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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Mindwalk
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List Price: $19.95
Our Price: $145.89
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye, Emmanuel Montes
Directed By: Bernt Amadeus Capra
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302670301
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6302670306
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Running Time: 110
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
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This strange experiment in filmed conversation finds three people--a physicist, a poet, a politician--yammering about the environment, science, art, government, and much else, all in an effort either to find or to dispute connections between disparate subjects. There is no story, as such--just lots of chatter (much of it not particularly profound) shot against a variety of picturesque backgrounds. If director Bernt Capra thought this would turn out to be another My Dinner with André, that fantasy falls on its face. --Tom Keogh
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Summary: Keep Playing Those Mind Games Forever ~ The Illusory Nature Of Reality
Comment: "A stroll around Mont St Michel, France brings together three highly successful and educated people with disparate worldviews; a politician, a poet and a physicist. A conversation ensues about the nature of reality and the new physics that challenges what we perceive to be the tangible world around us.
The '91 film `Mindwalk' is a New Age lecture presented in the guise of a motion picture. It's really quite painless, informative and even enjoyable at times. The tour around St. Michel is wonderful and a stellar cast consisting of Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston and John Heard make the movie well worth a watch.
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Summary: "Mindwalk" Is Wonderful! Here Are Instructions to See It Free, Streamed Over Internet.
Comment: This is a very good movie and I enjoyed it, and besides purchase, you can see the entire video Free, Streaming over Internet. (Copy and Paste Link below or Google search for Mindwalk video.google.com )
As the dialog progresses, we are treated to great walking tour views of the famous castle, Mont. St. Michael, You remember it, it's on an island rock pinnacle off the coast of France. Special treat are the views of the giant clock mechanism. You even see (ugh) the inquisition torture chambers and instruments there.
The dialog was very interesting and covered many valid points for what I need to keep in mind and think about. Such as need to attend to wholeness in any natural process and indeed whole earth systems. A good point is this time of Global Warming Crisis and need to take holistically appropriate action.
It's thoughtfulness, in many ways reminds, me of the book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (ZMM), although the topic of wholeness is not directly in the ZMM book, and of course ZMM covers many other topics, not in the Mindwalk movie.
The movie dialog focuses on how our civilization is "out of joint" because of our restrictive mind set. It points to our overly scientific influenced culture and how we use too much analytic thinking. (You know, break any thing into pieces and analyze each piece.) This is of course how science works, to our great benefit. However in our own time this typical thinking mode (of our entire western civilization) often gets us into trouble.
I clicked on the Internet Link, and the movie fired right up both on my Windows computer and my Mac computer (Safari browser), and played the complete movie with no problem.
Copy and Paste this for Streaming Video video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9107401959308808776&q=mindwalk
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindwalk
More info and photos and history re Mont Saint-Michel at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel
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Some viewers comments found on an Internet blog:
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1) The movie is based on, Fritjof Capra's The Turning Point.
2) Plot: A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medeival island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja (Liv Ullman), a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen to the ideas of this brilliant woman and discuss how her ideas can work in their own politician and poet lives.
3) What these video descriptions aren't telling you is the conversation between these three characters is fascinating and mesmerizing. Spellbinding really. Philosophy, physics and life in general.
4) Have you ever had a conversation with a friend that you wished had gone on for ever? That's kinda what this is like.
5) This video was a mental exercise movie, so it was stimulating. I know few other people who would sit through such philosophical rambling though. ;)
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Click on Henry S Gurr above to see my profile and learn more about book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (ZMM) plus links to my Photos about this book.
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Summary: Simply Put: GREAT Film
Comment: It's such a shame that this movie has gone out of print, and no DVD release seems imminent. This is, simply put, one of the best films I have ever seen. And, to see it here being sold for a minimum double the price of list price means that there is probably little chance that others will take the chance and buy this wonderful gem.
When I first watched it, more than a decade ago, I had no idea what it was about, or who Fritjof Capra was. Now, thanks to this movie, I now have enjoyed many of his books, and even wrote a 25 page final project in a Philosophy of Physics class based on his works, and this film...and got an A.
Extremely thought provoking, beautiful scenery, great acting performances, a true classic work of art...that unfortunately gets lost in this day and age of horrid non-stop action movies with multi-million dollar special effects, and no intelligence whatsoever. I hope this film does not get lost forever one day...it deserves to live on. I'm even worried about wearing out my copy.
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Summary: What No DVD?
Comment: Fascinating movie. I can't believe it hasn't been released on DVD. Criterion Collection, wake up!
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Summary: Could change your life
Comment: Did you know that Ione Sky is in this movie? Did you know that this ultra hottie is actually the daughter of 60's psycadellica folksinger Donovan? I know! I know! It's so like, whoa!
I actually dragged my yound wife to this flick when it hit theatres decades ago. The film so fascinated me that I skipped the post dinner-date sex and began marauding through the campus library grabbing every book I could find on Systems Theory. 48 hours later, I grokked "a system is what it does" and now I can learn, design nand train circles around everyone I've ever met.
What? Skeptical? Then get your hands on this and actually listen to the poem in the context of the preceding physics lecture. See if you're not transformed.
By the way, did I mention that Ione Sky is in it?
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