• Cinephilia

    Watch This: Amy

    She had an intimate relationship with music, like it was a person…she would die for it. In ten or twenty years, my kid siblings may come across Amy, the new documentary that chronicles Amy Winehouse’s meteoric rise to fame in the first years of the millennium, and watch it much the way I recently watched What Happened, Miss Simone? That is, with a certain familiarity with the subject, but enough remove that the film’s revelations are brand new information to the uninitiated. Watching Amy myself, though, felt like a brutal rehashing of a life I remember quite clearly watching play out as an addiction-fueled roller coaster to its sad, premature end. The…