Ram Dass - Fierce Grace
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 8, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Mickey Lemle | |
Music by | George Harrison & Grace Slick | |
Composition by | Teese Gohl | |
Subject: | Ram Dass | |
Director of Photography: | Buddy Squires |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
The film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry, but Ram Dass: Fierce Grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight.
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Austin Chronicle
Rating: 3/4 --
Whether or not Ram Dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness, Fierce Grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one.
Los Angeles Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
The film presents a brief but intriguing biography of its subject.
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Seattle Times
Rating: B+ --
Inspirational biopic on Ram Dass.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
At least Ram Dass seems to have signed his own version of the Hippocratic Oath...
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New York Magazine/Vulture
...An ingratiating and comprehensive portrait of the widely admired spiritual leader...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: B- --
Aimed at a New Age audience, but its subject's sincerity and gentle, self-deprecating nature translate well to a general audience.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Product Description:
Documentary filmmaker Mickey Lemle (COMPASSION IN EXILE: THE STORY OF THE 14TH DALAI LAMA) opens his fascinating biopic of spiritual leader Ram Dass with two strikingly contrasted images--archival footage from 1969 showing the long-bearded, blissed-out guru intoning on the role of a yogi, and the present-day Dass, older and debilitated, struggling to lift his legs out of a car. These images reflect the film's dual mission: to illuminate Ram Dass' pivotal role as a spiritual guide in 1960s America, and to follow him on a new quest after suffering a stroke. Dass (formerly Richard Alpert) was a Harvard psychology professor, who with Timothy Leary spearheaded the movement to explore LSD's mind-expanding capabilities. Along with interviewing Dass' contemporaries, Lemle uses compelling archival footage of Dass' days at Harvard, the acid-tripping community at Millbrook, and his life-changing experience in India with guru Maharaj Ji. Layered between images from the guru's heyday, Lemle uses touching footage of Dass shot over a two-year period, as he struggles with the physical and emotional fallout from his stroke. The "fierce grace" of illness sets Dass on a new spiritual path and like his previous forays, makes for fascinating and insightful viewing.
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Product Info
- UPC: 795975103435
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