TurquoiseB wrote: >As input for a book idea, I was wondering whether >folks here have favorite films that they consider >spiritual. > >What I'm looking for is movies that, for you, >capture or express something valuable about some >aspect of the overall spiritual process. It could >be bhakti, or courage (being a spiritual warrior), >or psychic powers, or self analysis, or death and >dying, or reincarnation, or making breakthroughs >in one's own spiritual development, or the teacher- >student relationship, or pretty much anything if >it turned you on and inspired you. > >For the record, my list of such films would include >weird shit like Conan The Barbarian, Risky Business, >Gandhi, Alien, Groundhog Day, Highlander, The Last >Wave, The Road Warrior, The Last Temptation of Christ, >Little Buddha, The Life of Brian, Seven Years in >Tibet, Jacob's Ladder, Don Juan de Marco, Seven >Samurai, Thief, Dune, Excalibur, Pow Wow Highway, >Cool Runnings, L.A. Story, The Milagro Beanfield >War, The Princess Bride, Picnic At Hanging Rock, >Being There, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The >Razor's Edge, Schindler's List, Witness, The Hitcher, >It, Back To School, Big Trouble in Little China, >The Crow, Shaolin vs. Lama, Spiritual Kung Fu, >Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, The Terminator, Windhorse, >Legend, Gladiator, Searching For Debra Winger, >Million Dollar Baby, Spy Game, The Stepford Wives, >Bubba Ho-Tep, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Eternal >Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Cup, Travelers >and Magicians, Immortal Beloved, Tous les Matins du >Monde, The Matrix, Dirty Pretty Things, Crouching >Tiger Hidden Dragon, Spirited Away, and American >Beauty. > >You get the picture. Anything goes. Violence and >blood and horror don't rule a movie out from being >spiritual, nor does the subject matter, however in- >your-face it might be, if it triggers some revelation >in you and turns you on spiritually. Given the >potential theme of this book, the more Tantric >the better. > >Thanks in advance... > >Unc > > > > Also with regard to tantra here are some Indian films which deal with the real tantra: Jadoo Toona - which is a 1970's film where a little girl visiting her grandparent's village becomes possessed by a jin. A tantric is called to exorcise the spirit. I rented this film on a rather chewed up VHS tape from the local Indian grocery. There is a VCD of it available in India which I may try to obtain sometime but still hold out for a DVD version even if the transfer is not that good. The "special effects" are a bit tacky (model airplane instead of a real one). There was a rumor of a remake a few years back but I haven't heard anything more.
Raat - a 1992 film which I watched last night starring Om Puri who shows up in the last 15 minutes as tantric to "save the day." Again it is a story of a girl (college age this time) being possessed by an evil spirit. Available on DVD though the transfer was letterboxed instead of anamorphic. The we have some Bollywood tantra (more Saturday morning cartoon show than real) films such as: Bhoot Vastu Rudraksha You can find the above on DVD at your local Indian grocery. Otherwise Netflix may have them and there more than a few Indian online rental services. Bollywood films suffer from the fact they don't use scripts. Producers are afraid the scripts will get stolen and some unscrupulous (apparently a good description of the whole Bollywood industry) producer will make the film first. So they write the dialog on the sets. They may also suffer from the fact the producer wants you to watch ever foot of film that was shot whether it contributes to the story or not. So films can drag on for up to 3 hours of course interspersed with girls dancing around trees. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
