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 The Elderly in the Movies
- About Schmidt (2002)
- Directed by Alexander Payne. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Len Cariou, Howard Hesseman, Kathy Bates, June Squibb, Matt Winston, Harry Groener, Connie Ray, Phil Reeves, James Michael Connor.
Warren Schmidt is a man at the crossroads of his life; retired and restless. He takes to the road to try and save his estranged daughter from marrying a loser but what he really embarks on is a journey of self discovery. Based on the novel by Louis Begley. Special features: Deleted scenes (31 min.); Trailers (8 min.); Woodmen Tower sequences [short films] (14 min.) 125 min. DVD X1772
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- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Directed by Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane, Edward Everett Horton. An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts, Abby and Martha, have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar. 120 min. DVD 2205 (b&w); vhs 999:747 (colorized)
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- The Angel Levine (1970)
- Directed by Jan Kadar. Cast: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster. A touching, humorous film about Morris Mishkin, an elderly Jew whose life experiences have left him an embittered agnostic. Into Mishkin's life floats Alexander Levine, a black Jewish angel, who must convince the old man that life has value else Levine will never earn his wings. 106 min. vhs 999:2625
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- Assisted Living (2002)
- Directed by Elliot Greenebaum. Cast: Michael Bonsignore, Maggie Wise Riley, Gail Benedict, Nanci Jo Boone, Clint Vaught, Jose Albovias, Elsie Albright, Malorie Boone. Todd is a pot-smoking janitor at a nursing home who takes pleasure in toying with the senile residents. But when one of the residents mistakes him for her son, he finds himself becoming emotionally attached to his work for the first time. Shot in an actual nursing home, using real residents as many of the actors with mixed footage from a documentary that was made at the facility, lends the film a realistic fly-on-the-wall quality. 75 min. DVD 5127
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- Chang, Robert. "Assisted Living." Disability Studies Quarterly Summer 2005, Volume 25, No. 3
- "Movie tells us 'assisted living' really means 'don't get old'." Modern Healthcare 34.48 (Nov 29, 2004): 40. UC users only
- Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud) (Denmark, 1987)
- Directed by Gabriel Axel. Cast: Stephane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Brigitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean Philippe Lafant, Bibi Andersson, Henning Kristiansen Dee. On the desolate coast of Denmark, two elderly, religious women take in a young woman to be their housekeepr and cook, not knowing she is a superb French chef. When the chef, Babette, wins a large sum of money, she decides to spend it all creating a magnificent meal for the simple villagers. Based on a story by Isak Dineson. In Danish and French, with English subtitles. 102 min. DVD 5512; vhs 999:1468
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- de Arellano, Annette B. Rami; Nevins, Andrea. "Multicultural images of aging: Four international films." Gerontologist, Jun92, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p431, 2p UC users only
- The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama Bushiko) (Japan, 1982)
- Director: Shohei Imamura. A century ago, inhabitants from a remote mountian village lived in constant fear of starvation. Their lives were cruel, horrible, and at best, hopeless. To survive, a number of ruthless laws were passed. One of the most brutal-taking the elderly to the distant peak of Narayama to die. 129 min. DVD 9868; vhs 999:858
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- Hung, Lee Wood. "Natural culturalism in Narayamabushi-ko (The ballad of Narayama): a study of Shohei Imamura's thematic concerns." In: How East Asian films are reshaping national identities : essays on the cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong Edited by Andrew David Jackson, Michael Gibb, and Dave White ; with a foreword by Hyangjin Lee. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006. (MAIN: PN1995.9.N353 H69 2006)
- Central Station (Central do Brasil) (1998)
- Directed by Walter Salles. Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pera, Vinícius de Oliveira. When a young Brazilian boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. Although they initially distrust each other, the two form an uncommon bond as they venture from the bustling city to Brazil's barren and remote northeast region in search of the boy's father. 106 min.DVD 8547; vhs 999:2446
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- Kaufman, Anthony. "Sentimental journey as national allegory: an interview with Walter Salles."
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- El Cochecita (Spain, 1960)
- Directed by Marco Ferreri. A black comedy about an old man who wants a motorized bicycle so he can ride through town with his crippled friends. When his family refuses to buy him a bike as well he methodically poisons his family members one by one, using their tiny legacies to finance his purchase. Strange but true: the audience's sympathy is with the elder gent in this study of aging, loneliness, neglect and rebellion. 90 min. vhs 999:2099
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- Cocoon (1985)
- Directed by Ron Howard. Cast: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch.
When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth. Special features: Commentary by director Ron Howard; Behind-the-scenes featurette; Ron Howard profile; underwater training; actors; Creating Antareans; TV spots; theatrical teaser; scene selection. Contents: Side A. Widescreen presentation ; Commentary by Ron Howard ; "Behind the scenes" featurette ; "Creating Antareans" featurette -- Side B. Full screen presentation ; Commentary by Ron Howard. 117 min. DVD X1771
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- Cocoon: The Return (1988)
- Directed by Daniel Petrie. Cast: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver, Maureen Stapleton, Elaine Stritch, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Tahnee Welch.
In this charming, funny and very moving sequel to the hit film "Cocoon", the adventurous old-timers who left Earth for the alien utopia Antarea, return on a rescue mission. Although accustomed to their new peaceful, problem-free planet, they realize the joys they left behind after they are reunited with their stunned families. Yet for all their happiness, they must once again confront the human frailties of their past. 116 min. DVD X1771
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- Critical Care (1999)
- Directed by Sidney Lumet. Cast: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Anne Bancroft, Albert Brooks, Margo Martindale, Jeffrey Wright, Wallace Shawn, Philip Bosco. Dr. Werner Ernst, an overworked intern, only wants what is best for his elderly, comatose patient -- until he falls for the ailing man's beautiful daughter who has ten million reasons to let her father "die with dignity," while her deeply religious sister has her own motives for keeping him alive. Caught between passion and duty, Werner descends into a moral mine field where he struggles with the physician's god-like powers of life and death. 109 min. DVD 314
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- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- Directed by David Fincher. Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemying, Elias Koteas, Tilda Swinton. Benjamin Button was a not-so-ordinary man who began his life under unusual circumstances. Born in his eighties, and unable to stop time, he continued to age backwards. His life story is detailed from the end of World War I in 1918 and into the 21st century, when he discovered a love that lasted beyond time. Based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Special features: Disc 2: The Supplements : Interviews with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett ; Audio commentary featuring director David Fincher; Footage revealing the innovative techniques behind the visual effects and makeup; Step-by-step examination of the motion-capture process aging Brad Pitt; In-depth exploration of David Fincher's creative process on the set; Featurettes on the film's storyboards, costumes, and art direction; Still galleries, including costume designs and candid behind-the-scenes production photos. 165 min. DVD X1876
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- Del Rosa - al Amarillo (Spain, 1963)
- Director, Manuel Summers. A parallel love story about two youths, Guillermo and Margarita and an elderly couple, Valentin and Joséfa. In the first story Guillermo falls for an older girl of 14 but is unable to win her affection. In the second story two residents of an old folks home for the poor express their love through letters to each other. In Spanish without subtitles. 88 min. vhs 999:3539
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- Don Quixote
- In Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, Sancho Panza, to reform the world and revive the age of chivalry, choosing a slut to be his noble lady Dulcinea. He mistakes inns for castles, a play about chivalry for the real thing, flocks of sheep for armies, convicts for wronged prisoners, and windmills for giants. For various filmed versions of Don Quixote, SEE Literary Adaptations
- The Dragon Painter (1919)
- Director, William Worthington. Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil, Toyo Fujita.
Hayakawa plays Tatsu, a wild youth living in the mountain forests of Japan, spending all his time painting. Although Tatsu creates beautiful art, local villagers believe that he is insane, as he claims that he has a beloved princess fiancee who has been turned into a dragon. When an renowned-but-aging artist hears of the young hermit's talent, Tatsu is brought to civilization with the hope that he will both become the student of the old artist and marry the elderly man's daughter to continue the family lineage and traditions. Special features: 1921 comedy short, Screen snapshots with Sessue Hayakawa, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Charles Murray ; stills gallery of illustrations from original novel ; stills gallery of Herbert G. Ponting's photos of turn-of-the century Japan ; stills gallery of archival photos and correspondence notes of Hayakawa and Aoki ; gallery of promotional materials from the original production. 53 min. DVD 9553
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- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Directed by Bruce Beresford. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti Lupone, Esther Rolle. Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years. 99 min. DVD 5147
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- Gallardo, Pere. "Ageing Mechanisms: The Body/Machine Metaphor in David Lynch's The Straight Story and Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy." In: The aesthetics of ageing : critical approaches to literary representations of the ageing process Lleida, Catalunya, Spain : Dept. of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, 2002. [UC Davis PR9080.5 .A37 2002; No UCB holdings]
- Winchell, Mark Royden. "That's What Friends are For: Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy." In: God, man, and Hollywood : politically incorrect cinema from "The birth of a nation" to "The Passion of the Christ" Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2008.
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- Facing Windows (La Finestra di Fronte) (Italy / UK / Turkey / Portugal, 2003)
- Directed by Ferzan Özpetek. Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra Yilmaz, Massimo Poggio. Giovanna is a young working-class wife and mother, who has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers the stranger's secrets, it unlocks a freedom within her heart she never expected; a freedom that will lead her to the arms of a neighbor she secretly adores, and to fulfillment her husband and family cannot provide. Non-US format DVD. 106 min. DVD 3021
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- Geoffrey Macnab. "Facing Window." "Facing Windows." Sight & Sound, Oct2005, Vol. 15 Issue 10, p96-97, 2p
- Lally, Kevin. "Facing Windows." Film Journal International, Jun2004, Vol. 107 Issue 6, p49-50, 2p UC users only
- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
- Director, Jon Avnet. Cast: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson. A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results. "A story told in flashback about lasting female friendship and the specifically unusual food the main characters serve while running a café together. A slice of southern culture, with plenty of heartbreak and cultural oddities, that revolves around the preparation, serving, and consumption of food. Based on the novel by Flagg and the Ironside Café in Birmingham, Alabama, where fried green tomatoes are a menu staple and the secret, apparently, "is in the sauce."" [from Gastronomica: Food in Film] 137 min. DVD 1711
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- Grumpy Old Men (1993)
- Directed by Donald Petrie. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Kevin Pollak, Ossie Davis, Daryl Hannah, Burgess Meredith, Buck Henry.
Neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street. 104 min. DVD X1774
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- Grumpier Old Men (1995)
- Directed by Howard Deutch. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Kevin Pollak, Daryl Hannah. Grumpy Old Men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer (Sophia Loren) plans to change the town's bait shop into a ristorante. 101 min. DVD X1774
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- Harold and Maude(1971)
- Directed by Hal Ashby. Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Ellen Geer. A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and funerals, who has an affair and a series of adventures with an eccentric and independent 80-year-old woman. 91 min. DVD 9060
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- How the Old Woman Caught the Omnibus (aka Stop That Bus!)(UK, 1903)
- Directed by Percy Stow. "An elderly woman is waiting to catch an omnibus. As she sees it approaching, she stands in the road and waves her umbrella to get the driver's attention. When she realizes that he is not going to stop, she pulls on the horses' reins to try to stop the vehicle. This initiates a heated battle of wills between her and the occupants of the omnibus." [IMDB] 2 min. Video/C 7154
- Hyenas (Hyènes) (Senegal, 1992)
- Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety. An old woman who has become rich returns to create all kinds of trouble. Based on "Der Besuch der alten Dame" by Friedrich Durrenmatt. In French with English subtitles. 113 min. DVD 3572; vhs 999:1152
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- I Can't Sleep (J'ai pas sommeil) (1994)
- Director, Claire Denis. Cast: Katerina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont. A "granny killer" is loose in Paris, inciting fear and havoc amongst its residents. Based on the true story of Thierry Paulin, who with his male lover murdered over 20 elderly women in Paris in the 1980s, this is an eerily atmospheric portrait of urban alienation and arbitrary violence. 115 min. DVD X1120; vhs 999:3268
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- Harry and Tonto (1974)
- Directed by Paul Mazursky. Cast: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman, Chief Dan George.
Comedy about a man evicted from his apartment who decides to take his cat, Tonto, and head cross country to live with one of his children. He has many 'encounters' with an assortment of people he meets on the way. 115 min. vhs 999:3828
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- I Live In Fear (Ikimono no kiroku) (Japan, 1955)
- Director: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Mifune Toshiro, Miyoshi Eiko, Shimura Takashi, Chiaki Minoru.
An elderly and wealthy industrialist is driven to madness over fears of a nuclear attack. In a futile attempt to save his family he pressures them to leave Japan and move to the rain forest in Brazil where he believes they will be safe. His family, complacent and cynical, is outraged and moves to have him declared insane.
103 min. DVD 9127
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- I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
- Director, Herb Gardner. Cast: Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson, Martha Plimpton. Eighty-one year old Nat Moyer is a compulsive and fanciful talker, a feisty philosopher, and a troublemaker given to assuming personalities. His daily companion on a bench in New York's Central Park is Midge Carter, a half-blind apartment house superintendent. Midge's approach to life is realistic
and down-to-earth, making him the perfect foil for Nat. With vaudevillian flair, these appealing oldsters outrageously take on the world and its multiple threats--drug dealers and muggers, enlightened children, forced retirement, and the spector of the old folks' home. 137 min. vhs 999:3518
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- King Lear
- For various filmed version of Shakespeare's King Lear, SEE Shakespeare Videography
- Koza(Turkey, 1995)
- Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Due to some painful experiences of their past, an old couple at their seventies live separately. One day they come together again. But the meeting which they hope will heal the lingering pain doesn't give the expected results. 20 min. Included on DVD 3663
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- The Lady Killers (2004)
- Directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. Cast: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst. Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and Dorr decides the best solution is to silence her permanently. After, all how hard can that be? 104 min. DVD 3333
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- The Ladykillers (UK, 1955)
- Director, Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, Danny Green.
Professor Marcus and his gang of vicious bank robbers rent a room from an elderly widow. When she begins to meddle in their 'perfect crime', the crooks decide she must be killed ... but can they? 91 min. DVD 8124
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- The Little Coach (El Cochecito)(Spain, 1960)
- Directed by Marco Ferreri. Cast: Jose Isbert, Jose A. Lepe, Maria Luise Ponte, Pedro Porcel, Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez.
A black comedy about an old man who wants a motorized bicycle so he can ride through town with his crippled friends. When his family refuses to buy him a bike as well he methodically poisons his family members one by one, using their tiny legacies to finance his purchase. Strange but true: the audience's sympathy is with the elder gent in this study of aging, loneliness, neglect and rebellion. Based on the novel: El cochecito / Rafael Azcona. 90 min. vhs 999:2099
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- Madadayo (Japan, 1992)
- Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Set in postwar Japan, the film follows the last two decades in the life of Hyakken Uchida, a free spirited writer and teacher, highlighted by his relationship with his students who venerate him in his old age. 134 min. DVD 622
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- Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
- Director, Leo McCarey. Cast: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon.
When Ma and Pa Cooper's house goes into foreclosure, none of their five grown children will take them in as a couple. Ma goes to live with George and Pa to Cora in another state. When the couple realize that their children are not intent on getting them back together, they must decide how to remedy the situation. Based on the novel The years are so long by Josephine Lawrence and a play by Helen and Nolan Leary.
Special features: video introduction by film historian Bernard Eisenschitz ; photo gallery. 91 min. DVD X1838
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- El milagro de P. Tinto (Spain, 1998)
- Directed by Javier Fesser. Cast: Luis Ciges, Pablo Pinedo, Silvia Casanova, Emilio Gavira, Javier Aller, Janfri Topera, Carlos Soto, Tomas Saez, Geman Montaner.
An elderly man longs for a suitable heir to the Pinto family enterprise, a communion wafer factory, and his struggle to keep its contract with the Vatican ... unless he can make more money selling pizza and chicken. 105 min. DVD 9830
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- The Mr. Magoo Show.(TV show)
- Voices: Jim Backus, Dick Beals, Paul Frees. Animated television series featuring the adventures of a near-sighted old man, Mr. Magoo. Show 1: Military Magoo ; Base on bawls ; Thin skinned divers ; Mother's little helper ; Day at the beach -- Show 2: Ten strike Magoo ; Robinson Crusoe Magoo ; Magoo's Caesar solid ; This is the life ; Go West Magoo -- Show 3: Who's lion ; Soft shoe Magoo ; Fox pass ; Night club Magoo ; Mis-guided missile -- Show 4: Insomniac Magoo ; Beatnik Magoo ; Magoo's dog ; Fish 'n tricks ; Campaigner Magoo -- Show 5: Dangerous Dan Magoo ; Shotgun Magoo ; Lady in black ; Magoo's buggy ; Three's a crowd -- Show 6: Riding Hood Magoo ; Indoor outing ; Record breakers ; Magoo's jackpot ; Magoo's bear -- Show 7: High & flighty ; S'no ball Magoo ; South Pacific potluck ; Masquerader Magoo ; Fixit Magoo.
Originally broadcast on television during the 1960s. DVD 8173
- My Failing Eyesight (Rabun)(Maylasia, 2004)
- Directed by Yasmin Ahmad. Cast: A. Rajoli, Irwan Iskandar, Kartina Aziz, Noor Khiriah, Hafiz Ibrahim. An elderly Mayalan couple move out of the city to a village, but this exuberant and affectionate pair find that life in the countryside isn't all that pleasant after all, forcing them to reassess their perceptions of both the country, and the city. 90 min. vhs 999:3622
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- Odd Obsession (Kagi) (Japan, 1960)
- Directed by Kon Ichikawa. A blend of comic satire and drama, the film follows an elderly man's attempts to satisfy his younger wife. When "potency" injections fail, Mr. Kenmochi incites his own jealousy by orchestrating an affair between his wife and his doctor, who happens to be his daughter's fiance. 96 min. vhs 999:3512
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- Allyn, John. Kon Ichikawa : a guide to references and resources Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1985. (Main (Gardner) Stacks; PFA: PN1998.A3 I332 1985)
- Kon Ichikawa / edited by James Quandt. Toronto : Cinematheque Ontario, c2001. (Main (Gardner) Stacks; PFA: PN1998.3.I332 K66 2001)
- Mellen, Joan. "Kon Ichikawa." In: Voices from the Japanese cinema
New York : Liveright, [1975] (Main; Moffitt; PFA: PN1998.A2 .M37 1975)
- Young, Colin. "Odd Obsession." Film Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Winter, 1961-1962), pp. 53-54UC users only
- The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
- Director, John Sturges. Cast: Cast: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver. An aging Cuban fisherman, alone in a small skiff, catches a magnificent marlin and must defy the sea, marauding sharks, and his own flagging strength to bring his great catch home. Based on the book by Ernest Hemingway. 92 min. vhs 999:3257
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- The Old Woman's Step (No Passo da Véia) (Brazil, 2002)
- Directed by Jane Malaquias. "A celebration of life and family. An old woman on Brasil's seacoast has raised a chicken with care and attention. She walks all the way to town to sell it. She finds a buyer after several failures. Then she goes to a drug store to buy her grandson, who's a muscular hard-working and unmarried fisherman, a birthday present. The present she chooses, her slow walk home, his arrival from a day on the sea, and the giving of the gift complete the story. He showers and she sings." [IMDB] 15 min. DVD X1810
- On Golden Pond (1981)
- Director, Mark Rydell.. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau, Christopher Rydell, Troy Garity. Based on the play by Ernest Thompson. Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging. 109 min. DVD X788
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- Persistence
- Directed, produced and written by James J. Cullinane. Henry is determined to keep a very important date: All this wheelchair-bound rebel must do is elude the nursing home's vigilant warden. 10 min. DVD 6344
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- The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na Korze) (Czechoslovakia, 1965)
- Directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. Cast: Jozef Kroner, Ida Kaminska, Hana Slivkova. In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis. 128 min. DVD 5514; vhs 999:864
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- Saperstein, Jeffrey. "'All men are Jews': tragic transcendence in Kadar's The shop on Main Street. Literature/Film Quarterly; Vol.XIX nr.4 (Oct 1991); p.247-251
- The Storekeeper(South Africa, 1998)
- Directed by Gavin Hood. An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store, somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries, which culminate in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands - with tragic consequences. 22 min. DVD 5803
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- The Straight Story (1999)
- Directed by David Lynch. Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton.
Based on the true story of 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis. 112 min. DVD X1773
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- Gallardo, Pere. "Ageing Mechanisms: The Body/Machine Metaphor in David Lynch's The Straight Story and Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy." In: The aesthetics of ageing : critical approaches to literary representations of the ageing process Lleida, Catalunya, Spain : Dept. of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, 2002. [UC Davis PR9080.5 .A37 2002; No UCB holdings]
- Strangers in Good Company(Canada, 1990)
- Directed by Cynthia Scott. A drama concerning seven elderly women who band together for survival when their bus breaks down in rural Quebec. 21 min. Video/C 4664
- de Arellano, Annette B. Rami; Nevins, Andrea. "Multicultural images of aging: Four international films." Gerontologist, Jun92, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p431, 2p UC users only
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim. A harsh look at Hollywood in which an aging silent-movie queen makes a tragic attempt to return to stardom. 110 min. DVD 1476;l vhs 999:182
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- Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (Japan, 1953)
- Director, Yasujiro Ozu. A deceptively simple tale of an elderly couple who journey to Tokyo, where they are received less than enthusiastically by their grown-up children; then generational conflicts are stilled--momentarily--by death. 134 min. DVD 2050; vhs 999:409
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- The Trade-ins(TV show)
- An installment of the television program Twilight Zone (episode 96, April 20, 1962). Director, Elliot Silverstein. An elderly couple hopes to transplant their personalities into youthful artificial bodies but they can only afford one body. DVD 2608
- True Story(2006)
- Directed by Stephanie J. Via. In this short film an elderly woman remembers a tragic childhood moment. 3 min. DVD 7163
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- The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant) (France, 1967)
- Directed by Claude Berri. Cast: Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Preboist, Luce Fabiole, Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Jacqueline Rouillard, Marco Perrin, Aline Bertrand, Sylvine Delannoy, Zorica Lozic, Elisabeth Rey, Didier Perret, and featuring the children of Biviers and St.-Vincent-de-Mercuze.
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation. Forced to hide his identity, eight-year-old Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa, who improbably becomes his friend and confidant. Special features: "Le poulet" (1962), director Claude Berri's Oscar-winning short film; new video interviews with Berri and actor Alain Cohen; interviews from 1967 with Berri and Michel Simon; excerpt from "The Jewish children of occupied France," a 1975 French talk-show segment featuring Berri and the woman who helped secure his family's safety during World War II; original theatrical trailer; plus a booklet featuring a new essay by critic David Sterritt, an appreciation of the film by Francois Truffaut, and excerpts from Berri's memoir. 87 min. DVD 8264
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- Umberto D. (Italy, 1952)
- Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Cast: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea, Memmo Carotenuto. The film shows postwar renaissance in Italy after a period of chaotic economic conditions and the emergence of a new spirit of "neorealism". Umberto D., an elderly man, lives alone on a small pension, and tries to maintain his dignity and hold onto his dog, the only thing in the world that he loves and that loves him back. 89 min. DVD 1800; vhs 999:188
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- United We Stand (De beste går først) (Norway, 2002)
- Directed by Hans Petter Moland. "Nine octogenarian leftists arrive at the trail head for their annual trek through the woods, rucksacks on their backs. They sing songs of solidarity as they walk, single file, through the forest. Well into the wild, they hear shouts. They investigate and find a young woman mired in a bog. They find a solid patch of ground leading toward her and let up a rescue line: they pull her from the mud, and with hardly a word of thanks, she resumes her hike. The men take in her youth and the beauty of nature. They pause. They sing. As the sun sinks slowly on the horizon, it is not alone." [IMDB] 9 min. DVD X1810
- A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo Con Unas Alas Enormes) (Spain / Cuba /Italy, 1988)
- Directed by Fernando Birri. Amid the debris of a Columbian cyclone lands a man whose seemingly miraculous anatomy attracts the curious and devout from around the world. Silent and disheveled, this fantastical"creature" is housed in a chicken coop as onlookers wait for his heavenly message which turns out to be a very mixed blessing. Based on a story by Gabriel García Márquez. 90 min. vhs 999:488
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- What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911)
- Directed by D.W. Griffith. Cast: W. Chrystie Miller, Claire McDowell, George Nichols. An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate. 89 min. vhs 999:3392
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- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- Directed by Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Marjorie Bennett, Anna Lee. An aging ex-vaudeville child star initiates a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled sister, a former movie-queen of the 1930's. 132 min. DVD 4072
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- Aldrich, Robert. Robert Aldrich : interviews Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
(GRDS: PN1998.3.A44 A5 2004; MAIN: PN1998.3.A44 A5 2004)
- Arnold, Edwin T. The films and career of Robert Aldrich University of Tennessee Press, c1986.
(MAIN: PN1998.A3 A559271 1986; MOFF: PN1998.A3 A55927 1986)
- Chivers, Sally. "Baby Jane Grew Up: The Dramatic Intersection of Age with Disability." Canadian Review of American Studies, 2006, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p211-227, 17p
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- Russell, Lorena. "Queering Consumption and Production in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" In: Horror film : creating and marketing fear / edited by Steffen Hantke. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H674 2004)
- Williams, Tony. Body and soul : the cinematic vision of Robert Aldrich Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
(MAIN: PN1998.3.A44 W55 2004)
- When Angels Fall (Gdy spadaja anioly) (Poland, 1959)
- Directed by Roman Polanski. A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pigeons on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out -- of illness, assignation, and routine -- a few tips her only acknowledgment. The sound of footsteps on the floor above her brings a reverie of her youth, when she was a beauty, the day a platoon of soldiers marched into her valley. As the day in the basement proceeds, she completes a set of memories that takes her from passion to maternal love to rejection and tragedy. Could there be more awaiting her on this day of remembering the fruit of her womb? [IMDB] 21 min. DVD 1935 disc 2
- Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) (1957)
- Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand. A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. 93 min. DVD 1065; vhs 999:189
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- Cohen-Shalev, Amir. "The effect of aging in dramatic realization of old age: The example of Ingmar Bergman." Gerontologist, Dec92, Vol. 32 Issue 6, p739, 5p UC users only
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