Los Angeles Times: Mike Mills "It's still really alive in me"

In The Los Angeles Times, Steve Appleford's profile "Mike Mills gets extremely personal with Beginners" looks the life, art and memory of the writer and filmmaker of Beginners. The article covers Mills' life from son to graphic designer to filmmaker, with a fascinating section on how all those aspects of his life have come to influence his memories of his dad:

Memories are so broken apart...I can remember my dad saying the same things in a sweet tone and in an angry tone. In some of my memories, I'm looking at myself in a shot-reverse-shot structure," he says of the technique of showing movie characters in conversation from opposite camera angles, "which is impossible, right? The language of filmmaking has infiltrated into my dear precious memory of my father. How unstable and unreliable is all this stuff?