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# Movies About Aging and Elderhood

Reviews of Movies About Aging and Elderhood

## Posts

- [Breaking the Silence: The Fear of Retaliation](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/breaking-the-silence-fear-of-retaliation/) - Much of life in long-term care homes unfolds through ordinary moments. A resident presses a call light and waits. Someone requests assistance getting dressed. A concern is raised about a medication, a meal, or a preference that has gone unnoticed...
- [Stolen Time](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/stolen-time/) - Stolen Time successfully portrays the depth and scope of the human pain and suffering caused by the systemic failure of corporations to provide adequate care in nursing homes.
- [What We Leave Behind](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/what-we-leave-behind/) - “Grandpa was a mystery to me as a kid. I didn’t know how to talk to him. He’d smoke a lot and bring me milk fudge and tamarind candy.”
- [When Fall is Coming](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/when-fall-is-coming/) - In a scene towards the end of When Fall Is Coming, one character observes wearily of her son, “he wants to do right, but always does wrong.” It is the perfect summation of the motivations and actions of virtually every character in Francois Ozon’s film.
- [Familiar Touch](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/familiar-touch/) - When Canadian actor/director Sarah Polley chose an Alice Munro short story about a woman with dementia entering an aged care home as the focus for her first feature film (Far From Her, Polley, 2006), critics remarked that it was unusual—and courageous—subject matter for a young woman making her directorial debut.
- [The Substance](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/65/3/gnaf005/7991340?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The Substance joins a provocative history of films that have tackled the fate of women as they age in (and out of) the entertainment industry.
- [Thelma](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/65/2/gnae148/7830609?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The “elder odyssey” has been described as a long-standing tradition that can be traced throughout cinema history (Shary & McVittie, 2016). This narrative form often combines the “road movie” or journey film with a quest for some kind of resolution or redemption for the aging central protagonist. I
- [Perfect Days](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/64/10/gnae098/7728840?searchresult=1#new_tab) - If you have ever wondered if it is possible to make an absorbing 2-hr film where the central protagonist cleans toilets for a living, doesn’t speak for an hour, and not much happens, Perfect Days (Wenders, 2023) answers that question.
- [WATCH FREE! Fighting for Dignity: A Film on Injurious and Fatal Resident-to-Resident Incidents in Long-Term Care Homes](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/terra_nova_films/FFD.mp4#new_tab) - “The phenomenon of resident-to-resident incidents is now recognized as an international public health problem.” – From the film A large number of injurious resident-to-resident incidents in long-term care settings are not recognized, reported, nor prevented. Through the graphic and deeply painful experiences of three families whose vulnerable loved ones were either physically or sexually harmed, this
- [Jules](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/64/7/gnae053/7676821?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Jules is an entertaining and engaging film. It also has, embedded within it, a refreshing regard for human oldness. On the face of it, the film shows the typical societal attitude toward older individuals. Milton and his acquaintances are often ignored or mildly tolerated. However, scattered here and there within the film are little gems of age acceptance.
- [80 for Brady](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/80-for-brady/) - “It’s better than I expected it to be.” That’s what I said to my wife after we finished watching 80 for Brady. From the preview clips (which one should never trust), I expected some ditzy rendition of four older women friends taking a trip to see their hero, Tom Brady, play in the Super Bowl.
- [A Man on the Inside](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/a-man-on-the-inside/) - Creating a documentary that accurately reflects day-to-day life in a residential care facility is nearly impossible. Most eldercare residences have strict policies that prohibit any video recording within the building. In 2019, Chilean filmmaker Maete Alberdi did manage to bring a film crew into an eldercare residence.
- [A Kind of Madness](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/a-kind-of-madness/) - The one-line description of this movie most often used to describe it goes like this: “A 70-year-old man abducts his wife from her retirement home and goes on the run from their adult children.” The trailer for the film dramatically reinforces that description.
- [POST #11 <br> Ageism in Film: <br>An Enlightening Conversation with Jim and Rose](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-11-ageism-in-film-an-enlightening-conversation-with-jim-and-rose/) - ShareTweet Movies About Aging and Elderhood (MAA) had a chance to speak briefly with two veteran film reviewers (Jim Vanden Bosch and Rose Capp) about ageism, and how it is packaged, perceived, and portrayed in current films. MAA: Let’s start with an obvious question. What is your perception of ageism, and the potential impact it
- [The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/64/8/gnae070/7693395?searchresult=1#new_tab) - With its central premise of a pharmacological solution for memory restoration, the Apple TV series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (Bahrani et al., 2022) is the most recent and detailed exemplar of the second narrative category.
- [The Great Escaper](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/64/6/gnae032/7668667?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Based on a true story, the film details the efforts of 89-year-old WW2 British Navy veteran Bernard Jordan to attend the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations in France.
- [Helping an Aging Parent: A Forty-Year Perspective Across Generations](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/64/2/gnad161/7445668?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Helping an Aging Parent is structured neatly into two halves; the first incorporates excerpts from the 1983 and 1990 films and establishes the three generations of the Honel family.
- [Elizabeth is Missing](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/4/624/6158970?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The opening scenes in Elizabeth Is Missing are a master class in concise character development.
- [POST #10 <br> On the Road to Older Age: Insights from the 'Elder Odyssey'](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-10-on-the-road-to-older-age-insights-from-the-elder-odyssey/) - The "road movie" is a venerable narrative tradition that has been identified with the history of American cinema in the second half of the twentieth century.
- [Age of Adaline](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/6/942/6570800?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Age of Adaline is a well-crafted film that presents viewers with a fantasy that many entertain—living without aging.
- [Good Luck to You, Leo Grande](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/63/1/200/6783077?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Juniper](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/10/1522/6691897?searchresult=1#new_tab) - New Zealand feature film Juniper (Saville, 2021) represents an intriguing variation on the form.
- [Advanced Style](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/63/8/1405/7211658?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Determined: Fighting Alzheimer's](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/63/3/614/7024739?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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).
- [Alzheimer's: What You Can Do (Part 1 of 2)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/9/1384/6672865?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [The Prospector](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/63/6/1104/7171477?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Fast Forward](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/63/4/795/7069769?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [I Cannot Tell You How I Feel](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/63/2/395/6847096?searchresult=1&#038;login=false#new_tab) - 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.
- [Alzheimer's: What You Can Do (Part 2 of 2)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/10/1519/6678554?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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).
- [The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved my Life](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/4/642/6523861?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [POST #9 <br> To Age or Not to Age: Thoughts on the film "Paradise"](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-9-to-age-or-not-to-age-thoughts-on-the-film-paradise/) - Paradise, a new movie on Netflix, presents a rather intriguing storyline. Set in the future, scientists have discovered how to safely extract a designated amount of lifespan from one person and give it to another person—for a price. All that is needed is to find a match, a donor whose DNA will be accepted by the donee. (Movies set in the future have an immediate advantage. They do not have to spend much time and effort to validate their plausibility; they can simply take a far-out idea and run with it.) Despite this implausible premise, Paradise starts out as a well-made film.
- [Book Club](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/59/1/186/5238065#new_tab) - The new film, Book Club, while often relegated to the dismissive “Chick Flick” category, is ripe for some serious review and critique. I’m aware of the obvious risk here for me as a male to offer a review of a film that deals with sex and intimacy from an expressly woman’s point of view.
- [Going in Style (2017 remake)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/6/1188/5105930#new_tab) - Allow me to start this review on a personal note. In reviewing films for this journal, I have tried to find those films that present aspects of elderhood in an insightful or credible way, and that are often not well known. Such films, I’m finding, are harder and harder to come by. So, for this review, I decided to dip into the pool of more mainstream films that may simply be fun to watch without having much to meaningfully “say” about elderhood.
- [Going in Style (1979 original)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/6/1188/5105930?searchresult=1#new_tab) - But before I did that, I decided to watch the original film by the same name from 1979 that the newer Going in Style is based on. I’m glad I did. Where the new film is stale and trite, the original film is engaging and deeply respectful of elders.
- [Friend Request Pending](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/4/690/581660?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [The Intern](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/3/592/2605657/#new_tab) - Not often does a film as entertainingly watchable as The Intern carry within it a positive regard for the multigenerational nature of human life in the 21st century. Generational chasms may still exist in big sectors of our culture, but films like The Intern may help reduce their size. Not that The Intern is a didactic “message” film; far from it. It is light on its feet and simply fun to watch as it unfolds the story of a successful but harried young executive learning to accept, and then trust, the help of an older worker.
- [Still Mine (reviewed by Gayle Doll, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/1/145/2901467?searchresult=1#new_tab) - We started slow with Still Mine, a sweet and sad true tale of the losses a couple experienced as the wife begins a slow decline into dementia.
- [Inga](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/3/477/6507499?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Love Limits](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/1/145/6424852?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Go Gentle](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/5/978/5868041?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Dick Johnson is Dead](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/2/287/6029081#new_tab) - Rarely have I seen a film that looks at our human mortality as creatively and playfully as this one does. Before you turn away from reading any further about a subject so off-putting as death, let me say: See this film! It is not what you think it will be. I was avoiding even considering this film to review or see; the brief descriptions of it made it sound too grotesque.
- [Lolly Font, Yoga Rebel](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/2/284/6029089#new_tab) - Good things come in small packages—and brief ones as well. Though a short film, Lolly Font: Yoga Rebel has strong relevance for gerontological theorists, researchers, and educators, particularly those interested in the evolving meanings of successful aging. Director Liz Cane introduces us to 84-year-old Lolly Font, a yoga teacher nearing the end of her instructional career.
- [Coming of Age in Aging America](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/6/1187/4553359#new_tab) - Coming of Age in Aging America is perhaps the most important film to emerge to date within The New Gerontology paradigm. In contrast to the historically dour 4-D perspective on aging (decline, deterioration, dependency, depression), it is refreshingly optimistic and celebratory.
- [Grow Old Along With Me: The Poetry of Aging, Part 1](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/5/997/5538909#new_tab) - The prime motive behind this important and revealing video was the desire of filmmakers Anne Macksoud and John Ankele “to make a positive contribution to the issue of aging by finding wise and vital elders who would guide us through the process” (Anne Macksoud, Personal Communication, June 14, 2019).
- [Grow Old Along with Me: The Poetry of Aging - Part 2](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/6/1192/5588327#new_tab) - Few poets celebrate aging as exuberantly as Robert Browning in Rabbi Ben Ezra: “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.” Browning’s optimistic sentiments are purposefully embodied in the title and content of this lovely film produced by videographers Anne Macksoud and John Ankele.
- [Still Mine](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/1/134/564348/#new_tab) - One such new film, Still Mine, takes us into the lives of Craig and Irene Morrison as they face the gradual loss of Irene’s short-term memory (the comments that follow are elaborated from a review I did of this film for Itineraries, an online publication of Second Journey; Vanden Bosch, 2013b).
- [What Time is Left](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/52/6/868/633386/#new_tab) - As young videographer Dakin Henderson (What Time Is Left) drives to a family meeting to discuss his Grandmother Deedee’s desire for a living will, he sings a lament: “And I’m young and stupid. Oh to be old and wise, to be comfortable with the process of my own demise.” The lyric accurately captures the common theme of these two films—the life-long, continuous attempts that people make to come to terms with the meanings of aging and of death. Both films were motivated by different yet personally relevant death experiences.
- [Old](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/3/475/6507741?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Last Vegas](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/1/169/575865?searchresult=1#new_tab) - In the film, Last Vegas (Turteltaub, 2013), four older men romp like frat boys in Vegas while a paper thin plot resurrects a past grievance between two of them.
- [This is 40](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/2/355/564374?searchresult=1#new_tab) - In the recently released, This Is 40, we are shown a week in the lives of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) who are both turning 40. Debbie’s method of dealing with this is flat-out denial, whereas Pete is fine with a party for himself.
- [Trouble With the Curve](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/2/355/564374?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The recent feature film, Trouble with the Curve, portrays a different concern with the effects of aging. An alternative title for this film could have been Trouble with Aging. Clint Eastwood plays a crusty ill-tempered oldster (just as he did a few years ago in Gran Torino).
- [Ageless](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/7/1376/5872120#new_tab) - At last. From 2012 to the present, we have reviewed more than four dozen documentary films dealing with several major topics in gerontology and adult development, and aging. Though not excluded by intention, nowhere among those films was one devoted specifically to ageism.
- [The Kominsky Method](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/2/394/5316180#new_tab) - Humor can sometimes be a helpful diversion in dealing with uncomfortable emotions—but humor that is flippant and tin-eared is not. If I were confined to one adjective that best defines the new Netflix comedy, The Kominsky Method, it would be “flippant.”
- [Josef's Daughter](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/5/880/628303?searchresult=1#new_tab) - There is much that is novel about Josef’s Daughter. However, the viewer must be willing to move beyond its now-familiar message that middle aged adults are often confronted with a fresh awareness that aging and death are inexorably linked, that this linkage has undeniable personal relevance for them, and that some of them may have a difficult time coping with the fearsome implications of these facts.
- [About Face: Then and Now](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/2/353/564353#new_tab) - About Face: Then and Now is a revealing and realistic film about supermodels. With perfect beauty and smiling countenance, their faces capture would-be readers of the world’s most popular fashion magazines. They stride and slide confidently down fashion runways, expressing haute couture confidence befitting the expensive clothing they model.
- [The Iron Lady](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/1/172/618382#new_tab) - A more recent work, The Iron Lady (Lloyd, 2011), is exceptional for its unequivocal first- person focus. Like Iris, this film explores the life of a maverick British female figure. It begins with a seemingly unremarkable scene; an elderly woman purchases milk from an inner London corner shop and returns home to have breakfast with her husband.
- [Jim Vanden Bosch at Global Café](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/jim-vanden-bosch-at-global-cafe/) - When: Nov 21st 2021 Where: Global Café Jim Vanden Bosch was recently invited by the International Federation on Ageing’s Global Café to present thoughts on the impact film can have on our personal and cultural perceptions of aging and elderhood. Click below for a recording of this presentation and the lively discussion that followed.
- [POST #8 <br> Can We Talk about Sex and Aging? (Part One)](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-8-can-we-talk-about-sex-and-aging-part-one/) - “I don’t care what society says about women our age. Sex must not be taken off the table!” This double-entendre line from the recent film, Book Club, reflects a shift in public discourse about sex and aging. The film is a jovial portrayal of four older women’s discovery of the book, Fifty Shades of Grey.
- [POST #7 <br> "I Just Want Something Light!"](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-7-i-just-want-something-light/) - Many of us, at the end of a busy day, just want something light and entertaining to watch. For many individuals, this rules out watching anything to do with older adulthood; any film dealing with aging and growing older would not, by definition, be an entertaining film.
- [POST #6 <br> Can You Imagine Your Older Self?](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-6-can-you-imagine-your-older-self/) - When I was in my early twenties, I wrote a really bad poem about climbing trees at different points in my life: as a little kid, and then projecting all the way into my imagined eighties.
- [POST #5 <br> My Thoughts Left Word Prints on the Ground](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-5-my-thoughts-left-word-prints-on-the-ground/) - The other night I dreamt that I was walking outside and as I walked, my thoughts left word prints on the ground. The words just spilled out and arranged themselves on the ground behind me as I moved along.
- [POST #4 <br>How to Measure Successful Aging](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-4-how-to-measure-successful-aging/) - The concept of “successful aging” has been around for some time, and has gained increasing currency over the past few years. It is fueled by oodles of books, films, academic articles, newspaper columns, blogs, and social media musings. But how does one measure successful aging?
- [POST #3 <br>Romping in Vegas: How Stories Can Impact Your Health and Longevity](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/post-3-romping-in-vegas-how-stories-can-impact-your-health-and-longevity/) - Living in a society that uncritically accepts the denigration of aging and elderhood can be like living with polluted air. Polluted air will affect your health and longevity. Polluted perceptions of older adulthood can affect your emotional and physical health as well. Such perceptions of older adulthood are prevalent in the stories presented to us on TV and in films.
- [Lousy: Love in the Time of Dementia](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/5/792/6551699?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Being 97](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/3/477/6507499?searchresult=1#new_tab) - This thought-filled, evocative video focuses on Herbert Fingarette, 97-year-old grandfather of videographer Andrew Hasse.
- [POST #2 <br>“He makes boring films about old people.”](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/he-makes-boring-films-about-old-people/) - One day, many years ago, my teenaged son was introducing me to some of his friends. After the introduction, he added: “He makes boring films about old people.” We all had a good chuckle over that, but later it struck me as a poignant reflection of the societally ageist waters we all swim in every day—waters that refuse to nurture an acceptance of our human life cycle in its later stages. My son was simply reflecting back the perceptions of the culture he was swimming in.
- [POST #1 <br>Did our ancestors of 30,000 years ago make "movies"?](https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/did-our-ancestors-of-30000-years-ago-make-movies/) - Long before there were cameras to capture images, our early ancestors were creating images of their own.
- [Life and Death in Assisted Living (reviewed by Eilon Caspi, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/8/1347/6360989?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The film Life and Death in Assisted Living (PBS Frontline and ProPublica, 2013: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/life-and-death-in-assisted-living/) examined the care practices of Emeritus Corporation, which at the time was the country’s largest assisted living (AL) company.
- [306 Hollywood](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/62/2/315/6433771?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Grandma (reviewed by Thomas R. Cole, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/1/155/2605304#new_tab) - Grandma opens with the epigram “Time Passes, that’s for sure.” The film takes place in a single day and takes the form of a mini-road trip on which Elle (Lilly Tomlin)—a grandmother in her 70s who has just cut up her credit cards and is broke—sets out with her pregnant granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) to find $630 for an abortion and make it to her late afternoon appointment at a women’s health clinic.
- [The Father (reviewed by Paulan Gordon)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/7/1177/6332907?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The Father does an excellent job of portraying the lack of insight by a person living with dementia.
- [The Father (reviewed by Cyndy Hunt Luzinski, MS,RN)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/7/1174/6323015?searchresult=1#new_tab) - After Anthony Hopkins won the 2021 Oscar for best actor in The Father, our Dementia Together team viewed the film and found it creatively compelling and hopelessly heart-breaking—everything the cultural “tragedy narrative” around dementia would have us believe is inevitable and true.
- [The Father (reviewed by Jim Vanden Bosch)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/7/1172/6322976?guestAccessKey=ccfd7186-31bd-437a-837a-89787a8763c4#new_tab) - Nearly all the reviews of The Father in mainstream publications are enthralled with the film’s attempt to see dementia from the inside out—that is, from within the mind of the person experiencing dementia.
- [The Father (reviewed by Rose Capp, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/7/1170/6323029?searchresult=1#new_tab) - In the course of his seminal work in the dementia care field, Tom Kitwood noted that it was impossible “ … to enter fully into the experiential frame of another person, simply because each person is unique” (Kitwood, 1997, p. 71). Kitwood went on to observe that stepping into and describing the world of someone living with dementia, particularly in the more advanced stages, involved additional complexities, given that first-person accounts typically describe the early stages of dementia.
- [Fighting for Dignity](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/4/787/5816450#new_tab) - Fighting for Dignity, directed by Eilon Caspi and Judy Berry, is a provocative, and, at times, shocking video about injurious and fatal resident-to-resident incidents in long-term care. Viewer discretion is advised at the outset due to some scenes containing graphic images of victim injuries and acts of violence resulting in serious physical injury.
- [Breath Made Visible](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/1/205/5669940?searchresult=1#new_tab) - By presenting and teaching a form of dance that enables deep personal reflection and healing, Anna Halprin affected the lives of countless individuals over her decades-long career. (She is now 99 years old.) Breath Made Visible presents a rich visual mosaic of her work from her early years of performing on up through her later years of
- [I Care a Lot](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/5/800/6274447#new_tab) - Under the guise of benevolent guardianship, certain individuals in this country have learned how to use the legal system to steal the savings and property of vulnerable older adults after consigning them to a long-term care facility. These are not just a handful of bad-apple people; scores of them are operating throughout the United States—but just how many, no one knows.
- [The Guardians](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/5/800/6274447?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The Guardians does have some serious flaws, both structurally and tonally. At the outset, the narrative is hard to follow because a variety of people appear and speak without any identification; we do not know who they are and what their credentials are.
- [Mum and me](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/3/497/591240?searchresult=1#new_tab) - There has been a modest but notable increase in the number of fiction and nonfiction films addressing the subject of dementia in recent decades. Scottish documentary maker Sue Bourne’s 2008 film, Mum and Me, fits firmly into this burgeoning nonfiction subgenre.
- [Head Full of Honey](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/2/359/5754062?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Cloud 9 (reviewed by Arlo Compaan, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/1/147/2901468?searchresult=1#new_tab) - “Cloud 9” portrays the transformation of Inge, a 67-year-old woman, who discovers her positive shadow through a sexually alive relationship with Karl, a 76-year-old man. In her long-term marital relationship, she had not come to know the passion of her own sexual body.
- [Cloud 9 (reviewed by Gayle Doll, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/1/145/2901467?searchresult=1#new_tab) - I spent a lot of time prepping the group for the German movie, Cloud 9, which tells a story of a woman who has an affair with one of her customers for her tailoring business.
- [Cloud 9](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/5/966/2605373?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Cloud 9 (Dresen, 2008) is an extraordinary film from Germany that, in a way, bridges the gap between films that portray new love in later life and films that explore long-term love in later life.
- [45 Years (reviewed by Gayle Doll, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/1/145/2901467?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 45 Years, a recent film about a husband and wife about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary when the wife learns he was once engaged to another woman, led to our deepest and lengthiest discussion.
- [45 Years (reviewed by Arlo Compaan, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/1/147/2901468?searchresult=1#new_tab) - In “45 Years,” the organizing story line is the revelations about the marriage that result from Geoff’s learning of the discovery of the ice-encased, frozen body of Katya, his first love, who died when they were hiking in the Alps.
- [45 Years](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/6/1175/2952906?searchresult=1#new_tab) - An intriguing variation on the love triangle conceit has been created in the 2015 film, 45 Years.
- [Hope Springs (reviewed by Gayle Doll, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/1/145/2901467?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Most of us had already seen our third movie, Hope Springs, but we were surprised that tasked by the instructions to look for intimacy, we viewed the movie differently the second time.
- [Hope Springs](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/52/6/866/633403#new_tab) - In the film, Hope Springs, Nebraska residents Arnold and Kay have been married for 31 years. Each morning, Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) marches into the kitchen, places his suit coat and briefcase on a chair, and is served the same breakfast by Kay (Meryl Streep) which he eats behind the newspaper. Each night he falls asleep in front of an “improving your golf” program on TV and is woken up by Kay, after which they say good night and retire to their separate bedrooms. As trite and stereotypical as these early scenes in the film are, they do quickly establish the context out of which the movie unfolds
- [Cloudburst (reviewed by Gayle Doll, PhD)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/1/145/2901467?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Wanting to end on a lighter note, our final film was Cloudburst, a good-natured comedy starring Olivia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker, about a lesbian couple who takes a road trip to Canada to get married.
- [The Babushkas of Chernobyl (reviewed by Jim Vanden Bosch)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/1/191/4816819?searchresult=1#new_tab) - On April 24, 1986, a nuclear power plant in what was then still Soviet Ukraine overheated and exploded, resulting in several immediate casualties and the evacuation of thousands of area residents.
- [The Babushkas of Chernobyl (reviewed by Rick Scheidt)](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/1/193/4816816#new_tab) - There is a magnetic attraction in the stories of elders, who by choice or happenstance, face unique, and extreme life scenarios that exceed the imaginations of those of us who live securely under the thicker part of the normal curve. The Babushkas of Chernobyl is a riveting watershed for gerontologists.
- [No Time to Waste: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/5/797/6276899?searchresult=1#new_tab) - No Time to Waste introduces us to 95-year-old African American Betty Soskin, a woman who has lived through sharply dissonant epochs of racism in the United States. From birth through adulthood, she experienced the manifest race discrimination prevalent in the United States during a significant portion of the twentieth century.
- [Ask Dr. Ruth](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/1/205/5669940?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Into the Other Lane: Driving and Dementia](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/4/699/558306/#new_tab) - Into the Other Lane: Driving and Dementia, the longer of the two videos, relates the stories of five individuals and their care providers who are affected by dementia-related cognitive impairment.
- [Starlet](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/6/1057/636798/#new_tab) - Starlet is a rich and insightful film that traces the development of an unlikely friendship between two women separated by 64 years of life. Jane (Dree Hemingway), a 21 year old who is adrift and newly finding her way in Los Angeles, first meets Sadie (Besedka Johnson), an 85 year old crusty-tempered widow, at Sadie’s yard sale where Jane buys an old but decorative thermos to use as a flower vase.
- [Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/5/978/5868041#new_tab) - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project triggers viewers to reflect on the meaning of preserving the broader cultural memory of an entire society for 33 years through the video recordings of 24-hr news programs.
- [The Elders: Everyone is a Story](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/2/330/659614#new_tab) - An adult developmentalist recently told me that the main reason he enjoyed studying older adults is because “their bodies contain so many interesting variables” that are easily extracted with quantitative measures. To be sure, variable-oriented developmental science has contributed significantly to our understanding of the aging process.
- [My Father's House: A Journey of Love and Memory](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/2/378/3065481#new_tab) - At one point in this remarkable film, 89-year-old Dr. Peter Reimann, accompanied on piano by daughter Hannah Reimann, sings this brief German art song from Schubert’s Die Winterreise No. 15. The Raven (Die Krähe).
- [Bubbeh Lee and Me](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/60/1/207/5648973#new_tab) - 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.
- [The Farewell](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/6/1195/5588318#new_tab) - 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.
- [What They Had](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/59/4/795/5523730?searchresult=1#new_tab) - In the opening scenes of this captivating film, an older woman gets out of bed in the dark, gets partially dressed, and walks out of the house in a light jacket into a snowy night. The shot holds on her walking down the street for several seconds until she disappears into a shower of heavy snowfall. A wife/mother has disappeared, setting off panic on the part of her husband and children.
- [Faces Places](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/5/989/5055222#new_tab) - What happens when close-up pictures of human faces are enlarged and displayed in public spaces? Faces Places is a film that invites viewers along on a road trip to see the answer to this question. Agnes Varda, a well-known French filmmaker, who at 89 is still making films, teams up with a prolific and anonymous (but internationally known) 33-year-old street artist/muralist, called JR...
- [Diane](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/5/995/5543178#new_tab) - Diane is one of those rare films that reflects human life as it is—in all its personal complexity—rather than one of the more commonly gratuitous films that present excessively dramatized/glamorized views of life as many wish it to be.
- [95 And 6 To Go](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/4/792/5523729#new_tab) - 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.
- [Revolutionizing Dementia Care](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/3/591/5487873#new_tab) - Gerontologists are becoming increasingly aware of the advent and growth of the person-oriented model of care for individuals diagnosed with dementia or related conditions. Our On Film and Digital Media team has shared previous reviews of wonderful documentaries illustrating individually tailored applications of such care as creative role involvement, personalized music, and painting (Scheidt, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, respectively).
- [The Wife](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/3/589/5486626#new_tab) - The title of this film might foster assumptions about the underlying dramatic conflict that is at the film’s core, namely, a growing resentment on the part of a traditional wife standing behind the accomplishments of a husband who is a successful writer. The film itself does not quickly dismiss those assumptions.
- [Quilts in Women’s Lives](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/2/391/5306241#new_tab) - Quilters. What comes to mind? If you do not quilt and know little about those who do, perhaps you see an image of a frail old woman wearing a lavender dress with a lace collar. She is seated in a rocker and stitching with needle and thread (Fons, 2018).
- [Tell Them Who You Are](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/4/789/5000006#new_tab) - 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.
- [Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/3/608/4959172#new_tab) - By contrast, the opening of Alzheimer’s: Every Minute Counts presents a staccato march of sound bites invoking dire scenarios. “Alzheimer’s is an epic disease.” “It’s going to sink the health care economy.” “This disease will take us down.”
- [Living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/3/608/4959172?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia is introduced by singer Kathy Mattea who, after noting the struggles and challenges dementia brings to individuals and families, asks “How can you continue to live fully even with that diagnosis, and how can we as a community better support those who are living with dementia and their care partners?”
- [Marjorie Prime](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/2/401/4911387#new_tab) - Memory, and its loss, is a well-worn theme in many films, including several that explore the loss of memory due to dementia. But Marjorie Prime presents us with a new and intriguing supposition regarding the future of personal memories.
- [That Evening Sun](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/1/191/4816819#new_tab) - That Evening Sun, based on a short story by William Gay, tells the story of an old Tennessee farmer’s struggle to reclaim his farm and home. Widower Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook) ends up in a nursing home after slipping on a patch of ice and breaking a hip.
- [I, Daniel Blake](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/6/1189/4565656#new_tab) - 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.
- [Care](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/6/1189/4565656?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The new documentary, Care, aired recently on the WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed series, is the first documentary I know of that takes a deeply personal and behind the scenes look at the workings of the care-at-home system in the United States. It presents the stories of four elderly care-at-home recipients (three of these are in urban New York and one in rural Pennsylvania).
- [The Discovery](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/5/998/4079985?searchresult=1#new_tab) - In stark contrast to Uncle Boonmee, this film takes a much more Western approach, calling on science to give us proof of ongoing life after death. The film opens with neurology scientist Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford) giving an interview to a journalist.
- [Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/5/998/4079985#new_tab) - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a refreshingly different film by Thai director, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, that presents a seemingly casual acceptance of reincarnation as a given.
- [The Sense of an Ending](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/4/797/3858208#new_tab) - In The Sense of an Ending, we finally have another film that reflects on a character’s early and later life personas. The film’s main character, Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent), is jostled out of his somewhat routinized and placid life by a letter from the mother of one of his first serious girlfriends in college some 45 years earlier.
- [Beginners](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/2/376/3003322#new_tab) - Beginners opens with two silent shots—a close up of a vase of semi-fresh daisies and then a vacant living room with several boxes stacked to one side. In the next scene, also mostly silent, a young man removes some shirts from a closet, folds them, and places them in a box.
- [Another Year](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/6/1175/2952906?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Another Year, written and directed by Mike Leigh in 2010, is the singular and exceptional example of a film that portrays an older married couple without resorting to the traditional story line structured around a threat to the relationship.
- [Le Weekend](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/6/1175/2952906?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Another way to dramatically explore the character of an older spousal relationship is to locate the conflict within the relationship itself. The 2013 film, Le Weekend (written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Roger Michell), does this quite effectively.
- [Something's Gotta Give](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/5/966/2605373?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [And So It Goes](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/5/966/2605373?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Love is All You Need](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/5/966/2605373?searchresult=1#new_tab) - In the Danish film, Love Is All You Need (Bier, 2013) a very similar story unfolds—newly found romantic connection in the context of the wedding of children. An anger-holding long-time widower attends his son’s wedding in Italy, and while there becomes increasingly attracted to and then deeply in love with the mother of his daughter-in-law to be.
- [Last Chance Harvey](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/5/966/2605373#new_tab) - Last Chance Harvey (Hopkins, 2008) tells the story of an older musician, Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman), long ago divorced and somewhat estranged from his daughter, finding new love when he travels to London to attend his daughter’s wedding.
- [I'll See You in My Dreams](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/4/782/2605608/#new_tab) - Based on the verbal descriptions I had seen, I was ready to not like this film. My assumption: another film on the woes of dating and attaching in late life. While that is part of this film’s content, there is more, much more. And it is the more that slowly develops, and envelops, until the very last frames of this well-made film.
- [Youth](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/2/368/2952889/#new_tab) - Early in this film, a remark from one of its characters laments the fact that he has become known as an actor mostly for playing the role of a robot in one particular film. This remark turns out to be a reflection of the very nature of the film, Youth. Throughout much of its 2 hours, the film feels like it could have been made by a robot. The story line moves along in fits and starts, and the characters often speak their lines with an isolated demeanor rather than truly engaging with each other. Approached in the right way, however, the film can still be a pleasure to watch.
- [Angel's Perch](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/6/1060/2605497/#new_tab) - Angel’s Perch opens with a close-up shot of a young woman sleepily protesting having a cell phone camera recording her. The person with the camera responds “We’re going to want to remember these things someday.” Then, taking out a family heirloom ring, he proposes to the suddenly wide awake woman.
- [Life in Stills](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/6/1060/2605497?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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 .
- [Still Life](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/4/688/581960#new_tab) - Said Ismael Otruk is an 83 year-old Palestinian man born in the town of Acre in the 1930s. Now part of Israel, Acre is approximately 4,000 years old—“one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world”. Said and his family were forced to move from Acre during the Palestinian resettlement of 1948.
- [Wrinkles](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/5/878/2605313#new_tab) - Life in a long-term care facility is rarely explored in narrative films. A couple of exceptions to this, Quartet and Assisted Living , were recently reviewed in this journal ( Vanden Bosch, 2013 ). This topic remains one of the frontiers we do not enjoy visiting in our culture.
- [The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/4/690/581660?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Five Flights Up](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/4/690/581660?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [A Thousand Years of Good Prayers](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/4/690/581660/#new_tab) - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a wonderfully composed film about the reuniting of an older Chinese father with his only daughter after years of continental separation.
- [All Together](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/1/169/575865?searchresult=1#new_tab) - The premise of the film has potential; five older longtime friends move into one house in order to support each other in the face of a variety of health issues.
- [Unfinished Song](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/1/169/575865?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Unfinished Song (Williams, 2012) presents us with another story of transformation—this time, that of a grumpy old man.
- [The Stone Angel](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/1/169/575865#new_tab) - The Stone Angel (Skogland, 2007), based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author, Margaret Laurence, takes us on a life review through the eyes and memories of its main character, 90 year old Hagar Shipley (Ellen Burstyn). Faced with undefined health issues, she fiercely resists the attempts of her son and his wife to move her into a nursing home.
- [My Love Affair With the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/1/171/575819/#new_tab) - Move back historically to the formal birth and popularization of Rowe and Kahn’s paradigm for successful aging. Move back still farther to the 1970 and 1980 decades where gestational studies show how environmental experiences and lifestyle account for physical and psychological changes once thought due solely to primary aging. Clearly, “successful aging” and its sibs—productive aging, positive aging, and optimal aging—have a rich vertical lineage spanning several generations of researchers.
- [No Age Limit: Creativity and Aging](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/6/1059/2957458/#new_tab) - Old timers in gerontology will remember the challenge of its early days as we tried to convince a doubtful public as well as our skeptical students that human aging had any “up-side” at all. Successful aging was not yet a common part of our vocabulary.
- [Forget Me Not](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/5/883/628327/#new_tab) - When I first heard about this feature length documentary, I was prepared to see the same kind of story that has been filmed again and again—the usual angst that is so often presented in documentaries about this painful journey of families dealing with the loss of cognition and then recognition. But after just a few minutes into this family’s story, I sensed that this film would be different.
- [Backseat Bingo](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/4/714/651020/#new_tab) - For those too young to remember, “Backseat Bingo” is a 1950’s term for light sexual activity (or more) that occurs in the back seat of a vehicle. Liz Blazer’s Backseat Bingo is a 6-min animated documentary that invites a handful of retired elders to share their personal attitudes and values about sex, romance, and aging.
- [Last Love](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/3/517/2953342/#new_tab) - When an older man and a younger woman are drawn to each other in a movie, red flags pop up. We expect to go down the typical road of mutual, or perhaps, one-way exploitation in the relationship.
- [The Way We Get By](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/3/514/2953344/#new_tab) - The Way We Get By offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of three elderly Maine Troop Greeters at the Bangor Airport. Because of its eastern-most location, the Bangor Airport has served as the major departure and arrival point of more than a million U.S. troops involved in the Iraqi and Afghanistan theaters of war.
- [Life According to Sam](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/2/322/636537/#new_tab) - This multiple-award winning video provides a smooth flowing, intimate, 2-year portrait of life within a family dealing with Hutchinson–Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), a rare and fatal genetic disorder more commonly referred to as “premature aging syndrome.”
- [Nebraska](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/2/324/636520?searchresult=1#new_tab) - 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.
- [Philomena](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/2/324/636520/#new_tab) - Back in the mid 50s in Ireland, when she was a teenaged unwed mother to be, Philomena Lee was banished from her family and sent to a convent to have her child. She and the other young women sent there for the same reason were allowed contact with their babies for 1hr a day.
- [The Bucket List](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/5/882/594139#new_tab) - The two men initially banter with each other and then develop a supportive relationship. When Edward finds a discarded “bucket list” started and then abandoned by Carter, he suggests that they make it a joint list and then go out and do the things on the list while they are still able.
- [Departures](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/5/882/594139#new_tab) - In Departures, the topic of death is initially objectified and held at a distance. By the end of the film, death has become more personal. Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a young aspiring cellist in Tokyo and is deep in debt from the purchase of a new cello.
- [The Genius of Marian](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/6/1056/636828/#new_tab) - The Genius of Marian focuses on a family affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Marian Williams Steele (1912–2001) was a noted watercolor artist who died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 89. Pam White, her daughter, at age 61 began to compose a book, The Genius of Marian, as a tribute to her mother.
- [Amour](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/3/518/838903#new_tab) - After winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012, Michael Haneke’s Amour has received rave reviews from most reviewers, and more recently, an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. At first viewing, Amour seems like it could be a departure from Haneke’s other films, which ask the viewer to tolerate wanton violence or at least the ever-foreboding threat of violence.
- [Ten More Good Years](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/3/516/838910/#new_tab) - Ten More Good Years documents the experience of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender aging. Prior to viewing this outstanding film, I wondered why anyone with any sensitivity would lump lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender aging within one now-familiar acronym—LGBT. Categorical thinking, after all, makes far too easy the negative stereotyping and discrimination used so often to create, denigrate, and disenfranchise those who are not “straight.”
- [To Age or Not to Age](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/2/355/564374#new_tab) - In To Age or Not to Age, independent filmmaker Robert Kane Pappas has put together a fascinating exploration of what current research has discovered about the potential to alter the biological process of aging in humans and other animal life forms. The film does a good job of taking a potentially difficult to understand science and making it understandable at a basic level. In the film, several leading researchers talk about how discoveries that were made in the early 1980s are now being refined and brought to clinical trials to test their effectiveness at delaying the onset of major diseases in humans, and thereby extending the human life span.
- [Alive Inside: The Story of Music and Memory](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/1/175/618359#new_tab) - Alive Inside is an epiphanic film. It demonstrates what happens when Dan Cohen, a social worker in an East Coast nursing home, plays personally tailored music via iPod headsets for older residents diagnosed with dementia and other “imprisoning” disorders. The results are simple and striking. The residents awaken and come alive. They move, sing, and dance.
- [How to Live Forever](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/52/6/868/633386?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Mark Wexler’s odyssey in How to Live Forever is an energetic, sometimes serious, sometimes amusing, but always interesting popular culture panorama about humankind’s efforts to extend both active and maximum longevity.
- [A Separation](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/52/5/722/653083#new_tab) - Set in modern-day Tehran, A Separation opens with one long three-and–a-half-minute shot, in which a wife and husband passionately address an unseen (but occasionally heard) judge. At issue is a divorce that the wife wants because her husband will not leave the country with her and their 11-year-old daughter as they had previously agreed to do.
- [Last Will and Embezzlement: Scholastic Edition](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/52/5/724/653085/#new_tab) - At the outset of Last Will and Embezzlement: Scholastic Edition, the narrator states, “Of all of the illicit and illegal enterprises in the world, it is the criminal’s dream. It requires the least amount of risk, requires minimum outlay, can be done right from your living room, and is virtually unreported by its victims.” The “it” he is referring to is elder exploitation or financial abuse.
- [Lifting Up the Voices of Older Survivors](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/60/3/585/5728661#new_tab) - Lifting Up the Voices of Older Survivors is a smartly conceived, highly useful online platform comprised of nine brief “stand alone” videos and neatly designed supporting materials targeting elder abuse. We have reviewed other informative videos dealing with elder abuse in the past (Scheidt, 2012, 2017). However, Lifting Up the Voices of Older Survivors is unique.
- [The Story of Shadow and Light: Giving Voice to an Alzheimer’s Journey](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/60/3/583/5803036#new_tab) - Who would have thought that the experience of living with Alzheimer’s could be set to music? In Eugene, Oregon a music conductor, Diane Retallack, having experienced two generations of dementia in her family, knew that there could be great value in bringing a musically artistic expression to that experience.
- [Old People Driving: A Film About the End of the Road](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/4/699/558306?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Shaleece Haas’s award-winning short video, Old People Driving, is a charming film. This video focuses on two very old, cognitively intact men—Haas’s 96-year-old grandfather, Milton, and 99-year-old Herbert. The choice of Milton and Herbert signals a useful view into our future, as ranks of drivers aged 85 and older are swelling with the population aging of the oldest old.
- [Linking Up: The Graying of AIDs](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/1/136/564334#new_tab) - Well-known gerontologist Dr. James Birren once told me that in the late 1940s, all of the gerontologists in the United States could fit comfortably in one modest size hotel meeting room. He should know; he was there. Thanks to the leadership of Birren and so many others, modern gerontology has advanced vigorously since those days. Since its founding in 1945, the Gerontological Society of America has provided a formal organization for linking the diverse disciplines defining the study of aging and aged individuals.
- [Innocence](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/52/6/866/633403#new_tab) - The one other film that deals authentically with late life marital intimacy is Innocence, produced and directed by Australian filmmaker Paul Cox in 2000. Like Hope Springs, Innocence addresses the issue of lifelessness and resignation in the relationship of an older couple.
- [Nourish the Body and Soul](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/5/981/5859943#new_tab) - Nourish the Body and Soul is a well-crafted, solution-filled, uplifting video that shows long-term care providers ways to enhance dining experiences of residents in their facilities. Produced by Action Pact, a culture change company, the film illustrates innovative, context-specific dining options currently used in a dozen nursing homes across the United States.
- [Cyber-Seniors](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/2/399/4911388#new_tab) - 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.
- [The Mayor](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/5/881/594145/#new_tab) - The Mayor is a film that should be viewed by every serious student of gerontology. In a display of remarkable trust, selected residents of Town Village North, a retirement community in Dallas, TX, share their daily lives—public and private thoughts, feelings, and activities—with brilliant documentarian Jared Scheib. The most intimate focus is placed upon 88-year-old Sam Berger, called “the Mayor” by other residents because of his irrepressible social largess.
- [Finding Tatanka](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/3/590/2605658#new_tab) - 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 .
- [The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/5/875/2605311#new_tab) - The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne is a stylish, engrossing, and ultimately sad film about an 84-year-old Black American woman who achieved fame and notoriety as a world-class jewel thief in a career that spans 64 years. In the opening and closing scenes of the video, Doris, then 80 years old, is accused of stealing an $8,000 diamond ring from a Macy’s store in San Diego.
- [Fred Won't Move Out](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/1/174/618378#new_tab) - One of the biggest challenges in creating a narrative film around a character who has dementia is to convincingly portray the effects of that dementia. Dementia is usually not something one can “act” from internal experience. It can only be portrayed by closely observing the wide ranging effects that a cognitive impairment like dementia imposes.
- [You See Me](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/2/370/2952890#new_tab) - 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.”
- [I Won't Go](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/3/606/4958568#new_tab) - Oli Truss is a single older housebound woman in her nineties who lives alone in her rural home somewhere in Britain. As a child, videographer Georgina Hurcombe was her neighbor. She recalls the animals running around on Oli’s property and how “she used to teach me math after school.” That was 15 years ago.
- [The Age of Love](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/4/784/2605615#new_tab) - At the outset of The Age of Love , an elderly man shows videographer Steven Loring a snapshot of his wife and himself taken at night: “We were right in the woods and it was great. We could sit in the creek with a case of beer in the water. You love each other and you have a good time, no matter what you do—whether it’s drinking or walking or sitting at the fire at night.
- [From Nine to Ninety](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/1/158/2605303#new_tab) - 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.
- [Love Is Strange](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/6/1062/2957460#new_tab) - Of all the stories we enjoy hearing and seeing in films, stories about love—or the lack of it—seem to be at the top of the list. Try to think for a moment of a film that tells a story without any love-related component.
- [Will Power](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/3/473/6131978?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Will Power is a film about a saddening and dissolving family occurrence. Videographer and narrator Tom Garber shares with us his involvement in a contentious legal battle between himself and his siblings over opposing inheritance claims made on the family homeplace following the death of their parents.
- [Fear of Falling: A Matter of Balance](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/1/129/5960280#new_tab) - Fear of Falling opens with scenes of common possible hazards in the everyday environments of older adults, including stairs, escalators, carpets and rugs, sidewalks in disrepair, and bathtubs with slippery surfaces. The film’s major premise is expressed in Rooseveltian terms by host Elayne Letraunik: “Sometimes the fear can be just as dangerous as the thing that we’re afraid of.”
- [Quartet](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/4/701/558303#new_tab) - A new film directed by Dustin Hoffman, takes place in an upscale retirement home in the classical rolling countryside of the United Kingdom. One of the best things about the film is the ever-recurring stream of live and energetic classical music pouring out of it. Another is watching older professional performers play and/or sing this music.
- [Assisted Living](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/4/701/558303#new_tab) - Assisted Living is an engaging film—part fiction, part documentary—that takes us into the nitty-gritty of life in a long-term care facility in the United States. The film is unusually rich and perceptive in its portrayal of images and themes associated with aging in an institutional setting. It is the creation of a 22-year-old film student.
- [I Remember Better When I Paint](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/56/5/968/2605375#new_tab) - I Remember Better When I Paint is perhaps the most important documentary to date dealing with our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and the nearly 47 million persons worldwide currently afflicted with dementia. It should be required viewing of every gerontology educator and practitioner, regardless of years in rank.
- [Alive Inside: Reprise](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/6/1058/2605499#new_tab) - Perhaps the greatest power of documentary film is its ability to reveal to us experiences, feelings, and events that might have otherwise remained beyond our awareness and our imagination. Two years ago in this space ( Scheidt, 2013 ), I reviewed a brief version of “Alive Inside,” a video by Michael Rossato-Bennett.
- [Forever, Chinatown](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/6/1190/5103509#new_tab) - Emmy-nominated Forever, Chinatown is the most enchanting and salutary documentary film I have ever viewed. Director James Chan explores the remarkable psychological and physical embodiment of “sense of place” exuded by the artistic creations of 81-year-old artist Frank Wong.
- [Ordinary Love](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/6/1182/5863165#new_tab) - Rarely does a major motion picture come along that captures the nuanced and everyday character of the love between long-married couples. When movies do tell the love stories of older adults, they usually fall back on the commonly sought-after romantic stories of new love.
- [My Claire](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/6/1179/5863163#new_tab) - My Claire is a very brief feature (cinematic) film about Henry, an elderly man trying to cope with the recent death of his beloved spouse, Claire. At its onset, we are immediately made aware that this film deals with death, grief, and mourning. Henry is having a tough time of it
- [A Secret Love](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/7/1374/5869480#new_tab) - Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel met in 1947 while playing hockey in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. They were immediately attracted to each other and soon formed a lifelong partnership that lasted for 72 years. A Secret Love engagingly tells the story of their relationship formed during a time when same sex couples were extremely vulnerable to societal scorn and persecution, and family rejection.
- [Last Flag Flying](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/8/1575/5912524#new_tab) - Last Flag Flying takes place in 2003—the year that Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was captured and sentenced to hang. The film opens with Vietnam War veteran Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell) walking into a nearly empty bar on a rainy night. He orders a beer from the brash-sounding bartender and after some brief conversation with him, says, “You don’t remember me, do you?”
- [The Mole Agent](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/1/127/5960279#new_tab) - Have you ever wished to be a “fly on the wall” in a residential care facility so you could observe the kind of care being given to a family member, or just to see the kind of dynamic being played out between residents and staff? Watching The Mole Agent will give you a sense of what that would be like.
- [Elder Voices: Stories for These Times](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/60/8/1577/5959954#new_tab) - At the outset of Elder Voices, we are immediately embroiled in a series of modern social tragedies that have become all too familiar in the United States in the last couple of decades. We hear tearful voices on the emergency calls made by victims and observers of mass shootings.
- [The Disappearance of My Mother](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/3/470/6075545#new_tab) - 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.
- [Some Kind of Heaven](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/4/627/6158272#new_tab) - The overriding question that this new feature-length documentary may trigger for viewers is: What is the meaning of life in its later years? Some Kind of Heaven follows the lives of four older individuals who are living in The Villages, a huge and sprawling retirement community an hour north of Orlando, Florida.
- [Exercise: It’s Never Too Late](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/61/1/129/5960280?searchresult=1#new_tab) - Exercise: It Is Never Too Late is the video equivalent of an energy drink, designed to perk up older sedentary viewers benumbed by myths of age-related activity. Elayne Letraunik introduces a litany of false beliefs at the outset of the film, fictions “that trick us into allowing inactivity to sneak into our lives.”
- [Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/3/495/591239#new_tab) - This film opens on an interview with 82 year-old George (“Jack”) William Hall. Twenty-one years ago, his son—hooked on drugs as a teenager—“finally hanged himself.” Jack explains: “One day this dope dealer was bragging about how he made his money. He didn’t make no more. I stopped him.”
- [Dying Wish](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/5/1001/4158072#new_tab) - The defining theme of Dying Wish is offered at its outset by 80-year-old retired surgeon Dr. Michael Miller, who suffers from late-stage terminal cancer: “I’m Michael Miller. Soon I will discontinue drinking and eating and drift into death in days.
- ["He Wouldn't Turn Me Loose"](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/4/799/3869093#new_tab) - Introductory training on elder abuse often begins with a brief definition like this one: “Elder abuse, also known as elder mistreatment, generally refers to any knowing, negligent act that causes harm or creates a serious risk of harm to an older person by a family member, caregiver, or other person in a trust relationship (Office of Justice Programs [Office for Victims of Crime], 2017)."
- [Tracing Roots: A Weaver's Journey](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/5/991/5051927#new_tab) - Tracing Roots is a thoughtful, revelatory, beautifully photographed artistic mystery involving a close association between two journeys separated by hundreds of years. The first journey was taken in the Pacific Northwest sometime between 1720 and 1853 AD by an 18-year-old indigenous male on an overland walking trip (Hebda, Greer, & Mackie, 2012).
- [Edith + Eddie](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/58/4/791/5000057#new_tab) - The opening moments of Edith + Eddie lead us to believe we are entering a story about the nature of love shared between newly-weds Edith, age 96, and Eddie, age 95. Videographer Laura Checkoway was attracted by the growing internet attention received by “America’s oldest interracial newly-weds.” Edith is black; Eddie is white.
- [There is a Place](https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/57/3/585/3760166#new_tab) - There Is a Place is a brief video about the salutary impact that active and shared musical experience has on elders with dementia. It is a film that should come with a warning label for viewers, especially those already who know that music has the potential to reveal the essential sense of self presumed lost to the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease

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