1963— Tom Jones( Blind date with my future college boyfriend, hereinafter referred to as“ My True Love,” Portland, Oregon.)
Director: Tony Richardson; Actors: George Devine, Rachel Kempson, Angela Baddeley, Albert Finney
1967— Cool Hand Luke( Watched with“ My True Love,” our favorite movie of all time, Salem, Oregon.)
Director: Stuart Rosenberg; Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J. D. Cannon
1969— Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid( First film I watched with my husband, Bloomington, Indiana.)
Director: George Roy Hill; Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
1973— Don’ t Look Now( Watched film with my husband, scariest movie ever!!! Copenhagen, Denmark.)
Director: Nicolas Roeg; Actors: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason
1985— Santa Claus: The Movie( Viewed with my family, first film for my six-year-old son, Stade, Germany.)
Director: Jeannot Szwarc; Actors: Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston
1993— Schindler’ s List( Saw with my son, interested in watching actress Bettina Kupfer’ s great performance as Regina Perlman. Kupfer’ s daughter had been in my third grade class at the International School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.)
Director: Steven Spielberg; Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
1994— Forrest Gump( Watched with my family, we loved it, as corny as it was, Salem, Oregon.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis; Actors: Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Robin Wright
2011— Friend with Benefits( First film I reviewed for AWCH website / KinoCritics. First of almost 100 films I have since reviewed, sitting solo, in a theater surrounded by other journalists. Hamburg, Germany.)
Director: Will Gluck; Actors: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson
2012— Searching for Sugar Man( Viewed it twice, first at Traverse City Film Festival then Filmfest Hamburg: one film, two festivals! Traverse City, Michigan, Hamburg, Germany.)
Director: Malik Bendjelloul. Actors: Stephen“ Sugar” Segerman, Dennis Coffey, Mike Theodore
2018— Cat Days( Saw film premier at the Berlinale, with family and friends. Short animated film by my son which received numerous accolades, nineteen wins, and three nominations, Berlin, Germany.)
Director: Jon Frickey; Actors: Kanon Yamamoto, Yûsuke Yamazaki, Iroha Sato
2021— Cow( First film I watched in a theater after COVID-19 pandemic. A close-up portrait of Luma, and the horrific conditions of dairy cows. Viewed at Filmfest Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.)
Director: Andrea Arnold; Actors: Lin Gallagher, Luma the cow, and an entire herd of Holstein Friesian cows
2024— A Complete Unknown( First film I saw with“ My True Love” after getting back together with him after more than sixty years apart, Charlotte, North Carolina.)
Director: James Mangold; Actors: Timothée Chalamet, Joe Tippett, Edward Norton
2025— Nuremberg( Most recent film I saw, and highly recommend, with“ My True Love,” Charlotte, North Carolina.)
Director: James Vanderbilt; Actors: Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Rami Malek
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