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[Jana]

It is an awesome psych-study in genius...coming from privilege he didn't have the moral vigor of his poet friend Carles Fages de Climent...who died at the hands of the fascists. ...this loss may have been instrumental in turning Dali's light even brighter...he had the sense to not die for the revolution but to live for the restitution. His friend was thus an idealist, while Dali was a surrealist.
His emotional upheavals were associated with the impossibilities of the times...todays impossibilities may be more subtle and hidden...Dali would have flourished today...the artworld needs a genius of his caliber to bring authenticity and the edge back...it would be interesting to study Dali in terms of the word compromising and uncompromising.
http://video.answers.com/salvador-dali-biography-119827582

[Jana]

The Fall (2006) Set in the 1920s, director Tarsem Singh's visually lush drama like a combo of Escher, Dali and Michael Parks on steroids. Just watched it, breathtaking, riveting...one of my all time favorites. Absolute florish of the imagination.

[Justin]

It took me awhile to make the connection there... yeah, the fall was fantastic. Thanks for reminding me, I will have to watch it again.

95% of movies irritate me so I just end up re-watching that 5% over and over again to keep things juicy, light and on fire... it's delicious food—simply. How rare it is for a flick to pin me down and blow me wide open. The performance of my body-mind was far from optimal after recently watching 'The Last Airbender'—there was basically a drop in my overall heart coherence that left me feeling like a touch-deprived alley cat. One enters a hyper-suggestible altered state in less than one minute behind a screen. What kind of hypnosis do I want to be in tonight?

[Jana]

Hollywood has been taken over by the corporations in the same way the government has.
Perhaps a spiritual senesence has set in and it is dying from cancer.
Or it might just be a temporary period of soullessness until they start using technology for bodymind and soul instead of against it.
The whole idea of movie making and its purpose needs revamping.

Gattaca
Logan’s Run
1984
Brave New World
THX 1138
Equilibrium
Blade Runner
I Robot
Surrogate
Lawnmower Man
They Live
Æon Flux
The Island
Matrix
Idiocracy
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Legend
V for Vendetta
Planet of the Apes
Serenity
Twelve Monkeys
The Trial
Minority Report
Clockwork Orange
Brazil
Metropolis (1927)
Pi
Avalon (2001)
The Beach 
Architettura
Bioshock
Das Haus der Regierung
Foxtrot
Future By Design
Goliath Awaits 
Landmarks of Faith: The Shakers
Light Years
Mile Zero
Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict
Odyssey 5
The Mist of Avalon

[Justin]

Inception was ceremonial and hyper-reflective for those ready to commit to that degree of self-confrontation. The same could be said about The Fountain.

In another direction, The Kids Are All Right was very human.

The rapid over-taking of 3D increases suggestibility one hundred-fold. I really hope to see this revamping soon.

[Jana]

I just saw I am Love...
Interesting play of exile, escapee, patriarchy, tradition, collapse of values, free will...gorgeous backdrop of Italiana...I liked the clean lines and textures.
Pissed her shyness and inexperience made her dally with her son's friend the chef, when logically she should have taken a lover apart from family life. Interesting that her closest son died over her affair, and she still chose to leave the rest of her children.
This is the kind of story, that could only be true.

We have to pull our energy and attention out of the fall of the human race...its not a story worth watching.

[Michael]

Thanks for the recent movie recommendations guys.  Some good ones!

[Jana]

Tarsem Singh of The Fall...has a new one coming out next year called Immortals...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802248/

[jimtzu]

i just watched The Fall for the first time over the weekend.  i really liked it.  so i'll look forward to seeing the new one Immortals

i'll second the appreciation for all the suggestions of good movies!

[Jana]

Excellent article on the nature of simulation and reality and depth and truth in postmodernism.
http://www.slideshare.net/mickgoogan/04-baudrillard-the-matrix-and-blade-runner-simulation-and-hyperreality

[Jana]

Speaking of beauty. Aronofsky's Black Swan was spectacular...a heady romp through a paranoid, schizophrenic, hallucinogenic dream world of internal conflict between light and dark. However, the Queen Swan never broke out of her internalized drama even in death...at the height of her dance, it was still all about her. So she did break through her neurosis in order to fly, and yet because of the lack of ecstatic relationship, she never was queen of her flock. In the end the good merely acquiesced to the bad in the service of art. Is this a comment on our current state of degeneracy in the arts (and sciences, politics, economics, law, education, medicine etc...)

[Justin]

Thanks for the movie suggestion.

Thin Red Line remains on my top 5. Check out the trailer for 'the tree of life', May 2011... written & directed by Terrence Malick. Gave me shivers.

[Jana]

It is interesting that this morning before going to the movie I had used my big foot massager on my back for the first time...and could not get enough into the "holding" where the wings attach...notice that in both the white and black swan...there was an emphasis on where the wings of flight attach...the root of personal agency and power in a world dying of competition...and yet seen through the eyes of the ultimate designer...the competition too is love. Incredibly provocative movie, but it needed another 1/2 hour of serious dancing.

Heart warming tragic love story...Modigliani...on netflicks...just watched it...fantastic, very real...classic painter's tale.

[Michael]

Thanks again Jana for the movie recommendations.  Watched Swan last night and liked.  Will check out Modigliani.

[Jana]

The movie also portrayed the harsh reality of sexism, ageism and beautyism in ballet (arts. Sexual extortion in systems of power in general...and the pact with the devil some make in order to get ahead in corrupt systems. Note the mother had f*d the director and thus given birth to the Queen Swan whom she held captive as an extension of her own talent (ego). However the mother both accused the girl of bonking the director, and was jealous of her virtue and her talent, even trying to prevent her from succeeding.

It is interesting that the morning before going to the movie I had used my big foot massager on my back for the first time...and could not get enough into the "holding" where the wings attach...notice that in both the white and black swan...there was an emphasis on where the wings of flight attach...the root of personal agency and power in a world dying of competition...and yet seen through the eyes of the ultimate designer...the competition too is love. Incredibly provocative movie, but it needed another 1/2 hour of serious dancing.

Perhaps focusing on the shoulder "flight" girdle as a daily practice will help us crack through the subconscious castration of our spiritual wings. I imagine that once this is actively engaged "liberation" from the contortions and perversions of human social reality becomes ever more empowered...taking the hold off our energy battery and allowing our will to function more forthright with less resistance and deviation...as we ourselves would be more "defined" and ready for "action." When we fail to differentiate and make a stand for ourselves in the world...when we fail to show up, we are so butted around by our own reactivity to phenomena that it is hard to gain the "ground of will" or presence of mind in order to "take self-determined flight."

"Other" cannot know us unless we show ourselves as we truly are...in the fullness of our spiritual expression. While our wings remain clipped we are “restrained,” and our complicity in being “less than we are” reduces or puts an end to our individual privileges, rights and direction. If we have not initiated and carried through with our own spiritual flight, this aborts our free will and consequently inhibits the mature development of our sovereign daemon’s destiny. Resulting in the perversion and contortion of our “life” and the suppression of our breathing, oxygen use and the entire metabolism of consciousness in the body…through which we digest the inner/outer realities and form our trajectory through life. Some methods for releasing the shoulder girdle include: Primal Release Pose, Cardio Muscular Release, Upright Walking, Kunlun, Arm Shaking/Wing Release; wood chopping exercise, boxing and martial arm movements, pressing arms against a door frame, push ups, pull ups, simulated bird-flight and hugging.

BREAKING LOOSE—Terrence McKenna, in his outstanding “Psychedelic Society,” talk on youtube said…Human decency or “liberation” is the resonance or anticipation of a perfected future. We transform by attempting to live as far into the perfected future as possible…a visionary flight of the Heart.  We can will the perfected future into being by becoming a microcosm of the perfected future, and by no longer blaming outside people, institutions or hierarchies of control. He said that only through the marriage of the masculine (Sky-Father) and the feminine (Earth-Mother), can the alchemical perfection of a new form of humanity arise, and that it is incumbent on us to personally “act” in this regard. And that we acquire this higher order of freedom by virtue of applying attention to the “Art of Being”…beyond our geographically localized grids of fate that make us what we are, but don’t want to be. In the externalization of the soul and the internalization of the mind - through a triumph of imagination and self-evident gnostic truth, we can create a new language to express a new reality beyond the fascist material flatland and create a sacralized secular humanist society on earth for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp5IlodrPj4&feature=related

THE FLIGHT OF ANIMA (ANIMATION)—The anima and animus are described by Jung as elements of his theory of the archetypal collective unconscious. In the unconscious of the male, it finds expression as a feminine inner personality or “anima.” Conversely in the unconscious of the female it is expressed as a masculine inner personality or “animus.” The anima represents the totality of the feminine psychological qualities (recessive/receptive) while the animus signifies the totality of the masculine psychological qualities (dominant/agentic). Jung said that "the encounter with the shadow is the “apprentice-piece” in the individual's development...while encounter with the (receptive) anima is the “masterpiece.” Jung viewed the anima process (of integrating the recessive right-brain function) as being the source-field of creative actualization.