Movies and the meaning of life
Subtitle: the most profound films in cinematic history
By: by Wayne Omura
Publisher: Bäuu Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Winter Park, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780982046784
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Film criticism; Existentialism in motion pictures
Description: A guide for film lovers and those who are interested in discovering the enigma of living life through movies, the author describes films that he considers to be the most evocative of the human condition.
Table of contents: title: The existential universe. The trial; Kafka; Woman in the dunes; Heart of darkness; Steppenwolf; I heart Huckabees; title: The search for understanding. Faust; Solaris; My dinner with André; Pi; Stalker; Siddharta; title: The quest for self-realization. The Wizard of Oz; Alice's adventures in Wonderland; Kung-Fu: the pilot for the series; Alice through the looking glass; Walkabout; title: Self-conscious patterns of meaning. The Muppet movie; The purple rose of Cairo; The hypothesis of the stolen painting; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead; Genealogies of a crime; Gabbeh; title: Imagination and illusion. Fail safe; 84 Charing Cross Road; Harvey; Big fish; Dreamkeeper; title: Virtual reality. Total recall; eXistenZ; The thirteenth floor; Vanilla sky; title: Memory and identity. Dark city; Suture; Last year at Marienbad; Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind; After life; title: Damaged brains. Angel heart; Memento; The man without a past; Awakenings; The miracle worker; title: Acts of creation. Lust for life; Fahrenheit 451; The agony and the ecstasy; Amadeus; title: The meaning of death. The seventh seal; Chushingura; The sixth sense; Ikiru; title: Paradise and transcendence. Xanadu; Lost horizon; Meetings with remarkable men; Northfork; Jacob's ladder; A very old man with enormous wings; Waking life.