Our unique, comprehensive and constantly updated list of Second Half Movies is now available for immediate download. The cost is $10, and its list of 216 films, each with its own relevant commentary and specifications, will provide you with hours and hours of entertainment and enlightenment. Who knows these extraordinary films may even change your life. Many of our current and former partners are convinced that they have.

Here are a few listings from the 2008 version of The Rest of the Story: The Cinema of Age:

ETERNITY AND A DAY (1999)

Directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos
Starring Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Achileas Skevis, Alexandra Ladikou

Poetic, complex study of Alexandre, an old poet diagnosed with terminal cancer, who spends his lastfree day before checking into the hospital searching for meaning and strength by befriending an unnamed Albanian boy. Their adventures together are reminiscent of Wild Strawberries, and in the end the young boy’s night journey reinvigorates the old man’s creative vitality and helps him to prepare for his final journey.

Format: Closed‐captioned, Color, DVD‐Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: Greek with English subtitles
Studio: New Yorker Video
Runtime: 130 mins.

THE FIGHTER (1999)

Directed by Amir Bar‐Lev
Starring Arnost Lustig

Brilliant documentary follows Jan (The Fighter) as he retraces his holocaust, WWII, and Communist adventures from Prague, to Trieste, to Southern Italy, London, and back to Prague. He is accompanied by Czech novelist Lustig, another Czech Jew and Aushwitz survivor. The two, friends for only a few years,eventually quarrel over Jan’s insistence that he is and remains a fighter because that is what helped him to survive—his harrowing escape from occupied Prague, his internment in an Italian POW Camp, his escape to London, his several years in the RAF, and his return to Prague where he was again imprisoned by the Communists. But now he is in his late seventies and the film asks if his belligerence is still an appropriate response—in peacetime and, of course, in old age. Fascinating.

Format: Color, DVD‐Video, NTSC
Language: English with English subtitles
Studio: First Run Features
Runtime: 86 mins.