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Silverlake Life - The View from Here dvd movie. Home » DVD Movies » Art Home » Local » United Kingdom Local • Argentina Local • Ireland Local • Russian Local • Italian Local • Czech Republic/Slovakia Local • Danish Local • French Local • Spanish Local • Japanese Local • Greek Local • Polish Local • Canadian Silverlake Life - The View from Here buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $21.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Color • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 1993 DVD Release : 29 July, 2003 [ + Zoom ]   [ Buy Now ] DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours Silverlake Life - The View from Here description This tough, harrowing 1993 documentary began as a video journal by film instructor Tom Joslin, who wanted to capture details and insights into the process of his own slow death from AIDS, as well as that of his partner, Mark Massi. For much of its running time, Silverlake Life is precisely that, a book of days in which these longtime companions grow weaker, face their anger and grief, visit with friends and family for what may be the last time, attend therapy, and find that life is still--for the most part--a series of small, deceptively simple events and actions that might almost be forgotten if not for the shortage of time left. At a certain point, a former student of Joslin's, Peter Friedman, takes over the production, and the film instantly becomes a memory of itself, a tribute to two men who once lived in this world, found love together, and left this record of the way they died. --Tom Keogh Silverlake Life - The View from Here Customer Reviews   1     2     3   ♥♥♥♥♥ What Does It All Mean? I stumbled upon this documentary not too long ago on DVD and watched it this past weekend. It is a deeply moving story of Tom and Mark, two gay men who have been together for 22 years and are slowly dying of AIDS. Their lives are shown raw and uncensored. We see them for who they--two deeply caring and loving human beings just trying to cope, understand, and triumph in this mystery called Life. We also see how a horrible disease, such as AIDS, slowly ravages one's mind and body. But I think the most one can take from this documentary is the simple truth of Love, and, living the most of each day. You can not help but cry and realize how foolish we really all are with our materialistic obsessions of money, vainity, celebrities, and other nonsense. Interwoven with the lives of these two special men, we also see glimpses of such simple things--a walk in a garden, the inspiring beauty of a blooming flower, the sight of a humming bird in flight, the comfort found in their pet cat as Tom's mother seeks solace after seeing her son die. It is the simple and pure things in life, like Love and the beauty of Life, that matter. Thank you Tom and Mark for reminding us.   1     2     3   Non User