Movies and Series to Stream
These are wonderful pieces to watch
“The Lady Bird Diaries” on Netflix
The progression of the US Presidency to include Civil Rights Acts and protection of Nature through ecological laws and developments. The sorrows of the Vietnam war. Eartha Kitt famously snd rightly speaks up at the Ladies Doers Luncheon. A story of an individual woman placed in historic times and powerful places told through her POV doing what she decides is right while loving her man and defining her own place in history.
"The Story of Film: An Odyssey" by Mark Cousins
2011 Documentary; 15 episodes @ 1 hour each
where: Kanopy (through your library card)
where: Tubi (free to sign-up and watch, maybe has ads)
Since the New Millenium what is new, what is the gorilla. The reality came back - as documentaries - partly due to the camcorder footage of 911. Fiction cinema looked old hat in comparison. Reality was more dramatic than escapism.
Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore (2004) was a huge hit. President Bush was being filmed when he heard about the attacks on the Twin Towers. He captures 2004's most memorable movie moment about Power and Indecision.
"Great Expectations" by Alfonso Cuaron
1998 Fiction 1:51; movie; Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro
where: Max
Modernization of the Charles Dickens classic placing the story in the rural south and NYC. Finn becomes a successful artist whose work is represented by real drawings and paintings by Francesco Clemente, the 80s Italian darling.
"Paris, Texas" by Wim Wenders
1984 Fiction 2:25 movie
Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson
where: Max
Written by L.M. Kit Carson / Sam Shepard / Walter Donohue
Wonderful combination of German, French, European actors and crew with American actors and tech shot in Texas - from Big Bend to Northeast plains to Houston and the Los Angeles suburbs of Santa Clarita
So much better now than when I first saw it in the 80s.
“The Year Earth Changed” by Tom Beard
2021 documentary; narrated by David Attenborough
Where: AppleTV
Vision of how the World improved immeasurably when mankind was under lockdown during the first year or do of Lockdown. Animals thrived; Sea creatures could communicate easily, Birds expanded their repertoire. Amen.
