Your Own True Self (video)

Posted by Xeni Jardin, August 12, 2008 7:34 AM |

On Youtube, in 5 parts: the 1993 documentary by Paul Athanas & Jay Rooney about residents of a Boston nursing home who became the stars of David Greenberger's wonderful Duplex Planet magazine. The film is a gently funny series of observations on our cultural fear of old age, documented in the course of interviews with 12 residents of the all-male Duplex facility in Jamaica Plain, NY MA.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. You can purchase this on DVD too. (Thanks, Coop!)

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#1 posted by dubitable , August 12, 2008 9:03 AM

Xeni, surely you meant to write Jamaica Plain, MA?

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#2 posted by Patchouli Pete , August 12, 2008 12:09 PM

The amount of drugs I'm taking right now, I'm likely to have perhaps half the recall these dudes have when I'm their age.

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#3 posted by jimh , August 12, 2008 9:17 PM

This is a wonderful thing.

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