meetings with remarkable men

The adventure leads them through the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas to a monastery where Gurdjieff learns self-expression through dancing and body movement, a technique he taught his followers many years later.

Not a movie for everybody. 29 out of 41 found this helpful.

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It means that there are other things, apart from the everyday cares, which start to be visible, if you really come to really understand the meaning of the movie and not superficially looking at it as movie entertainment or out of curiosity. Meetings with Remarkable Men is the adaptation of part of the autobiography of George Gurdjieff, a mystic who lived between the 2nd half of the 19th century and the 1st half of the 20th century. 3 out of 9 found this helpful.

It's a pity he misused it, though, for the aggrandizement of his wounded ego, feeding on the adulation of unwary sheep who were at his beck and call and in awe of him) can inspire such extreme adherence and credulity. 16 out of 68 found this helpful. I found it to be a remarkable film, and, at the end, inspiring and uplifting.

Meetings with Remarkable Men Commentary by Terry Winter Owens MANY HAVE SOUGHT TO KNOW the sources of G. I. Gurdjieff's teachings and to uncover the facts of his life.
I had big expectations about this film, but it turned out to be a huge disappointment. A must for anyone on the spiritual path.

and, b)the helpless and hopeless directing of Peter Brooks- contrasted to his other efforts-like the Mahabarata- suggest him to have been following and demonstrating one of the Gurdjieff Work Maxims' Man is Asleep'.

20 out of 32 found this helpful. This is a beautifully shot and composed film that is made up mainly of set pieces of small vignettes and amazing central Asian scenery.

Was this review helpful? Ultimately, it is a boring, soporific movie that rambles around with no clear commitment to its subject matter.

The main actor has a Russian accent that is distracting and also inconsistent with the actor who plays him as a younger man, and he doesn't even look "young" like Gurdjieff is supposed to be during this time period - he looks middle-aged. This is a movie for those seeking their truth.

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We usually dislike what we are not accustomed to, without paying attention to the fact that embracing differences in a positive way, we enlarge and enrich our soul. Why watch a movie from 1979? 26 out of 30 found this helpful. 8 out of 9 found this helpful.

What is a real sacrifice? The story itself is interesting to those who enjoy stories about spiritual searches. �eº2��W�a�9��vT�\IQ}�b��c��6��QB��n,b��[�Л�Jr k@Ir)��ڨ� G|��l, View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1979 Vinyl release of Meetings With Remarkable Men (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on Discogs. Meetings with Remarkable Men [G. Gurdjieff] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. ” (Download it here: Link) From the foreword of G. I. Gurdjieff’s “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”: Reprint of Edition. It becomes very disappointing as Gurdjieff lastly reaches the monastery of the Sarmoung Brotherhood, a place high in the Asian mountains where he is taken blindfolded, and where he supposedly obtained arcane knowledge from this secret society for his life project. Also, it makes us more open minded to understand and look the differences between people both in the way of life and personal characteristics. Gurdjieff, detailing his search for the information that would serve as base for the development of the so-called Fourth Way to enlightenment (a path that does not have a defined step-by-step itinerary, but that must be found and built by each individual), resulted in an interesting film that starts beautifully with a mysterious and fascinating sequence, illustrating a competition in the mountains in which the award is given to the musician that can make the mountains "react" in harmony to the music notes.

32 out of 38 found this helpful. But the acting is so stiff and wooden as to be almost unwatchable and you can tell Mr Brook, the director, is primarily a theater director as each scene is so over-directed it's almost painful to witness.

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For twenty years, the spiritual teacher Gurdjieff journeyed through Central Asia and the.