Product Details

• Actors: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye, Emmanuel Montes
• Directors: Bernt Amadeus Capra
• Writers: Bernt Amadeus Capra, Floyd Byars, Fritjof Capra
• Producers: Adrianna A.J. Cohen, Klaus Lintschinger, Robin Holding, Stephanie Moore
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (99 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302670306
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,571 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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

Product Description

"A film for passionate thinkers."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

140 of 146 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mind Walk is a gift to be savored time and time again. . . ., June 11, 2000

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"joyce_walters" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mindwalk [VHS] (VHS Tape)

At first glance, this video may seem a bit dry. After all, how intersting can it be to listen to a poet, politician and physicist talking about quantum physics and worldviews, right? The answer to that question lies deep in your heart, soul and consciousness. If you watch this movie, you cannot help but view the world through an entirely different lens.

Each member of our family has enjoyed the richness of Mind Walk several times. Our children range in age from 13 to 20 and we find this is a wonderful way to open their minds to the challenges of clinging to a Cartesian worldview. Sharing the movie as a family sparks amazingly deep conversations about the important issues that face our generations. We have noticed a quickening in their understanding of the holistic view of nature, man and the universe. Our two oldest children have used Mind Walk to write papers for school on the emerging worldview. What a gift to learn about this open and hopeful way of viewing the world at their age! My husband and I only wish we had learned of this in our teens rather than waiting until we were adults to fully understand the interconnectedness of all living things - and that all of nature is enchanted and alive.

I recommend this video to you, your family, your friends and acquaintances. It is a gift to your soul and the souls of others - from the soul of the world.

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A movie to be experienced with your whole being..., November 17, 1999

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"tmalates" (Lakewood, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mindwalk [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I too have watched this one multiple times. Music by Phillip Glass, poetry by Pablo Neruda, physics by Fritjof Capra... The interplay among the diverse personalities of poet (philosopher), politician (pragmatist), and physicist (intellectual) is beautifully orchestrated and wonderfully inclusive. The illustrative presentations of extremely complex subjects, as well as the "inconclusiveness" of the film's "message" is what draws you back time and again. We are left wiser in our understanding, but it is left to each of us to figure out what it means for us on a personal level. Just as with the characters of the film, you are left feeling as if you have truly reached a "Turning Point" in your own life. It is truly a movie for the mind, but watch it with your whole heart and soul.

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can be seen 25 times and it isn't enough!, January 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mindwalk [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Mind Walk is a movie made in the shadow lands of the cinematic market place that creates a monumental and intricate summation of where this world is in terms of nature and human intervention. This film can can be mined again and again on multiple levels for thought provoking excursions. It is exactly as the title says...a Mind Walk. The acting is absolutely superlative...and there is "real" acting from first frame to last in a very controlled, steady pace that goes from scattered generalties of Western thought down to literally a sub-atomic introspection and then back to a new, generalized view of EVERYTHING and EVERYBODY that is called Systems Theory. What makes the 'walk' all the more fun is the effort of the poet and politician to press the scientist, in an unrelenting and mentally rigorous manner, to tether her theory to the here and now. The three principles of this 'afternoon of conversation' on ancient Mount St. Michel, do this quite well to the subtle backdrop of a typically repetitive Philip Glass sound track that adds another thread that links this single afternoon, just as the tide coming back in around the small island completes a cycle.

This movie engages your mind and your soul. YOU also 'walk' away with something...a new point of view.

It is no wonder main stream corporate America is giving this whole idea of Systems Theory a second look. To regard any moderate to very complex issue these days without this vision is like failing to show up.

If you crave violence and lust for mindless fiction, then this movie would be your ultimate torture test. Don't go there. On the other hand, if you are searching for a quiet, poetic journey that covers the most sublime and momentous issues of our age, then buy this movie NOW! I now look at Mt. Saint Michel as an outpost of our salvation as a species. This movie in a most deliberate manner, like a piece of baroque music by Vivaldi, soars with great imagination but in an orderly fashion. Contrived? Yes. But so what when the music is this wonderful!!!

And by-the-way/...After seeing this movie, I seached Amazon.com and found this great, concise book on this way of thinking called The Systems View of the World by Ervin Laszlo, Hampton Press).