Older and even more handsome.

I promised Jeffey and HaHa, at our recently held SOUTHERN GOTHIC REUNION 2018, I'd come up with a list of some of my favorite movies and series. This may include some of the ones we discussed as well as some I'm going to send to HaHa and Sybil.
You can leave comments and your own recommendations under this post. 
*Favorite Faves of my Faves
Love, ʑɛɬ

MOVIES
Impromptu *
Cold Comfort Farm *
The Secret of Roan Inish *
Temple Grandin (True story) *
Quartet
The Secret Life of Bees *             
Les Choristes
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) *
Waking Ned Devine *
Tous Les Matins Du Monde (subtitles) (Amazon Prime)
Much Ado About Nothing (w/Kenneth Branagh) *
A Man Called Ove (Amazon Prime)
Burn After Reading
Little Miss Marker (1980, w/Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Bob Newhart, and Tony Curtis) *
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window and Disappeared (Amazon Prime) *
Hotel Du Lac (1986)
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Stranger than Paradise (1984)
Bella (Eduardo Verastegui, Tammy Blanchard, Manny Perez) *
Henry V (w/Kenneth Branagh) *
The Last King
A Room with a View (1985 - Helena Bonham Carter and Daniel Day-Lewis) *
About Time (Domhnall Gleeson, Bill Nighy, and Rachel McAdams)
Jane Eyre (1996 version, then 2011 version, then 1997 version) *
Miss Julie (Dark movie)
Marcelino pan y vino (1955 - you'll need subtitles.)
Around the Bend (2004)
Le Fabuleux Destin d' Amelie Poulain / Amelie (2001, subtitles) *
Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles / A Very Long Engagement (2004, subtitles)
A la folie ... pas du tout / He Loves Me ... he Loves Me Not (2002, subtitles)
De Vrais Mensonges / Beautiful Lies (2010, subtitles)
Sense and Sensibility (1995) *
Tombstone (1994)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Good Lie (2013)
Middlemarch (1994 with Rufus Sewell) *
Ladies In Lavender (2004 - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Bruhl - violin performances by Joshua Bell) *
Les Enfants du Siècle (1999 - you'll need subtitles.)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945 - worth watching even if only for the scenery/sets.)
Pride and Prejudice (1995 version with Colin Firth)
The Horse Whisperer
A River Runs Through It
Stranger Than Fiction *
La Strada (1954, subtitles)
Sophie Scholl
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)
La Vita E Bella / Life Is Beautiful
Dangerous Liaisons (1988 w/Glen Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer)
Pan's Labyrinth
The Last Picture Show
Let the Right One In (2007, subtitles) *
Valmont (1989, a version of Dangerous Liaisons with Colin Firth)
Monsieur Lazhar (subtitles)
Don Juan DeMarco (Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp, beautiful soundtrack) *
Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993, subtitles)
I Really Hate My Job
Florence Foster Jenkins *
Genius (2016, Colin Firth, Jude Law)
Babette's Feast
Oranges and Sunshine (This isn't listed in the documentary genre, but it's a true story.)
Hector's Search for Happiness
Jeff, Who Lives At Home*
Wind River

DOCUMENTARIES
Meru
The Keepers (Netflix)
Planet Earth II (Netflix)
Uncertain (Amazon Prime ~ I purchased and streamed. Well worth the money. Might be free on YouTube.)
IRIS
Who's Yehudi? (Available for free on YouTube.)

NOTE: I'll be adding to this list ... am looking for the list I've kept, but can't find it at the moment.

SERIES                                                                              Broadway
The Night Of (HBO) *                                                          Billy Crystal 700 Sundays
CHEF (British) *
Firefly *
Northern Exposure *
Cracker (British) *
Call the Midwife (British)
The Vicar of Dibley (British) *
Clatterford aka Jam and Jerusalem (British) *
Shut Eye (HULU)
Case Histories (Jason Isaacs) (British)
Happy Valley (British) (Netflix)
Black Mirror
Absolutely Fabulous (British)
Miranda (British)
Last of the Summer Wine (British)
Doc Martin (British) (Netflix)
Midsomer Murders (British) (Netflix)
Peaky Blinders (Netflix) (use subtitles)
Altered Carbon (Netflix)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Hulu)
Ozark (Netflix)
Alias Grace (Netflix)
Mindhunter (Netflix)
Broadchurch (Netflix)
Travelers (Netflix)
Dark (Netflix) (Excellent German series, subtitles)
Glitch (Netflix)
Wind River (Netflix)
The Frankenstein Chronicles (Netflix)
The OA (Netflix)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (Netflix)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Netflix)
Tales of Irish Castles (Netflix)
Good Behavior (TNT, but available on HULU)
Hap and Leonard (Amazon Prime)
Big Little Lies (HBO)
Goliath (Amazon Prime) *
Being Human (British version)
Larkrise to Candleford (Amazon Prime) *
The Last Kingdom (Netflix)

SHAMEFUL INDULGENCES?
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Death Proof
Fright Night (w/Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, David Tennant)
SCREAM (all four)
ALIEN (all four)


A few favorite trailers.  If the sound isn't loud enough, hover over the video and click on YouTube to open a new tab and turn it up.

Impromptu

The Secret of Roan Inish

Cold Comfort Farm

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

Burn After Reading

(Language)

Henry V
The Tennis Ball Speech
(A good lesson on how to respond when you've been mocked.)

Temple Grandin

CHEF

Miranda
There's a rash on my breast.

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window
and Disappeared

Florence Foster Jenkins

MERU
The Shark's Fin

(exquisite documentary - all live footage via camera & GoPro)
Good article: http://mentalfloss.com/article/67362/9-facts-about-climbing-mount-meru-and-making-documentary-out-it

Uncertain

(documentary)

My tribute to The Secret Life of Bees

Sam & Ruby, Heaven's My Home

Almost forgot about this blog page.  Guess I should post something. Finnegan!

THIS!

Click the image to go to the recipe.

Almost the 4th of July!

Into my back yard ~

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

A card from my sister, Renee ~

We laugh all the time!
(Many years until we look like this!)