This French film is one of best of the year!

Blue Is The Warmest Color is a deep and honest movie about 3 or so years in the life of a young girl played to nth degree by the astounding young french actress, Adele Exarchopoulos, in the performance of a lifetime, even though she is only 19!  The camera is on her constantly and she doesn't miss a twitch.  It's reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata, with similar camera focus on the great stars, Liv Ullman and Ingrid Bergman.  It seems much of the publicity for Blue is on the intimate and lengthy love scenes between the two main actresses, an important part of the story certainly, but far from more than a part of the arc of this woman's young life, which is so well set out in a long (nearly 3 hours), but most compelling film.

3 Documentaries You Should See

Watching Mohammed Ali's Greatest Fight is to see Ali in his prime.  That incredible combination of brashness and ability with footage of some of his fights and a focus on his battle with the government and his claim of conscious objector status, is something not to be missed, especially for diehard Ali fans.
Muscle Shoals documents the recording studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in the 70's that were sought out and used by so many of the music stars of the 70s and 80s.  Great music and good interviews with many of these stars.
After Tiller deals with the stories of the few doctors in the country who offer third trimester abortions still, in the face of serious threats and possible death since the brutal killing of George Tiller in Kansas in 2009.