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.
Intergenerational
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18Apr
Love Limits
Love Limits is a transcendent film about the unique loving relationship shared by Cory Ann Rudy, age 36, and Warren Barrow, age 83. In addition to the difference in their ages, they differ in other significant ways. Cory is a White woman from a farm in upstate New York; Warren is an African-American man from Brooklyn.
17Sep
And So It Goes
This film spins a story of later-life romance using hand-me-down dialogue, story line, and characters. (Even the title lacks imagination.) In this woeful film, Michael Douglas plays the typical angry older (but youngish looking) adult whose wife has died.
16Sep
Life in Stills
The themes of memory, love, and loss that are central to Angel’s Perch are also found in the documentary film, Life in Stills , but with a different mixture. The grandmother–grandson relationship in this film is of an entirely different character than that presented in Angel’s Perch .
10Sep
Nebraska
In contrast, Nebraska, Alexander Payne’s new movie about a son accompanying his addled and self-absorbed father’s unlikely quest for the million dollars he thinks he has won in a sweepstakes, does not give viewers much to smile at.
11Jan
The Disappearance of My Mother
Some of the best films are created when an adult child attempts to understand the life of a parent by interacting with them from behind the camera. In The Disappearance of My Mother, the parent is not happy with being filmed.
29Mar
Head Full of Honey
Many contemporary films that deal with dementia focus on the role of the caregiver and the complex issues involved in supporting a family member living with dementia. Head Full of Honey falls into this category, but is unusual in having a youthful protagonist in the central caring role.
11Feb
From Nine to Ninety
From Nine to Ninety deals with a common family situation in the United States—providing care for older adults within a multigenerational household setting. It focuses on a single family that shares the common challenges faced by many other families that currently struggle with adult caregiving.
31Jan
You See Me
The premise of this interesting and multilayered film is revealed at the outset: Videographer Linda Brown created You See Me (http://youseememovie.com/) in hopes of achieving a better understanding of her father, Stanley Brown, a man she loved but “wonder if I ever really knew.”
31Jan
Finding Tatanka
Videographer Jacob Bricca created Finding Tatanka to gain greater understanding of his father, Kit Bricca. He hoped to fill in blank spots that have remained in their relationship across the years and, hopefully, to reach a resolution that might enrich it. The result is a video case study of this father–son relationship and more largely, of a visionary known over the years as Kit, Chris Cougar, Buffalo, Buffalo Waves in the Breeze, and Tatanka .
31Jan
Cyber-Seniors
Cyber Seniors documents an important program that illustrates the combined efforts of younger and older adults to bridge the “digital divide.” In a light-hearted and humorous fashion, the film introduces us to an intergenerational program designed to increase internet and social media use among elders who continue to observe computer technology from afar.
11Dec
Bubbeh Lee and Me
This ingenuous film documents a visit that videographer Andy Abrahams Wilson made over two decades ago to see his widowed grandmother, Bubbeh Lee, over the Jewish Holidays in Florida. At the outset, Wilson explains that at the time of the filming, he had been making this trip for several years, wondering if each visit might be the last.
11Oct
The Farewell
When a lie becomes part of carefully orchestrated communication in the service of the perceived good of the lie's recipient, is it justified? The Farewell presents this question within a scenario that is also complicated by the differing societal assumptions expressed in Eastern and Western cultures.
11Jun
95 And 6 To Go
In 95 And 6 To Go, videographer Kimi Takesue introduces us to her grandfather, Mr. Tom Takesue, a 95-year-old Japanese American and resident of Hawaii. Videographer Kimi has returned to Hawaii to provide him with “support and assistance” due to the recent death of his wife, Ethel.
11May
Tell Them Who You Are
Tell Them Who You Are is an entertaining and richly integrated film about the search for disclosure between an adult son and his iconic father, now in his 80s. The father, Haskell Wexler, is a preeminent and prolific cinematographer who worked on many critically acclaimed films throughout his long career, including American Graffiti and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
10Oct
I, Daniel Blake
Shot and directed in such a way as to feel very much like an unscripted documentary, I, Daniel Blake has a feel of immediacy that places the viewer right alongside the characters in the film, experiencing and feeling what they are living.