I’ve been working on a story about documentary film making for MovieMaker magazine. And among the films I have been looking at is 51 Birch Street, by Doug Block, a moving film about the complex private lives of an apparently ordinary American couple.

The New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times chose 51 Birch Street as among their top ten films of 2006. It will be showing at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan on Monday, February 19. If you live in New York, I highly recommend taking the opportunity to see it.