Barn’s burnt down
now
I can see the moon.
—Masahide

Movies have the ability to touch deeply into one’s psyche/soul/spirit. The following few movies have touched different parts of my being.

• As It Is in Heaven – about living in the heart (In Swedish, subtitled).
• Before the Rain – an intense portrait of human reactions in a senseless war
• Birdy – a touching story about deep friendship
• Breaking the Waves – beautiful, heartbreaking, awe full
• Choose Me – the archetypal Lover
• Close Encounters – the E.T. at the end of the extended version touched that sensitivity in myself
• Excalibur – very powerful archetypal movie for men
• Faraway So Close – the sequel to Wings of Desire
• Field of Dreams – father/son stuff – I shook at the end of this movie
• Ghost – I remembered what it was like to die
• Jacknife – about commitment
• Kiss of the Spider Woman – powerful story of personal transformation
• Kundun – beautiful, spiritual relating of the life of the Dalai Lama
• Ladybird, Ladybird – very real, disturbing story of a distressed mother caught in the welfare
• Last of the Mohicans – the only movie I ever shouted out loud in the movie theater
• Last Temptation of Christ – depicts the spiritual struggle within each of us (for those who choose to take the journey)
• Man Facing Southeast – what is sanity?
• Moonlight and Valentino – “good grief”
• The Piano – Into the mind of a deaf person
• Resurrection – where true healing comes from
• To Live – a gut wrenching masterpiece about a family in revolutionary China
• The Tin Drum – touching, moving story about a young boy’s despair in Nazi Germany
• The War at Home – a moving story about a son who returns home from Vietnam with PTSD
• Whole Wide World – a touching story about love and mental illness
• Why has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East – you have to be in a meditative state to watch this one!
• Wings of Desire – we are all fallen angels