Welcome to the Movie Palace, an ever-growing list of my very most favorite films and documentaries. As in my books, you’ll find splendid heroines making their way through fascinating places and times.
Period Pieces, Twentieth Century
The Dressmaker
Coco Before Chanel
La Vie En Rose (biopic of Edith Piaf)
Frida (biopic of Frida Kahlo)
Murder On the Orient Express
Suite Francaise
Dance to the Music of Time
The English Patient
Cinema Paradiso
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (series)
The Crypt of Tears (a Miss Fisher film)
Brothers Bloom
Selma
Atonement
Rebecca
The Scent of Green Papaya
Modigliani-Trailer
Raise the Red Lantern
Chocolat
Period Pieces, Pre-Twentieth Century
A Little Chaos
My Cousin Rachel
Moulin Rouge
Camille Claudel
Documentaries
Catch a Hunk of Lightening/Dorothea Lange
Finding Vivian Maier/Reclusive street photographer
And Still I Rise/Poet Maya Angelou
Bombshell/Hedy Lamarr
Be Natural/first woman film director, Alice Guy Blache
The King/Elvis
The 13th
The Music of Strangers/Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project
