Product Details

• Actors: Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Athol Fugard, Warren Mitchell, Natasha Parry
• Directors: Peter Brook
• Writers: Peter Brook, G.I. Gurdjieff, Jeanne Salzmann
• Producers: Michael Currer-Briggs, Robert Watts, Stuart Lyons
• Format: Full Screen, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Parabola
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1997
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0930407377
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #207,398 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch a Remarkable Movie, May 16, 2005

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G P Padillo "paolo" (Portland, ME United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meetings With Remarkable Men [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I first saw this film when pretty young - its effect was devastating. It was on a double bill with Zeffirelli's epic film about St. Francis, "Brother Son, Sister Moon." (I saw both films for a dollar!) Not knowing anything of the movie beforehand, I went for years wondering what was the name of this remarkable movie, before finally stumbling upon it at a video store whilst visiting friends in another city.

Repeated viewings show it to be, while a bit of its period, still holding up. There is such a sense of the spiritual here entirely capturing the excitement of the beginning of Gurdjieff's journey.

There is much throughout the film to give one time to pause and reflect, but then the film ends with what is now well-known as the 10 minute dance/movement sequence and Brook knew what he was doing ending the film with this. I remember my heart nearly exploding in the theatre a sense of spiritual energy and awe from others in the theatre who were reacting the same as I.

I remain a bit perplexed as to how and why this amazing, enlightening and enriching film has not yet been transferred to DVD. Hopefully, when that happens it will receive the "Criterion treatment" - with interviews and commentary by Peter Brook, a good widescreen transfer and cleaned up sound from its VHS incarnation.

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Touches something very deep, June 28, 1999

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This review is from: Meetings With Remarkable Men [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I saw this film years ago in the theater and have bought the video just so that I could watch it again and again. I am most drawn to the remarkable music and dance sequences. As a student of music and spirituality, I can say that these are amazing art that reach beyond intellect, beyond conscious awareness, to speak to something very central. I weep every time I see it. Watch this movie with an open, listening soul.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A quiet, well-paced account of an important search., June 3, 1999

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Eric Bickford "Erbick" (Oxnard, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meetings With Remarkable Men [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film wisely avoids trying to provide deep answers. Instead it shows the intense and somewhat obsessed questioning of one well-known philosopher/seeker. I think many of us fantasize about taking the search for spiritual understanding to the same apex that Gurdjieff did -- to ignore career and the common pleasures to become part of a special group dedicated to the cultivation of higher values. It was a pleasure to follow vicariously as Gurdjieff searched and found.