Here are some more movie recommendations:

1. “My kid could paint that”: A real-life whodunnit involving a very young child prodigy abstract painter. The central question of the documentary is this: did the young girl actually paint the paintings she is getting acclaim for, or did her father paint them?

2. “Remember that Night Live at the Royal Albert Hall” (David Gilmour live): One of my favorite all-time musicians, David Gilmour, gives an amazing performance in this DVD chronicling his 2006 world tour. He is accompanied by Ray Manzarek from Roxy Music, Richard Wright (keyboardist from Pink Floyd), and joined for some songs by Crosby & Nash and by David Bowie.

His solo work is pretty good, but the highlights are his versions of classic Pink Floyd tunes. He performs my favorite song, “Echoes”, live for the first time in 20 years and it is stunning. When you see/hear him perform it, you’ll understand what an amazing accomplishment it is.

The camera work is great as is the audio mastering. If you can see it in Blu-ray, you should.

3. “Angel-A”: This film really worked for me. It’s a love story between an angel, played by former Supermodel Rie Rasmussen, and a man who is about to kill himself. It is directed by Luc Besson, the man behind “La Femme Nikita”, “Fifth Element” and “Leon the Professional”. You wouldn’t think that the guy who did those films could also pull off an interesting love story, but there you have it.

It is shot beautifully by Thierry Arbogast (the same cinematographer who did “Fifth Element”) in black and white. Not only is it a romantic fantasy but also an ode to Paris.

I was very pleasantly surprised by Rie Rasmussen’s performance. When I first saw her onscreen, I had no expectation that she would do as good a job acting as she did. Compare her performance here to any romantic comedy performance by Scarlett Johanssen, and see who you think comes out on top.

4. “The Hoax”: A very entertaining film with Richard Gere, based on a true story, about a reporter who faked a series of interviews with Howard Hughes. Well worth seeing.

5. “The Future We Will Create: The World inside of TED”: This is a documentary about the TED conference which takes place every year in Monterey. Aside from making me sick with envy of the people who get invited to attend this conference, the film was a very compelling insight into a diverse set of thinkers/artists/scientists. So much so, that I went to the TED site to download the full lectures that the film draws upon, so that I could watch them in their entirety. Very interesting and entertaining film because of the subject matter and not because of the talent of the film-makers per se.

You can access all of the TED lectures, many more than are covered in the DVD documentary, at www.TED.com. It’s worth checking out in its own right.