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marthalovelycat
Reviews
Evo (2002)
An experimental documentary on Evolution
Digital film is a studious and arty reading of the question of evolution, includes footage of a lecture by Dr. Richard Dawkins, the articulate firebrand and defender/promoter of the theory of evolution.
The film moves really well, and segues between various insights and meditations on the subject. Not really a film I would recommend for those who haven't a flexible mind because the director is very demanding...it's not a popcorn date movie!
Once you have seen it, you know that when you see it again, a couple of weeks later, you'll get something else from it. some people, myself included, are really happy that films like this get made because it shows you the potential of cinema to explore serious issues in a highly imagistic and intellectual manner.
Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light (1996)
Intriguing Analysis - a bit dated but still highly relevant
This film is an intriguing abstraction and discovery of Huxley's work.
Counter to the highly antagonistic review of someone else on IMDb this work is not at all made to exploit the Huxley name...it was actually made with the permission of Laura Huxley - Huxley's last wife and with the approval of Dr. Jean Houston, (who also features prominently in the work) - an important pal of Aldous Huxley and one who supplied him with test material (if you get my drift).
How do I know? It says so in the film and I read an interview with the filmmaker.
It is a radical work and not for everyone. if you want to see the biography channel version - you might have to wait awhile. Huxley was a radical and only a radical could do justice to his work so radical in fact that this work will probably never get shown on US channels.
I completely agree that the computer image work in the film is cheapo looking, I guess what was cool years ago seems pathetic to us. Luckily that stuff is not a major part of the film.
The DVD version that is out also includes a half hour interview section with Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, Ph.D. (Biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley, 1954). Shulgin is pretty famous in the circles of psychopharmacology research.
Essential subversive stuff and you're not going to find that at Walmarts.