“Kitchen Stories,” DVD, 15 August 2005 (2004). We both really liked this funny if slow-moving and poignant Norwegian movie with an unlikely premise. Swedish home economists are studying the movements of folks to try to design better kitchens. To do this, they position ‘recorders’ who track the movements of people throughout the day. In this case, they set a rather lonely single man in the home of an older rather lonely single man as they’re now studying the kitchens of bachelors in Norway (who’d-a-thunk there was enough of a market to be concerned about it!). Anyway, there is supposed to be no contact, but over time that breaks down and these two men learn much from one another about observing, meaning, and contact. It is a good, droll, and kind film