Every time I go out driving in this rather treacherous, cold, icy weather, I marvel at two things: one, I make it to my destination and back safely; two, I may not like the weather but the scenery is exceptionally beautiful. Then again, staying home offers beauty and amazing proximity to nature (several nights ago, in the middle of multiple mechanical breakdowns in my home, a group of seven small deer spent the entire night huddled in my driveway around my car, licking it).

As the year ends, I will recount the movies and TV seen since I am not sharing recipes at the moment. Starting with the movies I have seen this year, I will place asterisks next to the ones I recommend. Frankly I enjoyed most of them, so I could recommend any of the films without hesitation. I am sad to admit that I have not watched as many films this year as I normally do. I hope I do better in 2011.

Films seen in 2010
Wendy and Lucy*
$5 a Day
Coco avant Chanel
Tout est pardonné*
Okuribito*
Up in the Air*
The Lovely Bones
Whip It
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Informant!
A Serious Man
Crazy Heart
Veronika Decides to Die
L'armée du crime
Le Père de mes enfants*
Capitalism, A Love Story
Mýrin (Jar City)
The Stoning of Soraya M
Broken Embraces
Summer Hours (l'heure d'été)
After the Wedding* (efter bryllupet)
Cloud 9* (Wolke 9)
Flammen og Citronen
35 rhums*
To be and to have* (être et avoir)
Entre les murs (the class)
Sous les bombes* (under the bombs)
Everlasting moments
12:08 East of Bucharest*
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29* (documentary)
Julia
Crude: The Real Price of Oil (documentary)
Fuel (documentary)
Sügisball
Very Young Girls (documentary)
The Linguists* (PBS documentary)
Crazy Love* (documentary)
Ajami*
Amreeka
Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine)
I Have Never Forgotten You (documentary)
Spring 1941
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (documentary)
Conversations with Other Women
12*
The Yes Men Fix the World*
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High* (documentary)
This Film is Not Yet Rated* (documentary)
Helvetica* (documentary)
Facing the Habit (documentary)
Auschwitz, Inside the Nazi State (documentary)
When You're Strange (documentary)
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (documentary)
The Long Way Home (documentary)
It Might Get Loud (documentary)
Hounddog
O'Horten
Herb & Dorothy (documentary)
Factotum
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (documentary)
The Cove* (documentary)
Julie & Julia
The King of Kong* (documentary)
The Boss of it All
Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man
Malcolm X
Bronson*
Adams æbler*
7 Days in September (documentary)
The Thorn in the Heart (documentary)
Unborn in the USA (documentary)
For My Father*
The Education of Shelby Knox (documentary)
50 Dead Men Walking
The Burning Plain
Lymelife
Cocaine Cowboys (documentary)
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price* (documentary)
Che
Crips and Bloods: Made in America (documentary)
The Yes Men
Into the Arms of Strangers (documentary)
Women in Trouble
Sweet Land*
Born into Brothels (documentary)
Holy Rollers
Revanche
Serpico
Life During Wartime
The Kids are All Right
The Town
The Social Network
I Love You, Phillip Morris*
A Single Man
Rabbit Hole* (I really should not have watched this one in my state of mind.)