The Theory of Everything

This movie is about Stephen Hawking and his his amazing wife Jane Wilde.  I really enjoyed it.

Recommended Video - Not Another Happy Ending

Recommended Video - A Little Bit of Heaven

Recommended Video: Back in Time for the Weekend

Not so long ago I recommended Back in Time for Dinner.  Now the BBC has another series called Back in Time for the Weekend.   The BBC site says:  For one summer the Ashby Hawkins family give up their 21st-century technology and travel back in time to discover the radical transformation of our leisure time since 1950.

 I can't find a decent copy on YouTube but I found this site.

Back in Time for the Weekend


Here is a review.  It was harder to be female in the 50's.

The BBC remodeled the house for each decade:

  "Every era we completely redecorated their house, even putting in extra walls, doors, garden fences and a shed. Our art department repainted, wallpapered, carpeted and re-furnished their house, often in just three days, whilst the family were living in a rented house nearby. The family moved out of their house before filming began for the 50s and before every decade, only saw the changes as they stepped through the door on the first day of filming for each episode."

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Reommended Video Series.... Halt & Catch Fire

Recommended video ... Ashby

Recommended Video... "Back in Time for Dinner"

I found this British series:  "One British family embarks on an extraordinary time-traveling adventure to discover how a post-war revolutions in the food we eat has transformed the way we live."

It starts in 1950.  England was still on food rationing through much of the fifties.   There is an episode from each decade.  It's really interesting.

There is also a series with the same family call Back in Time for Christmas, covering the 40's, 50's and 60's.

The Shipping News

Available on Amazon Prime.

Hank and Asha

I watched this movie on Amazon Prime but I am sure you can find it lots of places.

The Visitor

Bottle Shock

We both watched this one and loved it.

What's Cooking

Still quilting and watching videos.  Here is one I really liked.  It's called What's Cooking.

Recommended videos

Still quilting and watching videos.  I watched these on Amazon Prime.  You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find the good ones....

Oranges and Sunshine is based on a sad but true story and is very well done.

Learning to Drive

Recommended videos

I like to watch videos while I hand quilt.  Here are three I really liked.  I watched them on Amazon Prime, but I am sure they are available other places as well.

Like Sunday, Like Rain

The End of the Tour

Paper Planes

Portland Documentary

I love a good documentary and I am pretty excited about this one.  I traded some email with the maker of the documentary, about our love of Portland and our distress over what is going on.  She lifted my spirit when she said this:  

Many people care about place here. And so long as we/they/me/you continue to do so, we can succeed. We'll get a little banged up in the process, but it will be worth it. We're Portland after all!

Keep fighting the good fight. I promise not to give up, so long as you don't! :-)

Stay passionate. It's what built this place and it'll be the last thing standing in the end! :-)

I cried and I hardly EVER cry.  And I promise.

Here is the description of the documentary from their website:

Portland, Inc. is a feature length documentary about a small west coast city, surprised by sudden growth and change. In the early 60’s, Portland found its sleepy self in the thoughtful hands of brilliant renegades who thought differently about politics, planning, work and lifestyle.

The difference between what we have today and what was intended lies within the concept of livability. During the era of the Downtown Plan, our city was designed with attention given to what it meant to live first and work second. Now that the Portland lifestyle has transformed into a brand, it has become a hot commodity; a consumable good on the brink of becoming a place where livability is being squeezed from its original intention.

Portland is often compared to its northern and southern neighbors, Seattle and San Francisco. Neighborhoods in Portland are being flipped and its people pushed out. Now the fastest growing city by comparison, will Portland be forced to disown its roots as it rapidly changes to meet the needs of growth?

Portland, Inc. explores the charm of the past to extract what worked in an effort to reinvent the future of our renowned livable city. While we take stock at what's happening to our community now, we hope to answer: Is the future that's being designed for us good enough? For more information please contact Writer/Director Kristen Kingsbury at

pi@patternintegrity.com

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Wartime Kitchen and Garden

The BBC did a series about how people in England cooked and gardened and lived during World War II.   It's a well done piece.  It's hard to find but it pops up from time to time on YouTube and it is there right now.  I can't recommend it enough.  It's great watching for quilting on a dark day.

Wartime Kitchen Series

The Queen of Versailles

I have another documentary to recommend.  It's called the Queen of Versailles.

The Economist called it "an uncomfortably intimate glimpse of a couple’s struggle with a harsh new reality," concluding that "the film’s great achievement is that it invites both compassion and Schadenfreude. What could have been merely a silly send-up manages to be a meditation on marriage and a metaphor for the fragility of fortunes, big and small.

Indian Doctor Series

The dark time of winter is a great time for videos and I found a series called Indian Doctor that is very good.  We've been watching it on Amazon instant video.

Ingredients: another great documentary

This one is about food.  I watched it on Amazon but it is around other places as well.