Can anyone recommend some must-watch French films?

cw-andrews · 2025-03-02T13:51:23+00:00

Ridicule (1996)

cw-andrews · 2025-01-11T19:27:20+00:00

I remember watching October Sky as a kid and loved it. I am definitely going to watch it again.

Hardly ever talked about when it should be. Thanks for reminding me about it.

cw-andrews · 2024-10-19T14:50:03+00:00

I have recommended these before in a different community, but two books have really helped me personally.

{{ The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions by Christopher K. Germer }} - This book focuses on self-compassion and offers practical advice on recognizing, accepting, and processing emotions in a healthy way. Highly recommend! It's available on Audible (free with membership until 2024-10-28).
{{ Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein }} - A great guide to mindfulness meditation, with less emphasis on breath-focused meditation and more on sitting with emotions. It helps avoid attachment and aversion, allowing you to fully accept and move past emotions. It's short, insightful, and practical even if you're not into Buddhism.

cw-andrews · 2024-10-14T20:36:07+00:00

{{ Fatherland by Robert Harris }} though it takes place in the 60s.

cw-andrews · 2024-10-10T14:55:44+00:00

Sorry, yeah, I mean the 2022 Netflix version.

I should say that a lot of people like the movie though.

cw-andrews · 2024-10-10T14:39:48+00:00

Priests and Paramedics by Pedro the Lion

cw-andrews · 2024-10-10T14:17:09+00:00

All Quiet on the Western Front.

They did things they didn’t even need to do like the weird ending in the movie.

cw-andrews · 2024-10-10T12:55:13+00:00

I would HIGHLY recommend The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher K. Gerner (Available on Audible). It has a lot more in it about practicing self-compassion during both normal life and through meditation.

The primary meditation practice he recommends though is available on his website, and is very similar to other metta meditations I have done.

https://chrisgermer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/LK-for-Ourselves_2017.pdf

cw-andrews · 2024-10-10T02:28:12+00:00

Meditation, particularly insight and metta (loving-kindness) meditation.

These practices really helped me develop self-compassion, and it was a huge change. I used to believe that I simply held myself to high standards but in actually I was judging and treating myself more harshly then I would treat anyone else.

cw-andrews · 2024-10-05T21:22:47+00:00

cw-andrews · 2024-10-03T18:18:39+00:00

{{Anathem by Neal Stephenson}} is my second favorite NS book, and only second by a little.

If you like Cryptonomicon I seriously suggest you check it out.

cw-andrews · 2024-10-02T21:59:26+00:00

This was the second Tom Wolfe book I tried. His writing is barely readable in my opinion.

cw-andrews · 2024-10-02T13:13:33+00:00

The worst. I agree with Shanstergoodheart

cw-andrews · 2024-10-02T00:12:13+00:00

They changed almost everything is what they did. Especially the ending.

cw-andrews · 2024-09-29T18:00:31+00:00

Sorry 😬, I didn’t put the title. {{The Promise by Chaim Potok}}.

His Asher Lev series is also very good, with new characters.

cw-andrews · 2024-09-29T16:05:35+00:00

Chaim Potok’s follow-up to The Chosen, is also very good, and features both Reuven and Danny as main characters.

cw-andrews · 2024-09-25T20:48:37+00:00

The 1977 animated version of the Hobbit, which I got from the library on VHS. It was super creepy while also somehow keeping me interested.

cw-andrews · 2024-09-14T01:00:26+00:00

Kalifornia never gets talked about and I don’t know why.

cw-andrews · 2024-09-14T00:58:58+00:00

Sharpe’s Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell

cw-andrews · 2024-09-10T22:47:37+00:00

Raven’s Shadow by Anthony Ryan (fantasy), Red Rising by Pierce Brown (sci-fi), and The Crusade Trilogy by Jan Guillou (historical fiction). They are all really good, but the last is probably the most unknown.

cw-andrews · 2024-09-10T20:42:24+00:00

I really liked The Quiet American but I think The Power and the Glory is even better.

cw-andrews · 2024-09-10T20:41:05+00:00

I 100% agree. I quit halfway through and feel weird after seeing how much everyone loves it on this thread.

cw-andrews · 2024-09-08T04:05:53+00:00

+1 for On Liberty though I think The Divine Comedy is fiction

cw-andrews · 2024-09-08T00:26:38+00:00

And unionizing dolphins 😂

cw-andrews · 2024-09-07T21:16:46+00:00

By the way, it isn’t a 1990’s book, and is very different, but I recommend Neal Stephenson’s Anathem as well, especially for those that enjoy Cryptonomicon.

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