Movie Reviews
Syriana
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Reveals the violence, corruption, and political chicanery involved in maintaining our addiction to fossil fuels.
Rumi - Turning Ecstatic
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A documentary tracing a Canadian woman's journey to find out more about Rumi's incredible impact upon our world.
North Country
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A compelling drama set in a 1989 Minnesota mining community where the misogyny and chauvinism in the workplace will make your blood boil.
William Sloane Coffin: An American Prophet
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Inspiring documentary on the life and ministry of a progressive Christian minister.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Friendship of four teenagers bonded together by mutual caring and a pair of jeans.
Crash
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A crash course in unmasking the racial and class divisions in American society that make every stranger into a potential enemy.
The Interpreter
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Salutes openness and respect for life as antidotes to the use of violence to deal with the uncertainty and insecurity of our times.
Millions
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An endearing, charming, creative, and spiritually uplifting movie about miracles, money, saints, and the divine love that will not let us go.
Les Choristes
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A heart-warming French film about a kind and gifted music teacher who makes a difference in the lives of his students in a boy's reformatory.
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A heart-affecting drama fashioned with love, care, and creativity.
The Sea Inside
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
One of the best films of 2004 with a bravura performance by Javier Bardem that is both tender and poignant.
I Heart Huckabees
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
I Heart Huckabees is a playful metaphysical comedy that embraces the spiritual uplift of our connections with others amidst the muck of human separation that characterizes our present-day adventures.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring, set on a floating raft monastery in Korea, is a luminous mediation on the wisdom of Buddhism and one of the best films of the year.
Big Fish
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Big Fish will draw out the story-loving child in you who still enjoys exploring dreams, fantasies, and larger-than-life adventures.
Monsieur Ibrahim
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Monsieur Ibrahim is a spiritual adventure story about a Sufi grocer who passes on the wisdom of his path to a lonely adolescent boy filled with a yearning for something more.
Under the Tuscan Sun
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
MYSTERY (transformation, place, love, family, hope, women. )
Under The Tuscan Sun (Touchstone Pictures, 09/03, PG -13 - sexual content, language)
Under The Tuscan Sun is a tonic for those who believe that special places can nourish and nurture us, setting the stage for our spiritual transformation, even after the worst heartbreak.
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion is an extraordinary and passionate documentary about the plight of the Tibetan people whose religion remains one of the wonders of the world with its wisdom on nonviolence, mind training, and compassion.
Moscow on the Hudson
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Moscow on the Hudson gives patriotism a good name with its plentiful emotional and comic fireworks.
A Far Off Place
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A Far Off Place celebrates the wisdom of indigneous peoples and the fine spiritual friendships they offer to us if we open up to a different way of being.
Mystic Pizza
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Mystic Pizza is a wacky and wonderful movie about three youg women friends and their misadventures with love and sex.
The Princess Bride
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
The Princess Bride is an appealing, bittersweet fairy tale set in a farawy world of "once upon a time."
Winged Migration
Frederic A. Brussat
Winged Migration is a glorious celebration of birds in flight, conveying the beauty and the amazing feats of strength and endurance of their long distance journeys.
Holes
Frederic A. Brussat
Holes, a hoot from start to finish, is one of the most dramatically inventive and emotionally satisfying children's films to hit the screen in many a moon.
Adaptation
Frederic Brussat
Adaptation is the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites.
The Quiet American
Frederic Brussat
The Quiet American is a timely and formidable screen adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about the terrible aftershocks of a zealous young American's idealism and subterfuge in Saigon in 1952.
Naqoyqatsi
Frederic Brussat
Naqoyqatsi is a bold and irreverent non-narrative film that speaks its truths with spellbinding images and the entrancing music of Philip Glass.
City of Joy
Frederic Brussat
City of Joy shows how two men experience the enhancement of their lives by caring, commitment, and community.
Microcosmos
Frederic Brussat
Microcosmos is an innovative documentary about the teeming world of bugs in a French countryside meadow.
Baraka
Frederic Brussat
Baraka is an extraordinary non-narrative film that enables us to see with our eyes and feel in our flesh that the healing of self and the healing of the planet and inextricably linked.
My Girl 2
Frederic Brussat
My Girl 2 affirms one teenager's coming of age as she expresses her competence and her caring.
The Secret of Roan Inish
Frederic Brussat
The Secret of Roan Inish is a lovely and lyrical drama about the spiritual longing for home and the deep meanings that can be conveyed by family stories.
Baran
Frederic Brussat
Baran is a soul-stirring Iranian film depicting the alchemical process whereby an enemy can be transformed into a loved one.
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Searching For Bobby Fischer revolves around chess but really focuses on those precious values that make life worth living.
Waking Life
FAB
Waking Life is a visionary animated film of deep play that is stylistically innovative and spiritually rich in content.
Shirley Valentine
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Shirley Valentine explores the wild strategy a middle-aged Liverpool matron comes up with to love just being herself.
Our Song
Frederic Brussat
Our Song is an extraordinary coming-of-age movie about three girls living in a poverty-stricken neighborhood whose daily wanderings and intimate dramas during the last weeks of summer reveal their deep reserves of hope.
Defending Your Life
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Defending Your Life, with witty writing and fine performances by the ensemble cast, make this film a total delight.
My Dog Skip
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
The End of the Affair
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Pi
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Yakoana The Voice of Indigenous Peoples
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Women's Bodies, Women's Minds The Mind Body Connection
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat