A Few Things I Love About Movies

Vivid, imaginative storytelling offering flights of fancy.

Classic love stories.

And wildly unconventional love stories.

Fabulous "chick flicks."

A movie to cry over with your girl friends.

Anything by Mike Leigh

And other great British movies.

Dysfunctional families who have moments of connection, love, and joy.

Films that feel so real I feel like a voyeur.

Wonderful coming of age stories.

Films that show human evil and stupidity but also show us real lives with love and joy.

Morally ambiguous characters such as a sociopath who is capable of love.

Thrillers in which the dynamics among the characters keep changing.

Wonderfully horrifying, creepy images I can never forget.

Inspiring stories from history.

Visiting other countries.

A movie that challenges my perception of reality.

Being surprised by falling in love with something I didn't expect to. Futuristic cowboys in outer space? Really? Yet this turned out to be among my all time movies and T.V. series. Who knew?

Seeing an actor I'd written off play a role so well I get chills.

And pure, zany laugh out loud goofiness.