3.5K views · 194 reactions | Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006) on the Criterion Channel. Set in East Berlin in the early 1980s, what begins as a routine surveillance operation motivated by Cold War politics soon becomes an obsession fueled by personal desires. https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-lives-of-others | The Criterion Collection | Facebook

29K views · 6.2K reactions | The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing others' loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays. #magicalchristmas #christmasart | Magical Christmas | Facebook