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November 29, 2006
Assorted Recommendations
*We've seen two terrific movies over the last week:
An old one--You Can't Take It With You, with Jimmy Stewart (my favorite actor of all time!), hilarious and sweet.
And a recent one, Children of Heaven, directed by Majid Majidi. Years ago, I saw his movie Colors of Paradise, a heartbreaking but luminous film about the way that a blind boy experiences the world. Children of Heaven told a simple story--an Iranian brother and sister have to share one pair of sneakers between them--in a profoundly moving way. It captures a child's point of view in a way that reminds me a bit of Ponette. The two children are incredible actors, innocent but performing with shattering intensity.
*And we just rented a wonderful film from Netflix, Joyeux Noel. We saw it last year in one of Pittsburgh's fabulous itty-bitty theaters that features independent and foreign films. It's based on a true story of a very short ceasefire on the first Christmas Eve of WWI. It's one of the best war films I've ever seen, right up there with Life is Beautiful and Jean (son of the Impressionist) Renoir's La grand illusion
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