5 years+ to make it eligible speaks to the film having lost some of its early glow.

That rest, though (and perhaps the damage wrought upon my own brain, not by a blow to the head but by repeated blows from the calendar), allowed me to forget just enough plot detail to rejuvenate Christopher Nolan's breakthrough. It can never be as much of an insurrection against narrative assumptions as it was when I first saw it on the big screen at BAM, but neither does it seem as cynically gimmicky as it had begun to when I watched it in 2007.

So maybe I should give it 'til 2018 before screening it again?