Kundun
Kundun is a 1997 American epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese.
It is based on the life and writings of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet.
Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, a grandnephew of the Dalai Lama, stars as the adult Dalai Lama, while Tencho Gyalpo, a niece of the Dalai Lama, appears as the Dalai Lama's mother.
The film according to Roger Ebert was" made of episodes, not a plot" and he gave the film three stars out of four.
Stephen Holden of" The New York Times" called the film" emotionally remote" but praised its look and its musical score.
Richard Corliss praised the cinematography and score as well.
Barry Norman, chief film critic at the BBC opined that" Kundun" was both beautifully and intelligently made.
" Kundun"( སྐུ་མདུན་ in Tibetan), meaning" presence", is a title by which the Dalai Lama is addressed.
" Kundun" was released only a few months after" Seven Years in Tibet", sharing the latter's location and its depiction of the Dalai Lama at several stages of his youth, though" Kundun" covers a period three times longer.
Khashyar Darvich
Khashyar Darvich is a documentary film producer and director best known for directing a documentary film about the Dalai Lama, "Dalai Lama Renaissance," which is narrated by actor Harrison Ford.
He got his start in Colorado where he produced other documentaries and broadcast programs, including the documentary about an eccentric Colorado mountain town entitled "Black Hawk Waltz:
Tales of a Rocky Mountain Town," which was broadcast on the History Channel.
In 2007 he released "Dalai Lama Renaissance," which was an official selection at over 35 film festivals and won 12 awards.
He then followed it up with A Revolution Of Ideas, a companion piece to his Dalai Lama documentary.
In 2014 Darvich's Wakan Films released the final two films in his Dalai Lama series: Dalai Lama Awakening, a poetic re-visioning and extended cut of his first award winning film and Compassion In Action, both of which have already had extensive tours in the UK and Scotland.
Darvich is currently in post-production on a number of other documentaries including The Silence Of Happiness, an inspirational film about deaf children in Sri Lanka; "The Matrix Of Compassion", an epic story of intertwining lives spanning 50 years and multiple continents; and an as yet Untitled Project about the Peace Pilgrim, an American woman who walked over 50,000 miles for peace during the latter part of the 20th century.
He graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Eugene Lee (designer)
Eugene Lee( born 1939) is an American set designer who has worked as the production designer for" Saturday Night Live" since the show's premiere in 1975.
Lee has been resident designer at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, since 1967.
Lee attended Beloit Memorial High School, has BFA degrees from the Goodman School of Drama of the Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Yale Drama School and three honorary Ph. Ds.
He has won Tony Awards for Bernstein ’s" Candide", Sondheim ’s, and" Wicked", as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design.
Other New York theatre work includes" Amazing GraceAlice in Wonderland The Normal HeartAgnes of GodRagtimeUncle VanyaRuby SunriseBounce", and" A Number".
Film credits include Coppola ’s" Hammett", Huston ’s" Mr. North" and Malle ’s" Vanya on 42nd Street".
Lee lives in Providence with his wife, Brooke, where they raised their two sons.
His work on the musical" Candide" at the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn and on Broadway are chronicled in great detail in Davi Napoleon's book,. The book also describes his work on" Slave Ship" and other productions at the Chelsea.
Lee is also a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2006.
Dalai Lama Awakening
Dalai Lama
Awakening is a 2014 feature- length documentary film, produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich and narrated by actor Harrison Ford.
With over 30 minutes of additional footage and a new score, the film is a Director's Cut and revision of" Dalai Lama Renaissance", the award- winning 2007 documentary.
The film presents the journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama.
The film features Dr. Michael Beckwith(" The Secret"), quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami(" What The Bleep Do We Know"), radio host and author Thom Hartmann, author Vicki Robin, philosopher Vandana Shiva, biologist Elisabet Sahtouris, social scientist Jean Houston, and others.
The film opened in the U.K. in 2014 and played to sold out audiences during its 2015 tour of the U.S. and the Canada.
Gyalo Thondup
Gyalo Thondup, born c.1927, is the second- eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama.
He often acted as the Dalai Lama's unofficial envoy, and was involved in various political controversies around the Tibetan diaspora.
Louis Malle
Louis Marie Malle( 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
His film" Le Monde du silence" won the Palme d' Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony; the award was instead presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau.
Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards.
Malle is also one of only four directors to have won the Golden Lion twice.
Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood, and he produced both French and English language films.
His most famous films include the crime film" Ascenseur pour l'échafaud"( 1958), the World War II drama" Lacombe, Lucien"( 1974), the romantic crime film" Atlantic City"( 1980), the comedy- drama" My Dinner with Andre"( 1981), and the autobiographical film" Au revoir les enfants"( 1987).
Dalai Lama Renaissance
Dalai Lama Renaissance is a 2007 feature- length documentary film, produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich, and narrated by actor Harrison Ford.
The film documents the Dalai Lama's meeting with the self- titled" Synthesis" group, made up of 40 Western" renaissance" thinkers who hope to use the meeting to change the world and resolve many of the world's problems.
The meeting took place at the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India in September, 1999.
The film won 12 awards, was the official selection in over 40 international film festivals, and played in cinemas in over 100 cities in the U.S., as well as other countries in the world like Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
It was also released in theaters in Taiwan in June 2009.
The film received positive front page Chinese language press in Taiwan.
However," The People's Daily" presented an article criticizing the film.
Among the Western thinkers who meet the Dalai Lama are: quantum physicist Fred Alan Wolf, social scientist Jean Houston, and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center church in Los Angeles, Dr. Michael Beckwith.
Through the film the audience sees the clash of egos that soon developed among the members of the group and their assistants, as each member attempts to mold the meeting to fit their own personal expectations.
Ultimately they discover they can not hope to change the world until they undergo a personal transformation.
Assisted by the often light- hearted musings of the Dalai Lama, each member comes away uniquely changed by their experience.
The film includes original music by Tibetan musicians.
In 2014 Wakan Films released the Poetic ReVision and Director's Cut of" Dalai Lama Renaissance."
Entitled" Dalai Lama Awakening" the film contains over 30 minutes of additional footage and a completely new score.
Compassion in Action
Compassion in Action( aka Dalai Lama's Compassion In Action) is a documentary film produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich.
Released in 2014, the film is a deeper exploration of the ideas presented in the award- winning" Dalai Lama AwakeningCompassion In Action" is the final inspiring journey with the Dalai Lama and the" renaissance" thinkers featured in the award- winning" Dalai Lama Renaissance" and" Dalai Lama Awakening" films.
The film features innovative thinkers such as Dr. Michael Beckwith(" The Secret"), quantum physicist Fred Alan Wolf, radio host and author Thom Hartmann, revolutionary social scientist Jean Houston and others.
The film was 2nd billing to" Dalai Lama Awakening" during a successful 36- city double- feature tour in the U.K. and played to sold- out audiences during a 100- city double- feature tour of the U.S. and Canada.
Vanya on 42nd Street
Vanya on 42nd Street is a 1994 film directed by Louis Malle, written by Andre Gregory, and starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore.
The film is an intimate, interpretive performance of the play "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov as adapted by David Mamet.
14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama( religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup; 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lamas are important monks of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism, which was formally headed by the Ganden Tripas.
From the time of the 5th Dalai Lama to 1959, the central government of Tibet, the Ganden Phodrang, invested the position of Dalai Lama with temporal duties.
The 14th Dalai Lama was born in Taktser, Amdo, Tibet.
He was selected as the tulku of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1937 and formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in a public declaration near the town of Bumchen in 1939.
On 26 January 1940, the Regent Reting Rinpoche requested the Central Government to exempt Tenzin Gyatso from the lot- drawing process of the Golden Urn to become the 14th Dalai Lama.
The request was approved by the Central Government.
His enthronement ceremony as the Dalai Lama was held in Lhasa on 22 February 1940 and he eventually assumed full temporal( political) duties on 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, after the People's Republic of China's incorporation of Tibet.
The Gelug school's government administered an area roughly corresponding to the Tibet Autonomous Region, just as the nascent PRC wished to assert control over it.
During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama fled to India, where he currently lives as a refugee.
He has traveled the world and has spoken about the welfare of Tibetans, environment, economics, women's rights, nonviolence, interfaith dialogue, physics, astronomy, Buddhism and science, cognitive neuroscience, reproductive health, and sexuality, along with various topics of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist teachings.
A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, the US Congressional Gold Medal in 2006," Time" magazine named him one of the" Children of Mahatma Gandhi" and his spiritual heir to nonviolence.

Question: Do both films: Vanya On 42Nd Street and Dalai Lama Awakening have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no