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Philosophy Film Festival
Films to stimulate thought, whether provocative dramas, or
films on the lives of philosophers and intellects, or documentaries
on abstract matters of philosophy – especially objectivist.
Film-Philosophy International Salon-Journal [est. 1996]
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"Movies and The Meaning of Life: Philosophers Take On Hollywood" [2005] Edited by Kimberly A. Blessing & Paul J. Tudico Open Court 8¾x5¾ pb [4/2005] for $12.21 |
 | "Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons From The Movies" [2005] by Dean Sluyter Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [2/2005] for $11.20 |
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"Philosophy Through Fiction and Film" [2003] by Burton F. Porter Prentice Hall 9½x5¾ pb [5/2003] for $61.20 |
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"Philosophy Through Film" [2002] by Mary M. Litch Routledge 9x6 pb [6/2002] for $34.95 Routledge 10x6 hardcover [6/2002] for $100.00 |
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"Philosophy Goes To The Movies: An Introduction To Philosophy" [2002] by Christopher Falzon Routledge 9½x6¼ pb [3/2002] out of print/used Routledge 9x6¾ hardcover [3/2002] out of print/used |
Be sure also to visit the
Existentialist Film Festival Page
"A Brief History of Time"
[NBC/Anglia/Channel Four 1992]
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Prof. Stephen W. Hawking's surprise bestseller of 1988 in visual/aural form. Directed by Errol Morris; original music by Philip Glass Paramount color VHS [11/93] for $19.95 color DVD not yet available full credits from IMDb best-seller 1988 book Bantam 9x6 pb [9/98] for $11.96 |
"Animal Farm"
George Orwell's famed 1945 barnyard fable about revolution betrayed.
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1954 British animated feature co-written & co-directed by
Joy Batchelor & John Halas (Britain's first feature-length cartoon)
Home Vision color DVD [11/2004] for $22.46 Home Vision color VHS [11/2004] for $19.95 United American Video color VHS [8/97] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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1999 Hallmark/TNT animated TV movie Directed by John Stephenson Hallmark color DVD [1/2000] for $$17.98 Hallmark color VHS [9/2000] for $9.98 full credits from IMDb |
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1945 novel by George Orwell Listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Prentice Hall pb [4/96] for $6.95 Blackstone ABRIDGED audio [4/2001] for $21.95 Penguin UNABR audio [6/96] out of stock/used |
"Bicentennial Man"
[1492/Columbia Dec 1999]
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An unusual android experiences emotions like a human, and wants to become more and more human, over two centuries of time. An excellent look at what exactly it means to be 'human', to be 'mortal'. Directed by Chris Columbus; script by Nicholas Kazan, based on books by Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg; starring Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill & Oliver Platt
Disney color VHS [11/2000] for $9.99 Touchstone widescreen DVD [1/2002] for $17.99 Sony soundtrack CD [12/99] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"The Bicentennial Man & Other Stories" [11 stories; 1976] by Isaac Asimov story won 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novelette Orion Publng pb [3/2000] for $16.95 Doubleday hardcover [9/76] out of print/used |
"The Boy With Green Hair"
[RKO Nov 1948]
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This fable about a war orphan whose hair mysteriously turns green brings many questions into focus. Directed by Joseph Losey; script by blacklisted writers Ben Barzman & Alfred Lewis Levitt, from a story by Betsy Beaton; starring Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale & Dean Stockwell
Terra Ent. color DVD [11/2003] for $12.99 Terra Ent. color VHS? [6/2003] for 18.98 full credits from IMDb playscript, adapted by F. Andrew Leslie: Dramatist's Play Service pb [12/61] for $8.49 |
"The Cardinal" [Columbia Dec 1963]
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While Preminger's film waters down and even cheapens the story, the hypocrisy of religious organizations (of all stripes) and their devotion to politics over the purported (religious) message is made very clear.
Produced & directed by Otto Preminger; starring Tom Tryon, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley, Jill Haworth, Dorothy Gish, Raf Vallone, John Saxon, John Huston, Burgess Meredith, Josef Meinrad, Cecil Kellaway, Ossie Davis, Chill Wills & Arthur Hunnicutt; nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Director & Best Actor (JH)
Warner widescreen color DVD [2/2003] 2 disks for $23.99 (many extras) Warner widescreen color DVD [9/2005] for $12.99 Anchor Bay color VHS [6/89] out of prodn/many used Anchor Bay widescreen color VHS [6/95] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson [S&S June 1950] Pocket mass pb [8/77] out of print/used S&S hardcover [6/50] out of print/used |
"Charly"
[A.B.C. Pictures/ Cinerama Sept 1968]
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Charly, a retarded adult, is given an experimental treatment that has raised the intelligence of a retarded mouse named Algernon. Charly becomes a sensation, for his new insight and intelligance are exceptional. But then Charly notices the latter stages showing up in Algernon. {When Cliff Robertson starred in the 1961 "United States Steel Hour" production of "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon", based on the novel "Flowers For Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, he bought the rights and later was responsible for turning that story into this film.}
Directed by Ralph Nelson; script by Stirling Silliphant, based on a story by Daniel Keyes; original music by Ravi Shankar; starring Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney & Ruth White; won Oscar for Best Actor (CR) M.G.M. Home Video widescreen color DVD [3/2005] for $9.99 Fox Home Ent. color VHS [8/92] out of production/used Moving Image / Comet Records soundtrack CD [undated] out of prodn/scarce full credits from IMDb |
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"Flowers For Algernon" [1959 novella, bestseller 1966 novel] by Daniel Keyes the novella won a Hugo Award; the novel won a Nebula Award Harvest Books mass pb [6/2004] for $7.99 Harvest Books 7¼x5¾ pb [5/2005] for $9.60 Harcourt 8¼x5¾ hardcover [4/95] for $11.56 "Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey" [2000] by Daniel Keyes Harvest Books 7x5¼ pb [9/2004] for $13.50 Challenge Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2000] out of print/used "Charlie and Algernon" Broadway musical play [Sept 1980] stageplay credits at IBDb |
"Chocolat" [David Brown/Miramax Dec 2000]
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Chocolate in its many forms may be an obvious metaphor as an antidote to repression, but what is marvelous here is how deftly (and how French-ly) the fairy tale is woven together. A forever-transient woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a river- side village in France; their happy non-conformity stirs up trouble with the rigid local mayor, who pressures the new priest to enforce the village's tradition of tranquility.
Directed by Lasse Hallström; script by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on the novel by Joanne Harris; chocolate expert Walter Bienz; starring Juliette Binoche, Victoire Thivisol, Judi Dench, Lena Olin, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss, Aurelien Parent Koenig, Peter Stormare, Hugh O'Conor, Johnny Depp & Leslie Caron; nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture & Best Script; 8 BAFTA noms; won SAG Award (JD)
Disney/Miramax widescreen color DVD [8/2001] for $9.99 Walt Disney Video color VHS [8/2001] out of prodn/many used Sony soundtrack CD [1/2001] 18 tracks for $9.98 full credits at IMDb • French-language official website |
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"Chocolat: A Novel" [1999 bestseller] by Joanne Harris
The happy ending in the movie did not come from the book, and the battle is between the free-spirit chocalatier and the town priest. Penguin 7¾x5 pb [1/2000] for $10.08 Penguin movie tie-in 7¾x5 pb [11/2000] out of print/hundreds used Viking 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/99] out of print/many used |
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sequel "The Girl With No Shadow" aka 'The Lollipop Shoes' [2008]
Forced to flee the village, Vianne and her two daughters change their names and hide in the Montmartre district of Paris; when the owner of the patisserie shop where Vianne (now Yanne) lives & works dies, she gradually converts it into a chocolaterie. Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2009] for $11.69 Black Swan mass pb [2/2009] out of print/used Wm. Morrow 9x6 hardcover [4/2008] for $19.96 |
"The Dot and The Line"
[M.G.M. Dec 1965]
| Ten-minute animated short along classic love story lines – boy meets girl, boy loses girl to another, boy expands his capabilities and wins her – except that the 'people' in question are a dot and a very straight line and a squiggle. Directed by Chuck Jones & Maurice Noble; narration by Robert Morley; nominated for Best Short Film at Cannes, won Oscar for Best Animated Short;
full credits from IMDb; available as part of the |
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"Warner Brothers Academy Awards Animation Collections" [2008]
3-disk set of 15 Oscar-winners & 26 Oscar-nominated cartoons Warner Brothers Home Ent. color DVD [2/2008] 3 disks for $37.99 or on the 1-disk version with the 15 winners only [2008] Warner Brothers Home Ent. DVD [2/2008] for $16.99 |
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"The Dot and The Line: A Romance In Lower Mathematics" [1963] by Norton Juster SeaStar 6.6x5½ hardcover [12/2000] for $7.95 Random House pb [1/91] out of print/used |
"Dumbo" [Disney Oct 1941]
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The 'magic' black feather that Timothy Q. Mouse and the crows give to the mute, floppy-eared Dumbo stands for every religion, belief system and dogma of Mankind. When Dumbo loses the magic feather atop the diving tower, he must take action in the face of his fears on his own, just like humans must do each moment.
Directed by Ben Sharpsteen, adapted from a book by Helen Aberson & Harold Perl; voices of Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy & Verna Felton
Disney 60th Anniv. color VHS [10/2001] for $20.99 Disney 60th Anniv. (Spanish) color VHS [10/2001] for $22.99 Disney 60th Anniv. color DVD [10/2001] for $23.99 Disney Records audio CD [3/2001] for $11.98 full credits from IMDb | theme music [2min:16sec] |
see also "The Tao of Dumbo" essay at Working Minds Philosophy website
"Einstein Revealed" [Nova/BBC 1996]
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Understanding Albert Einstein – Time Magazine's 'Man of the Century' – opens us up to the possibility of genius among our fellows. Nova tv documentary, directed by Peter Jones WGBH Boston 2-hour color VHS [4/97] for $19.95 full credits from IMDb |
"Insignificance" [RPC/Zenith 1985]
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Marilyn Monroe & others barge in on Albert Einstein, to discuss relativity theory and politics and baseball.
Directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey & Tony Curtis
Artisan color VHS [11/99] for $14.98 full credits from IMDb |
"The Elegant Universe"
3-hour tv special [P.B.S./Nova aired Oct 2003]
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P.B.S./WGBH letterbox color DVD [1/2004] for $19.95
P.B.S./WGBH color VHS [1/2004] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • P.B.S. official program site "Physics: The Elegant Universe & Beyond": 3-hour P.B.S. program above, plus "Einstein Revealed" [1996] and "Einstein's Big Idea" [2005] P.B.S./WGBH color DVD box set [2/2006] 4 disks for $34.99 |
 | "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions & The Quest For The Ultimate Theory" [1999] by Brian Greene Vintage 8x5 pb [2/2000] for $10.85 W.W. Norton 9¼x6¼ pb [2/99] out of print/used W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [2/99] for $13.57 |
"Field of Dreams" [1989]
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"If you build it, they will come." Co-written & directed by Phil Alden Robinson; starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan & Ray Liotta
Universal color VHS [8/99] for $9.98 Universal widescreen VHS [8/99] for $14.98 Universal color DVD [3/2002] for $15.98 BMG soundtrack CD [5/89] for $11.98 full credits from IMDb |
"Forrest Gump" [Paramount 1994]
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The hilarious and profound epic story of a dim-wit nobody.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis; starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright & Gary Sinise; won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor (Hanks), Best Effects & Best Editing, nominated for 7 more
Paramount widescreen color Blu-ray [11/2009] 2 disks for $19.99 
Paramount widescreen color DVD [8/2001] 2 disks for $8.49 Paramount color VHS [9/96] out of prodn/many, many used Sony soundtrack CD [8/94] out of prodn/many used Sony/Legacy soundtrack double CD [8/2001] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb • theme music [2min:47sec midi file] • movie entry at Wikipedia "Making of.." documentary [1994] Directed by Peyton Reed
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"The Fountainhead" [Warner Bros. 1949]
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Gary Cooper stars as architect Howard Roark, Ayn Rand's ideal individual.
Directed by King Vidor [1894-1982]; screenplay by Ayn Rand; co-starring Patricia Neal & Raymond Massey
Warner b&w DVD [11/2006] for $17.49 Warner b&w VHS [1/90] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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based on the 1943 novel by Ayn Rand [1905-82]
Signet pb [8/96] for $8.99 |
[documentary Feb 1998]
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Written & directed by Michael Paxton; Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature
Strand widescreen DVD [8/2004] for $31.99 Image Ent letterbox color DVD [10/99] out of stock/used Strand color VHS [3/2000] out of stock/used full credits at IMDb | official website |
"The Gods Must Be Crazy"
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A Kalahari bushman finds a Coke bottle dropped from the sky, but the new technological wonder disrupts his tribe, and so Xixo sets out to return the bottle to the gods. In the sequel, Xixo chases after a fast-moving truck where his children are accidental stowaways. Produced, written & directed by Jamie Uys; starring N!xao as Xixo combo DVD with both "TGMBC I" & "TGMBC II" Columbia/TriStar widescreen DVD [2/2004] 2 disks for $20.97 "TGMBC" [1980; US release 1984] Fox VHS [9/90] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb "TGMBC II" [1989] Col/TriStar VHS [1/93] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"The Grand Illusion" [France 1937]
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Complex, profound and heartbreakingly human look at the illusions inherent in war & heroism, social class & individual character, romantic love, religion – all are trapped in illusion.
Co-written & directed by Jean Renoir; starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim & Marcel Dalio; Oscar nominated for Best Picture.
Criterion b&w DVD w/English subtitles [11/99] for $34.76 TimelessVideo b&w VHS w/English subtitles [8/97] for $14.99 Criterion b&w VHS w/English subtitles [11/99] for $29.95 full credits from IMDb |
"Rules of the Game"
{aka 'La Règle du Jeu'} [France 1939]
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Banned in France until 1956, Renoir's second masterpiece views life as both a comedy and a tragedy, showing a frenzied hunting weekend in the country against a background of Europe's pending devastation during World War II. Indescribable: What you are left with is the sense that Life makes no sense whatsoever, which conclusion makes perfect sense. Co-written & directed by & co-starring Jean Renoir; also starring Marcel Dalio, Roland Toutain & Nora Gregor
Criterion b&w DVD w/subtitles [1/2004] 2 disks for $29.96 Home Vision b&w VHS w/English subtitles [7/93] for $29.95 full credits from IMDb |
"Lost Horizon" [1937]
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An idealist/adventurer is shanghaied to Shangri-La, unknown utopian land of perfect peace, love, beauty and harmony. He is asked to succeed the High Lama, near death at the age of 200 years. What would you do? Produced & directed by Frank Capra [1897-1991]; script by Robert Riskin, based on James Hilton's novel; starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe {as The High Lama}, H.B. Warner, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo & Isabel Jewell; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best A.D., Best Supporting Actor {HBW), Best Music (Dimitri Tiomkin) & Best Sound; won Oscars for Best Art Direction & Best Film Editing Sony b&w DVD [8/99] for $24.88 Sony b&w VHS [6/97] out of prodn/used Soundtrack Factory soundtrack CD [1/99] for $11.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Lost Horizon: The Haunting Novel of Love In Shangri-La" [1936] by James Hilton [1900-54] Pocket mass pb [1/88] for $6.99 Harper 8x5½ pb [6/2004] for $9.97 Amereon 8¾x6 hardcover [6/93] for $24.95 Reader's Digest hardcover [1/90] out of prodn/many used book entry at Wikipedia; book/movie fansite |
Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"
[Universal 1983]
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Universal color DVD [8/2005] for $12.99 Universal color VHS [1/98] out of stock/many used full credits from IMDb |
"Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium" [Fox Nov 2007]
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Mr. Magorium is 243 years old and has decided to leave his Wonder Emporium business to the sad girl who manages the place for him; when the store finds out that Mr. Magorium is leaving, it rebels.
Written & directed by Zach Helm; starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Zach Mills & Jason Bateman
Fox widescreen color DVD [3/2008] for $14.99 Fox color DVD [3/2008] for $19.49 full credits from IMDb • official website |
"1984" [Virgin Films Oct 1984]
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Winston Smith endures a squalid existence as a clerk in a bureaucracy of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, where everyone is under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police.
Written & directed by Michael Radford, based on Orwell's novel; starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher & James Walker
M.G.M. Video widescreen color DVD [3/2003] out of prodn/many used Polygram Video color VHS [2/97] out of prodn/used E.M.I. Import soundtrack CD [12/84] 9 tracks on 2 disks for $10.98 full credits at IMDb |
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"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel" [1949 classic] by George Orwell [1903-50] Signet/NAL mass pb [1961] for $9.99 Plume Centennial Edition 7¾x5¼ pb [5/2003] for $10.37 Plume 8x5¼ pb [4/83] for $10.20 Everyman's Library 8x5 hardcover [11/92] for $13.60 book entry at Wikipedia |
"1984: The Opera" [2005]: official website • Wikipedia
"Orlando" [1992]
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Ordered never to age by Queen Elizabeth I, Orlando (the stunning Tilda Swinton) lives thru 400 years of history, intrigue and exotic locales, and even an unexplained change of gender from male to female.
Written & directed by Sally Potter from Virginia Woolff's novel Columbia/TriStar color VHS [7/95] for $19.95 Columbia/TriStar widescreen color DVD [8/99] for $25.16 Uni/Varese Sarabande soundtrack CD [6/93] for $13.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Orlando: A Biography" by Virginia Woolff [1928] A rambunctious comic masterpiece. Harvest 8x5¼ pb [5/93] for $10.40 |
"Peaceful Warrior"
[Lions Gate June 2006]
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An intense gymnastics hopeful has his leg and his life shattered, yet the coaching of a taciturn gas station attendant-philosopher prods him into performing at the Olympics. The direction & cinematography are superb.
Directed by Victor Salva; cinematography by Sharone Meir; staring Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Nolte, Amy Smart, Tim DeKay, Ashton Holmes, Paul Wesley & B.J. Britt
video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb official movie site |
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based on "Way of The Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives" [1980 bestseller]" by Dan Millman This book (and film) are included here because the philosophical concepts are correct. However, the use of magic as the frame of the story prevents those who believe in magic from hearing the Important Wisdom, and those able/ready to hear the Important Wisdom have no need for the b.s. of the magical hooferaw. H.J. Kramer 8¼x5½ pb [4/2006] for $9.71 New World Library 20th Anniversary 8¼x5½ pb [9/2000] for $10.36 Houghton Mifflin hardcover [9/80] out of print/used Spanish-language edition: New World Library 8½x5½ pb [6/2001] for $11.01 |
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"Wisdom of The Peaceful Warrior: A Companion To The Book That Changes Lives" [2007] by Dan Millman H.J. Kramer 8¼x5½ pb [1/2007] for $9.71 |
Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi Trilogy
Godfrey Reggio's 'Qatsi' Trilogy Page
official website
"The Swimmer" [1968]
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Athletic Burt Lancaster interrupts the lives of his neighbors on a quest to swim from pool to pool across the valley, an odyssey that leads from love and power to despair and ruin. Script by Eleanor Perry from a story by John Cheever; directed by Frank Perry & Sydney Pollack
Columbia/TriStar color VHS [9/94] for $14.95 full credits from IMDb |
"The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
| The thing that Wells got right back in 1895 is the split of society in twain, and the realization of his prophecy is already too apparent at the beginning of the XXIst Century – the eloi and the morlocks are today's Haves and Have-Nots. The 1960 film is a sci-fi classic; the 2002 release altered the adventure tale into an unrecognizable and weak love story. |
 | M.G.M. feature film [1960] Directed by George Pal, starring Rod Taylor & Yvette Mimieux; won Oscar Award for Special Effects Warner letterbox color DVD [10/2000] for $15.99 M.G.M. Video Ltd Edition widescreen color DVD [12/2000] out of prodn/used Warner color VHS [3/2001] out of prodn/many used Crescendo soundtrack CD [4/89] for $10.98 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Time Machine: An Invention" [1895] Tor pb [12/95] for $3.99 Ace movie tie-in pb [12/2001] for $5.99 S&S ABR audio [4/97] for $12.60 S&S ABR 2-disk audio CD [4/97] for $14.00 |
 | "Morlock Night" [1979] by K.W. Jeter
"What happened when the time machine returned ..." A sequel to "The Time Machine" with the Morlocks invading Victorian London by time machine; considered the first 'steampunk' novel. {Call this the 'pulpy' sequel.} Grafton pb [5/89] out of print/rare (high priced} Daw mass pb [6/79] out of print/rare (high priced} |
 | "The Time Ships" [1995] by Stephen Baxter
The Time Traveler's return from the future has altered that same future, so he must hop around thru Time before he can return to the proper future and save Weema. {Call this the 'philosophical' sequel.} Eos mass pb [11/95] for $7.99 Voyager mass pb [9/95] out of print/used HarperCollins hardcover [2002] out of print/used |
 | DreamWorks/Warner feature film [March 2002] Directed by Simon Wells & Gore Verbinski; starring Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias & Jeremy Irons full credits from IMDb |
"Tin Drum" [Argos/Bioskop 1979]
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Günter Grass's novel, and the film adapted from it, use the tin drum as the perfect metaphor for That Little Voice Inside Your Head.
Co-written & directed by Volker Schlöndorff; German title "Die Blechtrommel" Criterion color DVD [5/2004] for $24.99 Kino Video widescreen VHS with English subtitles [11/96] for $39.95 Image Ent letterbox DVD with English subtitles [8/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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based on the 1959 novel by Günter Grass Translation by Ralph Manheim Knopf/Vintage 8x5¼ pb [1/90] for $12.76 |
"Transformation: The Life and Legacy
of Werner Erhard"
[independent / festival circuit 2006 / U.S. release pending]
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interviewees include Werner Erhard, Randy McNamara & Laurel Scheaf
Written, produced & directed by Robyn Symon video/DVD not yet available; full credits from IMDb official movie site |
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
[Saul Zaentz/Orion 1988]
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A beautifully-photographed meditation on love, politics & bliss seen thru an expatriate Czech doctor's reactions to the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968. Co-written & directed by Philip Kaufman; starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche & Lena Olin Home Vision widescreen color DVD [8/2000] for $25.49 MGM/UA color VHS [8/2000] for $14.95 Fantasy soundtrack CD [7/91] for $15.98 full credits from IMDb |
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based on the 1984 novel by Milan Kundera Translation by Michael Henry Heim A poetic mix of philosophy & fiction, lightness & darkness, constructed like a Beethoven quartet. Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [5/99] for $10.40 Isis UNABR audio [1/99] for $69.95 Isis audio CD [12/99] 10 disks for $99.95 |
"Wings of Desire"
[Argos/Orion 1987]
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This brilliant, stunning, gorgeous subjective look at what it means to be human captures the richness of ordinary life. Directed by Wim Wenders; German title "Der Himmel über Berlin" (Heaven Above Berlin); starring Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander & Peter Falk; many awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography & more
MGM/UA color VHS w/English subtitles [6/2000] for $17.99 Orion color VHS w/English subtitles [5/93] out of stock/used Nonesuch soundtrack CD [10/90] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb purchase 11"w by 17"h poster via AllPosters.com |
"Faraway, So Close"
[Bioskop/Sony 1993]
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The sequel to "Wings of Desire" (above), this film is superb in its own right. Directed by Wim Wenders; German title "In weiter Ferne, so nah!"; starring Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander & Nastasia Kinski; several awards for direction & cinematography Col/TriStar color VHS w/English subtitles [3/2000] for $14.95 Col/TriStar widescrn DVD w/Engl subtitles [9/2000] for $26.96 full credits from IMDb |
And will somebody please make a movie of:
"Stranger In A Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand [1905-82]
The don Juan books by Carlos Castañeda [1925-1998]
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