Tagged with Movies

The Matrix, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Stalker, Au Hasard Balthazar – some of the films famous for evoking the evasive nature of the mystical encounter. We polled Reality Sandwich contributors to find out their favorites. Here is the first installment of their recommendations.  (more)

Hollywood has taken a cue from the cosmic weather. The newly released films and upcoming offerings have been shifting consciousness and reflecting the archetypal evolution unfolding at this critical turn of the ages. Here are some thoughts on why film is such an important and magical experience at this time. (more)

Introducing our new column of book, video and music reviews. In this edition: Cloud Atlas, Two Fingers Stunt Rhythms, The Moneyless Manifesto, Dreams and Guided Imagery, Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, The Secrets of Alchemy, Video Game Play and Consciousness, and Terence McKenna Omnibus 2012.    (more)

In the new romantic comedy Wanderlust, actress Jennifer Aniston drinks ayahuasca for the first time.  In just a few years, the once secret Amazonian brew has snaked its way into the entertainment industry. But the question lies: can Hollywood portray this medicinal, psychonautic elixir with the maturity and complexity necessary to address its multifaceted experiences? (more)

If there ever was an Illuminati orchestrating world events, it has lost control. Today, the atmosphere among the financial elite fluctuates between panic and resignation. They cannot be bothered to suppress all the information freely available on the Internet that is accelerating the shift of consciousness away from separation and scarcity. (more)

Stories frame reality for us, telling us what is possible and showing us how we might act. The Fifth Sacred Thing is a story that has influenced hundreds of thousand of people.  My determination to make it into a movie comes from my belief that a story can become a magical working, a spell. (more)

I went to see The Tree of Life for the first time with a group of spiritually minded friends. Half loved it, half hated it. The second time I went alone with my pen and paper. (more)

America since its inception has rarely embraced true myths of self-sacrifice, and so it is hardly surprising that the Thor posters proclaim: "Courage is Immortal." It is the commando's slogan.  Where in America is there a child who might learn that both Odin and Thor achieved their Archangelic and Angelic destinies by acts of self-sacrificing renunciation rather than self-aggrandizing physical violence against imaginary enemies? (more)

Conspicuously absent from both the theatrical and DVD release versions of Avatar is the scene of the "Dreamhunt." It's inclusion, as originally depicted in the Avatar script and as an incomplete scene as a DVD extra, would have lifted the movie to a whole new, and more complex level. (more)

A powerful new documentary about the life of an underground ibogaine provider and Bwiti shaman begins a week long run at the IFC Center in NYC. (more)

Could Avatar be the first messenger of a new psychedelic wave ushered in by a new medium with psychedelic tendencies? Could it bring psychedelic values and ideas into mainstream thinking? [An RS Encore Presentation]  (more)

The great American modernist poet William Carlos Williams said that the job of the artist is to move the century forward an inch or two. I thought of that while watching this film. (more)

Inception is James Bond meets Orpheus in the underworld meets Billy Pilgrim. Now, die Gedanken sind nicht frei; on the contrary, even your unconscious is a commercial for the corporation. (more)

Two films of recent vintage, Moon and District 9, very different on their surface, seem to be carrying the same disturbing message underneath. (more)

When staring into the eyes of media, I often wonder who or what beckons me. James Cameron said that the Na'vi are like our higher selves. Connecting to this realm is like a purification dream. (more)

Whether you believe we're at the dawn of a new age or simply responsible for cleaning up a big mess, the questions are equally relevant: what are you afraid of, and how is that fear limiting you? (more)

From Roland Emmerich's "quiche" people -- a mispronunciation of "K'iche'" that sounds like an item on a brunch menu -- to Mel Gibson's blood-thirsty savages, Hollywood contributes to a centuries-old tradition of misrepresenting indigenous peoples and their myths. (more)

James Cameron's blockbuster movie Avatar, which fetched a billion dollars in its first two weeks, will reach millions of viewers. Can it help us to see that our forest-eating machinery and our savage romance are two sides of the same compulsion to co-opt and consume?   (more)

"In terms of the intentions of the extraterrestrials... to me it's very clear what it could be: to let us know that we're not the only intelligence." Director Suzanne Taylor discusses her new film What On Earth?! Inside the Crop Circle Mystery. (more)

2012 the movie is not about consciousness transformed or reborn. To get at the film's deeper meaning, we have to take it for what it is: an out-of-body flight through the corporate dream world's restless vision of collapse.  (more)

In this interview, artist and filmaker James Spooner talks about race, identity politics, 10-speed bikes, his documentary AfroPunk, and the movement that followed it.  (more)