FOUR MINUTES

FOUR MINUTES

Four Minutes (Vier Minuten) is about an elderly piano teacher who trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary. Wait, don't go!!! I know what you’re thinking... It’s Dangerous Minds meets Freedom Writers meets (insert names of any of the dozen other movies where troubled youth are helped by a teach/mentor and everything turns out good in the end). This isn't that though...

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NO DIRECTION HOME (2005)

NO DIRECTION HOME (2005)

For my birthday back over a decade ago one of my best friends gave me the No Direction Home dvd (remember DVDs?). I was very happy when I got it and added it to my DVD collection right away. However, as anyone with a large movie collection can tell you, it’s very easy for movies to get lost in there. And that is what happened with this one. But, about a year later, it popped its head out from the crowded shelf and caught my eye and so it was time to finally watch it.

No Direction Home is a Martin Scorsese directed documentary about the life and career of Bob Dylan. And I can say that after having watched the film back all those years ago I felt like I knew a whole lot more about Dylan while at the same time still don't knowing him at all. And I think that is the point.

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