 By Lauren Selman | Bio
“Sarah…just saw Avatar, it was great!” “Mark…wants you to see Avatar!”
The facebook status updates of my friends keep pouring in. Not
interested in another blockbuster blow-em-up movie, I looked to my
various communities to see what people think and sure enough the
reviews are there too. Young and old, Democrat or Republican,
Eco-Conscious and Eco-Hating, the status updates had a clear message,
to see Avatar. Okay, fine! I’ll see it. I had been told it was an “environmental
justice” movie while other friends described the movie as a work of
“art,” so I didn’t know what I was in for.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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I am always a little amazed and delighted when I discover something
that I didn’t even know existed. The older I become, the more delighted
I seem to be. For example, this week I’ve been having a vacation at
home. Basically that means playing the tourist in the city where I
live, going to new restaurants and generally wandering around. Someone
recommended a new movie called “Across the Universe”—a musical about
the 1960s written round the music of the Beatles. I never heard of the
director, Judy Taymor, and all I can say is WOW!! The movie was a
masterpiece. I can’t begin to fathom the mind of its writers and
creators and Ms. Taymor is now at the top of my list of creative
artists not to be missed.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Retirement
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I came home still a little teary and deeply moved after seeing Peter O’Toole’s new film Venus,
a tour de force about a love affair, albeit chaste, between Maurice, an
aging (80 something) lothario, and Jessie, an angry and unsophisticated
young woman (20 something). I was eager to read the reviews and shocked
to find that most viewers had put it down (6 on a scale of 10) largely
as a reflection of their discomfort with the suggestions of sexual
intimacy across such a wide generational divide. From my
perspective, it was a masterpiece depicting our cultural expectations
for aging and the possibility of living life full of love, passion and
even desire to the last day. [ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging
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