The German Doctor Visits the Congo with his husband Claude who commits suicide.

Well, here we are again; and this time we're talkin' films.  We were able to slow down long enough to have dinner last night at Bistro FouFou.  We've seen some fabulous films already, so we decided to declare our favorites so far, both documentary and feature films.


DOCUMENTARY
Sorry I missed Virunga about the national park in the Congo.  The mountain gorillas need protection during the conflict there. Colleen and Mike voted this film their favorite. We all loved Running from Crazy, the story of Mariel Hemingway and her family legacy of mental illness. I chose it as my favorite documentary. The filmmaker, Barbara Kopple was there to received the TCFF Mid-Life Achievement Award for her work.  It was hard to choose between that and The Case Against Eight, the five-year legal battle for marriage equality.  Doreen chose this as her favorite.  We have more docs to see, but so far they've been exceptional!

FEATURE:
Colleen and Mike sponsored a winner in The German Doctor. a chilling account of Nazi war criminal, Josef Mengele (the angel of death), set in a German community in Patagonia in l960.  Mengele was in hiding, but still up to no good.  We all voted this our favorite movie so far.

So True!

In case this line-up seems a bit bleak, we always mix 'em up. Comedies, drama, docs, only one we didn't really like so much.
We have three movies today, lunch, hopefully on the roof-top deck of the Franklin to people watch.  This is a good time to mention Traverse City has rolled out the red carpet with absolutely beautiful weather each and every day!

Since I actually won (which I never do) complimentary tickets to the Filmmaker's Party tonight, we'll wrap up our Saturday with a party. We leave the house at 9:00 am and will be draggin' home late full of excellent food and probably a glass of wine--or two.