20 things Priya Chandrasekaran from Los Angeles, CA actually loves
- The final cut of In the Mood for Love, every single frame
- Golden hour on Mulholland Drive, the real one, not the movie
- Thelma Schoonmaker's editing on Raging Bull
- The New Beverly Cinema
- My AVID rig at 2am, just me and the timeline
- Dosas from Saravana Bhavan on a Sunday
- Agnes Varda
- The Criterion Collection, the physical discs, with the essays
- That cut in Lawrence of Arabia where he blows out the match
- Griffith Observatory at night
- A. R. Rahman's score for Bombay
- My amma's sambar, which I've never been able to replicate
- The moment a rough cut starts to breathe
- The patience required to find the right frame to cut on
- Barry Jenkins, everything, but especially the dinner scene in Moonlight
- Driving PCH with no destination
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- The idea that editing is writing with images
- My father, a projectionist in Chennai for thirty years
- The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, the late shows