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.
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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
I Cannot Tell You How I Feel
There have been scads of documentaries made about the experiences of adult children helping their aging parents make the transition from independent living to accepting various levels of assistance. It’s a universal theme in modern human life. The documentaries range from boring and factual, to intensely and graphically personal. I Cannot Tell You How I Feel takes a different approach—one that is visually engaging and highly entertaining, but skimpy on a coherent storyline.
03Sep
Age of Adaline
Age of Adaline is a well-crafted film that presents viewers with a fantasy that many entertain—living without aging.
03Sep
Alzheimer’s: What You Can Do (Part 1 of 2)
The presentation method and level of depth of Alzheimer’s: What You Can Do seem designed for general audiences seeking an update on recent treatment trends for AD and, perhaps, some encouraging news regarding progress in delaying or curing the disease.
01Sep
Determined: Fighting Alzheimer’s
Determined: Fighting Alzheimer’s introduces us to a remarkable and dynamic longitudinal study begun in 2001 that tracks a community-based sample of adult children with parents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
31Oct
Alzheimer’s: What You Can Do (Part 2 of 2)
Alzheimer’s: What You Can Do presents a lifestyle treatment model designed to reduce multiple personal risk factors correlated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
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.
21Jun
Lousy: Love in the Time of Dementia
This brief, thoughtful, and intriguing video by Frank Silverstein shares 3 years of visits with his parents, Joe and Lynn Silverstein, as they age-in-place in their home.
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.
13May
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved my Life
When this documentary was produced, its main subject, Alice Herz-Sommer, was 109 years old. Alice was born in 1903 in Prague, where her parents were involved in the literary and musical milieu of the early twentieth century. She began playing the piano at an early age and went on to become a well-known concert pianist.
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.