Movie Recommendations, Vol. 7

Here are some films and PBS programs, we have enjoyed over the last several months:

• Artic Son: A beautiful documentary from the PBS series POV.
  
• After the Wedding: A classic from Denmark
• Avenue Montaigne
  
• Devil's Playground: When Amish kids turn 16, they are allowed to experience the "English" world. Nevertheless, an astounding 90% decide to join the church and adopt the Amish lifestyle.
  
• The Pursuit of Happyness
  
• Family Law (from Argentina)
  
• Following Sean
• The Squid and the Whale
  
• The Bridge: Suicides and the Golden Gate Bridge
  
• Once: A gem from Dublin, Ireland!
  
• 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
• Waitress (a classic film written & directed by the late Adrienne Shelly)
  
• Sex Slaves (an online chat with the filmmakers)
  
• Notes on a Scandal (Judi Dench + Cate Blanchett)
  
• Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?
  
• A Good Year (Ridley Scott directs a romance set in Provence)
• The Girl From Paris
  
• Black Gold (from Independent Lens, a documentary on Fair Trade and Coffee in Ethiopia)
  
• The Power of Community: Cuba and Peak Oil
  
• A Zen Life (a documentary on the life of D.T. Suzuki)
  
• Quinceanera (Indie film set in Echo Park; 2006 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner)
• Winter Passing (Ed Harris and Will Ferrell in a moving indie drama)
  
• So Much, So Fast (Frontline documentary chronicling the journey of a family's fight against ALS)
  

Previous Movie Recommendations can be found here.

Movie Recommendations, Vol. 6

Here are some films and PBS programs, we have enjoyed over the last several months:

• Gypo
  
• Volver
• Little Children
• Babel
• Time to Leave (another classic from Francois Ozon)
  
• The Impressionists (Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, ....)
• The Motel
• The Lives of Others (a beautiful film set in East Germany in the mid 1980s)
  
• After Innocence (documentary on men freed through The Innocence Project)
  
• The U.S. vs. John Lennon
  
• Who Killed The Electric Car
• Hand of God (from the PBS series Frontline)
  
• Horatio's Drive (a Ken Burns documentary)
  
• Peace One Day (documentary on the U.N. Global Day of Peace)
• Here to Stay (documentary on Filipino & other immigrant nurses in Ireland)
  
• One Bright Shining Moment (documentary on the '72 McGovern campaign)
• Look Both Ways (another gem from down under)
  
• Sherry Baby
• Bulworth (1998 classic from Warren Beatty)
  
• In the Shadow of the Stars (released in 1991; Oscar-winning documentary about the SF Opera)
  
• The Yes Men (we saw this a while back: funny documentary about a group of anti-WTO activists)
  

Previous Movie Recommendations can be found here:

• Vol. 5
  
• Vol. 4
  
• Vol. 3
  
• Vol. 2
• Vol. 1

Movie Recommendations, Vol. 5

Here are some films and PBS programs, we have enjoyed over the last six months:

• Forty Shades of Blue
• Thank You For Smoking (Brilliant Comedy!)
• Solo Con Tu Pareja (a classic from the makers of Y Tu Mama Tambien)
• Michael Palin: Sahara (what a great travel documentary)
  
• Status Anxiety
  
• Death in Gaza
  
• Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 5
  
• The Talent Given Us
  
• Legacy
  
• Waging A Living
  
• Don't Move (I love Sergio Castellitto!)
• The Last Kiss (Italian gem)
  
• Lonesome Jim
  
• Sexo Com Amor (awesome comedy from Chile)
  
• Russian Dolls (the much awaited sequel to L'Auberge Espagnole)
  
• Paper Dolls (Filipino drag queens in Israel, some with day jobs caring for elderly Orthodox Jews, in a conservative suburb of Tel Aviv!)
• Omar and Pete
  
• American Gun
  
• Capitol Crimes (Bill Moyers' documentary on the Abramoff affair)
  
• Film Geek
  
• Iraq for Sale
  
• The King (starring Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt)
  
• The Fire Next Time
  
• Changing Times (starring Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve)
  
• Take My Eyes (A beautiful Spanish drama)
  
• Con Man
  
• Blue Vinyl (a cult hit in the Green Building industry)
  
• A Tout De Suite
  

Previous Movie Recommendations can be found here:

• Vol. 4
  
• Vol. 3
  
• Vol. 2
• Vol. 1

Movie Recommendations, Vol. 4

Here are some films we have enjoyed recently:

• Incantato
• Nobody's Life
• My Mother's Smile
• Little Fish: Cate Blanchett in a great Aussie flick.
  
• Piece by Piece
  
• Cracker (Award winning British series): Series 1, Series 2, Series 3
  
• Alibi
• The Future of Food
  
• Paradise Now
  

Previous Movie Recommendations can be found here:

• Vol. 3
  
• Vol. 2
• Vol. 1

Movie Recommendations, Vol. 3

Here are some films we have enjoyed recently:

• Emmanuel's Gift
• The Weather Man
  
• Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus
  
• Rumi: Poet of the Heart
  
• The Best of Youth => A Six-hour Italian Epic!
  
• Good Morning, Night
  
• Happily Ever After
  
• Six Feet Under: The Fifth and Final Season
  
• Match Point
  

Previous Movie Recommendations can be found here:

• Vol. 2
• Vol. 1
  

Movie Recommendations, Vol. 2

Here are some films we have seen and loved, over the last few months:

• Country Boys
  
• Grizzly Man
  
• Or (My Treasure)
  
• Apres Vous
  
• Thumbsucker
  
• Junebug
• The War Within
  
• Proof
• Reel Paradise
  

Movie Recommendations, Vol. 1, can be found here. Happy Viewing.

Recent Movie Recommendations

Here are the movies recommended in my recent (Nov/Dec 2005) postings:

• Caterina in the Big City
• McLibel
• Wine for the Confused
• Mondovino
• The Edukators
• The Wheel of Time
• The Girl in the Cafe
• WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price

Here are some 2005 films we've enjoyed on DVD:

• Cronicas
• Happy Endings
• Me and You and Everyone We Know
• Fear and Trembling
  

As usual, go with your locally-owned video rental store or public library, when you can! If not, Netflix works.

Happy Viewing.