Sick days need the right film. Not too heavy, not too boring. These land right.
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
Warm, absorbing, and completely non-taxing. Exactly what sick days call for.
The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The shocking discoveries were only the tip of the iceberg.
The right texture for a sick day. Present enough to be company, gentle enough not to overwhelm.
In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.
The right texture for a sick day. Present enough to be company, gentle enough not to overwhelm.
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
Warm, absorbing, and completely non-taxing. Exactly what sick days call for.
Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.
The right texture for a sick day. Present enough to be company, gentle enough not to overwhelm.
Being sick and watching a film is one of life's more specific comforts. These films earn that role.
Informative company. Doesn't need your full attention.
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
Warm, absorbing, and completely non-taxing. Exactly what sick days call for.
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
Warm, absorbing, and completely non-taxing. Exactly what sick days call for.
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.
The right texture for a sick day. Present enough to be company, gentle enough not to overwhelm.
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States whose main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people's lives. "The more people you deny health insurance, the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
Warm, absorbing, and completely non-taxing. Exactly what sick days call for.
A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.
Warm, absorbing, and completely non-taxing. Exactly what sick days call for.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.