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By Jim Gordon and Leeta Liepins

Published 12:13 PDT, Fri October 11, 2024

Spotlight on more great viewing

THE VIEW #1 – LEE

The story of Lee Miller, the model turned war correspondent and photographer, has been long overdue, and we congratulate award-winning cinematographer (and first time feature film director), Ellen Kura, for bringing this force of nature to the big screen. Oscar winner, Kate Winslet, gives a deep and powerful performance in the title role, portraying Miller as someone who lived life to its fullest. The film begins in the south of France just before the start of WWII, as Miller and her friends (all wealthy artists, business people) are enjoying time together, not realizing the horrors of what is coming. When war does come, Miller is able to secure a job with British Vogue, photographing the front lines, something almost unheard of for a woman at the time. The deeper she gets in this global conflict, the more horror she sees – and photographs – and her images would become some of the 20 century’s most indelible images. Lee is also stacked with a superb supporting cast including Oscar winner, Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgard and, in a different role for him, comedian Andy Samberg. LEE is in theatres now.

THE VIEW #2 – My Old Ass

In her screen debut, Maisy Stella plays 18 year old, free-spirited, Elliot, who celebrates her birthday by indulging in a mushroom trip with friends. It’s on this “trip”, she meets the 39 year old Elliot, played by the always interesting, Aubrey Plaza. This leads to the question, what would you tell your younger self? Though the older Elliot is hesitant to say anything specific that might cause any change in their collective life journey, she does her best to offer advice that only someone looking back could offer: love your parents and your brothers more, appreciate this youthful part of your life more. But the older Elliot does have one ominous warning to her younger self: stay away from a guy named Chad. Older Elliot won’t say why, but it’s not long before the younger Elliot meets Chad, who is adorably quirky and kind. My Old Ass, which was filmed in the picturesque Muskoka region of Ontario, is a sweet, funny, coming of age film that goes deeper than most movies of this kind. And, without giving anything away, later in the film, it also has one of the most bittersweet, tender moments that we have ever seen in film. My Old Ass is in theatres now.

THE VIEW #3 – Goebbels and the Fuhrer

They were among the worst and most despicable human beings of the 20 century. From their National Socialist Party’s rise to power in 1933 Germany, until their total defeat and deaths in 1945, Adolf Hitler and his “Minister of Propaganda“, Joseph Goebbels, pushed the world to the brink of destruction. Now comes a film that continues to examine that period in history and the relationship between these two men during the last seven years of the their lives. Goebbels and the Fuhrer begins when Hitler is at the height of his power and Goebbels is creating what would become the first use of mass propaganda to create an almost fever-like hysteria for their leader, the war and world domination. It would also point a large and focused blaming finger at Germany’s Jewish citizens with, among many tactics, a series of despicable anti-Semitic films. Goebbels and the Fuhrer is a fascinating and powerful film, written and directed by award-winning German writer, director and historian, Joachim A. Lang. It is available for home viewing.

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