18Sep
Advanced Style
Advanced Style is a documentary, released 6 years after Ari Seth Cohen, an urban photographer, started a blog by the same name at just 26 years old.
Attitudes about Aging
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03Sep
The Prospector
The Prospector is a beautifully photographed, novel, and instructive visit with Ernie Laszlo, an older resident of the historic California gold country in Mariposa, California.
03Sep
Fast Forward
Preparing for the physical changes that aging will bring is not something most of us think about. Accepting the physical changes that aging will bring is not something most of us want to think about either.
03Sep
Age of Adaline
Age of Adaline is a well-crafted film that presents viewers with a fantasy that many entertain—living without aging.
19Oct
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
With an acerbic script by British writer Katy Brand and Australian director Sophie Hyde at the helm, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande has a modest premise.
19Sep
Juniper
New Zealand feature film Juniper (Saville, 2021) represents an intriguing variation on the form.
13Jul
Old
Old can be interpreted as a parable of the inevitable trajectory of human life on this earth. The film obviously plays on humanity’s nearly universal fear of aging and dying.
15Jun
Being 97
This thought-filled, evocative video focuses on Herbert Fingarette, 97-year-old grandfather of videographer Andrew Hasse.
15Jun
Inga
Inga opens and ends with two major entries (Kapitels or “chapters”) she writes in her journal. The first and briefer is “Love.” In her poetic vocal narrative, she offers her views of love’s evolving meanings and changing phases across the life span.
18Apr
306 Hollywood
I am in awe of this film.
Every so often a film comes along that is highly entertaining to watch and is also a wonderful vehicle for exploring and presenting several elderhood and aging-related issues.
30Sep
Ask Dr. Ruth
By speaking publicly and frankly about sexuality, Dr. Ruth Westheimer helped untold numbers of individuals overcome impediments to healthy sexual pleasure. The new film, Ask Dr Ruth, chronicles her long life, from her early childhood in Germany, to her current very active professional life.
20Sep
Go Gentle
In Go Gentle, the scope through which we view time is entirely different from that presented in Recorder. Ninety-year-old Shirley Rosenthal talks openly and calmly about accepting the end of her life.
17Sep
Something’s Gotta Give
An older wealthy tycoon (played by Jack Nicholson) dates only younger women until he meets the mother of one of them (yes, played by Diane Keaton) and eventually realizes what he’s been missing in a relationship.
16Sep
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Saving the worst for last, the sequel film, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel should only be seen if you have exhausted every other diversion available to you.
16Sep
Friend Request Pending
Friend Request Pending is a refreshingly unique short-sketch film that features a few hours in the life of an older woman making an online connection with a desirable man.
16Sep
Five Flights Up
In Five Flights Up, a long-married couple faces the decision to sell their five-story walkup in New York City. Alex (Morgan Freeman) and Ruth (Diane Keaton) have lived their entire married life together in this apartment walkup and are now finding it more difficult to deal with the stairs.