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MOVIES
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This is just a brief list of our favorites. To dive in more completely visit Stephen Simon’s Spiritual Cinema web site
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1. What the Bleep Do We Know!?
by Arntz, Chasse, Hoffman
A new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences, while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden knowledge she doesn't even realize she has asked for.
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2. Groundhog Day
by Harold Ramis
One of the funniest comedies ever. This film plays with the mystery of time on a day that is a time of mystery.
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3. Crusades
by Terry Jones (one of the Monty Python blokes)
Learn what really happened back then. Who really started the war between the Christian and Moslem world???
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4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
by Steven Spielberg
A profound film about alien intelligence and its evolution well beyond ours.
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5. Resurrection
by Daniel Petrie
Ellen Burstyn experiences the after-life for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmities. While most people simply accept her gift, her lover (Sam Shepard) becomes mentally unbalanced and dangerous because she does not place the healings within a religious context.
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6. Phenomenon
by Jon Turteltaub
The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intelligent and puts the intelligence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.
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7. Field Of Dreams
by Phil Alden Robinson
If you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true.
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8. The Matrix
by Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves), discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating humanity while its' life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world. He joins like-minded Rebel warriors Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss) in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix.
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9. The Truman Show
by Peter Weir
In this movie, Jim Carrey is Truman, a man whose life is a fake one. The place where he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. All his friends and the people around him are actors who play their roles in the most popular TV-series in the world: The Truman Show. Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life, and has no idea about how he is being exploited. Until one day... he finds out everything.
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10. Lost Horizon
by Frank Capra
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians, crash land in the Himalayas and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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