"Sweetie" I've not seen, but your thumbs up for the beginning of "Holy
Smoke" made me YouTube it. Yes, that shaktipat trickery is quite a fun
scene, but the movie didn't live up to the opening promise for me.
I recall one film reviewer on the TV here calling Holly Hunter "a
completely pointless act
Lord, yes, I forgot about that one! Holy Smoke was a complete mess from
start to finish.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
>
> After all, we are talking about the director who made arguably the
> worst film ever made about cults, "Holy Smoke." In it, she managed
> the almos
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
>
> Of course folks here would love "Sweetie" with it's obvious nod to TM
> being that one of the characters is a TM teacher.
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098725/
>
> Actually I like "Holy Smoke" and have the DVD. I thought she did a
>
Of course folks here would love "Sweetie" with it's obvious nod to TM
being that one of the characters is a TM teacher.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098725/
Actually I like "Holy Smoke" and have the DVD. I thought she did a
pretty good job of depicting shaktipat at the beginning.
Holly Hunter
Even though I like Holly Hunter, and I even loved the combination
of her and Jane Campion in "The Piano," I have become so incredibly
disappointed by Campion's work since that I'm not really willing to
give her another shot. Besides, I'm unconvinced of her ability to
make movies (or TV) about "spir