Encounter Point

Wednesday night Mike and I watched Encounter Point. Wow.  What an incredible documentary.  From the website:  
Encounter Point is an 85-minute feature documentary film that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their lives and public standing to promote a nonviolent end to the [...]

Big Damn Heros.

On June 22, 2008 my parents will celebrate 61 years of marriage.  Some days, I don’t know how they did it.  My mom is in a nursing home and my father lives by himself in the house I grew up in.  

We’re selling the house to buy one next to my sister so my mom [...]

KING OF KONG

Well, it seems like we’re on a Netflix spree right now.  We watched King of Kong and as documentaries go, this one is very fun.  It takes us through the hardened world of arcade gamers in pursuit of the high score.  The film follows Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell on their pursuit of the world record score [...]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

This is a stirring movie.   The cinematography captures the loneliness of the midwest plains and the haunting obsession of Robert Ford with Jesse James.  As devotion turns to bitterness and hatred the wide-angle shots of cloud-filled skies at dusk, hanging over the dry golden plains … a chilling combination.    And the snow; stark [...]

3:10 to Yuma, Part Two

So after talking with Mike this morning about 3: 10 to Yuma, we started naming our favorite Westerns.   At the top of the list for both of us:  Once Upon a Time in the West.  What an incredible epic.    Number two?  That’s harder.  Unforgiven?   Maybe.  A Spaghetti Western?  Maybe.   What about Treasure [...]