Posted in movies, peaceful world on Jul 21st, 2008
The year before the first Desert Storm, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit my husbands family in Baghdad. It was the year I fell in love with them… these beautiful loving people that accepted me so lovingly into their home and their life. I had big dreams of going back every few years to [...]
I have seen the film "Water" in the video stores for quite some time now. It was first released in 2005 and I finally picked it up a few weeks ago. "Water", which is spoken in Hindi, takes you back in time to Varanasi, India in 1938 during British rule [...]
Posted in movies on Jun 2nd, 2008
When I first walked past this movie in the video store I saw the pink cover with a dorky looking guy on the front and thought to myself "that looks like a really stupid move".
But then as I was looking through a review on another movie, I spotted the pink cover again with [...]
Posted in movies on May 29th, 2008
I had the opportunity to watch this DVD a few weeks ago.
"Turtles can fly" is a film written and directed Bahman Ghobad , a Kurdish film maker from Iran.
The film takes place in a refugee camp along the Iraq-Turkish border before the Americans invaded Iraq in 2003 and consists of mainly child actors who [...]
Just happened to glance at this in the video store while passing by and was drawn to it by the beautiful cover and all the awards it won. With that many awards it was sure to be good.
Turns out it was beyond good, it reached right in my soul and made me [...]
My local library is subscriber to "Film Movement" a distributor of independent and foreign films. I started ordering some to watch on the weekends as I have been getting somewhat bored with the type of movies that Hollywood has been turning out these days.
When I picked up the movie "Arranged" I had know [...]
Posted in movies, peaceful you on Mar 16th, 2008
My family thought I was crazy for thoroughly enjoying this movie. I loved it so much I have to see it again to catch everything I missed the first time around. Director Wes Anderson is known for his incredible eye for detail so I am sure there is a ton of [...]
Posted in movies on Mar 16th, 2008
Into the Wild is a movie based on book written by Jon Krakauer about the true adventures of Christopher McCandless, a young man who just graduated from college. Instead of pursuing a career and entering into society as most young graduates do, Christopher took risks that most people would not dare to take and [...]
Posted in be inspired, movies on Mar 28th, 2007
La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful), is one of my all time favorite films. I first saw it in 1998 after it won three academy awards. It left such an impression on me that I think back to it quite often, especially when facing difficult times in my life.
Roberto [...]
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