Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema:
There have been more and more films about the lives of people as they grow older. While the circumstances as to family, love, usefulness, money, health may change, every good film about growing older shows in stirring and surprising ways the truth and beauty of Eli Siegel’s statement: “The desire of a person of eighty to like himself and the world is as keen as it was when that person was eight.”
Some of the films I’ll be discussing in this class are: Cocoon; Umberto D; Ikiru; The Straight Story; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Driving Miss Daisy; Ethel and Fred