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The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

Posted onJanuary 5, 2022February 6, 2022AuthorArts & Faith

James Ivory immediately sets the tone for his film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day. In late 1950’s England, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), head butler of over 30 years for the once thriving Darlington Hall, wanders down or peers into hallways that are Read More …

CategoriesTop 25 Films Memory, Top 25 Films on Growing Older, Top 25 Lists

You Can't Take it With You

You Can’t Take it With You

Posted onJanuary 5, 2022February 5, 2022AuthorArts & Faith

Do we really believe that wisdom, joy, peace, and courage are the fruit of old age? We may know it from saints or from special people in our own lives, but we probably don’t know it from the movies. Here, then, is our antidote to Read More …

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Madadayo

Madadayo

Posted onJanuary 5, 2022February 5, 2022AuthorArts & Faith

As Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) aged, so did his films’ protagonists. Gone are the unformed young men of earlier decades, ripe for a jolt of enlightenment. Instead, the leads in his late films are reaping the consequences of decades of character formation, either condemned Read More …

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Another Year

Another Year

Posted onJanuary 5, 2022May 6, 2022AuthorArts & Faith

British filmmaker Mike Leigh finds the extraordinary in everyday circumstances, focusing on characters who navigate difficult emotional tasks with a sense of optimism and hope. The happy couple in Another Year is Tom and Gerri Hepple (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen), an elderly pair who love food, Read More …

CategoriesTop 25 Films Marriage, Top 25 Films on Growing Older, Top 25 Lists

Summer Hours

Summer Hours

Posted onJanuary 5, 2022May 16, 2025AuthorSheikh Javed Mansuri

As the sun sets on a chapter of history, a beautiful estate in the countryside outside of Paris becomes the setting for this intricate meditation on art and history: What makes an object valuable? How is globalization changing our values? How is it changing the Read More …

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Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 16, 2025AuthorArts & Faith

Until very late in Yasujiro Ozu’s film Tokyo Story, there is no crisis more dramatic than some uncomfortable silences. So what is it that makes this film one of the most revered dramas ever crafted? It’s the simplest of stories: An elderly couple—Shukichi and Tomi—drop in Read More …

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The Man Who Planted Trees

The Man Who Planted Trees

Posted onDecember 31, 2021February 16, 2022AuthorArts & Faith

This beautifully animated short film begins before World War I in the deserted and desertified foothills of the Alps in southern France, where the narrator, on a hiking excursion, meets the peasant Elzéard Bouffier. Having lost his family, Bouffier has decided to dedicate the rest Read More …

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The Gleaners & I

The Gleaners & I

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 2, 2025AuthorArts & Faith

Agnès Varda tells as much about her own experiences and feelings growing older as she does about the history and practice of gleaning, an occupation that has itself grown old. By placing herself as the documentary’s ultimate gleaner, she collects wisdom about her subjects, her Read More …

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Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 2, 2025AuthorArts & Faith

Bark Cooper, one of the two elderly protagonists of Leo McCarey’s MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937), boasts of one and only one accomplishment in his life. When he was a young man, Bark won the heart of his wife Lucy over a rival who became Read More …

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