Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero.”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero.” LAURIE SPARHAM/NETFLIX

Read more of the 196 moments in music, art, books, theater, film, and TV that helped us survive 2016.

• The moment when, in Black Mirror‘s “San Junipero,” “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” plays and Yorkie rounds the bend in her little red convertible and Kelly comes out to greet her and you realize that in this horrible Trumpian universe, good things can happen and love can live. And then you weep tears of relief and joy.

• At Northwest Film Forum, the producer Jennifer Roth explains why she was awarded the prestigious Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and had it pinned on her by the French ambassador to the UAE. We asked, “Do you have it on you?” “No,” Roth said, “I wanted to bring it to the party, but it kind of hurts to wear it.”

• The scene in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story where a dead Star Destroyer is slammed into an active one, and both crash toward a planet’s force field.

• Sidney Lumet describing in the documentary By Sidney Lumet a gang rape he witnessed while on a Calcutta train.

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