We started talking about movies at the last RRR and came up with this list.  We’ve added most of them to our Netflix queue.

RRR 2010 recommended movies

Fred y Elsa (Spanish)

Genghis Blues (documentary on blind American singer who learns Tuvan throat singing)

Throw Your Heart Down (Bela Fleck documentary on origins of banjo in three African countries)

Lars and the Real Girl (quirky film about socially-challenged young man and his family and community)

Death at a Funeral (British)

Some Like it Hot (classic with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon)

Singing Elizabeth’s Tune (music of Byrd with Chanticleer)

Spitfire Grill

Every Time We Say Goodbye

The Secrets in their Eyes (Argentinian film, goes back and forth from time of dictatorship to present.  Prosecutor’s office tries to nail murderer, then tries to solve the case years later)

I Have Always Loved You (French film, with Kirsten Scott Thomas)

Io son Amore (I am love) Italian, with Tilda Swinton

Ring of Bright Water

Departures (Japanese, Best Foreign Film 2009)

Seraphine (French –about an eccentric woman painter who is discovered just before WWII – based on a true story)

La Tourneuse (the page turner)

Sequins (French)

Gaya’s (?) got erased

Heaven

Heartbreaker (French)

Chun Yang (Korean)