Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) has been called the “godfather” of the human potential movement. In this film, Castaneda’s closest apprentices—in addition to contemporary practitioners of spiritually-oriented psychology—discuss his quest to become real.
Bud Wiggins
"Había una vez un joven príncipe cuyo padre, el rey de Oriente, lo envia a Egipto para encontrar una perla. Pero cuando llega, el pueblo le sirve una taza. Al beberla, se olvida de que era el hijo de un rey, se olvida de la perla y cae en un profundo sueño." El padre de Rick (Christian Bale) solía leerle esta historia cuando era un niño. En la actualidad, siendo Rick ya adulto, el camino hacia Oriente se extiende ante él...
Screenplay
Un cuento moderno sobre la obsesión por la popularidad. Stafford Weiss es terapeuta y escribe libros de autoayuda. Tiene una mujer sobreprotectora, un hijo antigua estrella de la TV en rehabilitación y una hija que acaba de salir del psiquiátrico. La principal cliente de Stafford es una famosa actriz, a punto de interpretar el papel que hizo su madre en los años 60.
Self
Riffing on the topics covered in his brilliant "best selling, award winning" 1996 book My Dark Places, Ellroy takes us on a tour of his hometown both past and present in this short, entertaining film.
Writer
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son and her discovery of his affair. Gina is a masseuse - blithe, solipsistic, scheming to steal the energy of Hollywood players. She frequently refers to her dead sister Wanda, kidnaped by their father. Phyllis, sexually abused by her father when a teen, addresses her son Eric. She's a producer, working on remaking Pasolini's "Teorema." As the project falls apart, so does she. All three hum or sing, "You made me love you."
Novel
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son and her discovery of his affair. Gina is a masseuse - blithe, solipsistic, scheming to steal the energy of Hollywood players. She frequently refers to her dead sister Wanda, kidnaped by their father. Phyllis, sexually abused by her father when a teen, addresses her son Eric. She's a producer, working on remaking Pasolini's "Teorema." As the project falls apart, so does she. All three hum or sing, "You made me love you."
Director
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son and her discovery of his affair. Gina is a masseuse - blithe, solipsistic, scheming to steal the energy of Hollywood players. She frequently refers to her dead sister Wanda, kidnaped by their father. Phyllis, sexually abused by her father when a teen, addresses her son Eric. She's a producer, working on remaking Pasolini's "Teorema." As the project falls apart, so does she. All three hum or sing, "You made me love you."
Novel
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Writer
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Director
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Executive Producer
In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
Writer
In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
Executioner
Cuando el despiadado asesino en masa Horace Pinker es electrocutado por sus horribles crímenes, un pacto con el diablo le transforma en algo incluso más aterrador, un demonio sobrecargado capaz de poseer el cuerpo y la mente de los demás... y está decidido a seguir con su escalada de violencia.
Associate Producer
Una antigua estrella televisiva, famosa por una telecomedia, ve complicarse su regreso al mundo de la televisión a causa de la muerte de su marido. Su lujosa mansión de Beverly Hills se llenará de amigos, vecinos y familiares, los cuales no tardan en empezar a enfrentarse los unos con los otros, mientras el fantasma del difunto marido se niega a marcharse del lado de su bella esposa.
Story
Una antigua estrella televisiva, famosa por una telecomedia, ve complicarse su regreso al mundo de la televisión a causa de la muerte de su marido. Su lujosa mansión de Beverly Hills se llenará de amigos, vecinos y familiares, los cuales no tardan en empezar a enfrentarse los unos con los otros, mientras el fantasma del difunto marido se niega a marcharse del lado de su bella esposa.
Screenplay
Una antigua estrella televisiva, famosa por una telecomedia, ve complicarse su regreso al mundo de la televisión a causa de la muerte de su marido. Su lujosa mansión de Beverly Hills se llenará de amigos, vecinos y familiares, los cuales no tardan en empezar a enfrentarse los unos con los otros, mientras el fantasma del difunto marido se niega a marcharse del lado de su bella esposa.
Dinner Guest
Una antigua estrella televisiva, famosa por una telecomedia, ve complicarse su regreso al mundo de la televisión a causa de la muerte de su marido. Su lujosa mansión de Beverly Hills se llenará de amigos, vecinos y familiares, los cuales no tardan en empezar a enfrentarse los unos con los otros, mientras el fantasma del difunto marido se niega a marcharse del lado de su bella esposa.
Pianist
Virginia, una dependienta de una tienda de libros usados, está obsesionado con las novelas de terror, en particular con una titulada "I, madman". El libro cuenta la historia de un siniestro doctor que mutila partes de sus víctimas para usarlas como maquillaje en un loco intento de conseguir el amor de la persona que ama. Pronto Virginia descubrirá que la historia no es ficticia, es más, el demente está comenzando a cruzar la delgada línea entre las palabras escritas y la realidad.
Schuyler
La diversión empieza cuando los hermanos Sam y Max Grimm, heredan La Academia Mortuoria Grimm, propiedad de su excéntrico tío Willard. Desgraciadamente esta repentina racha de buena suerte tiene una pega: antes de tomar posesión de la multimillonaria herencia, los hermanos tienen que graduarse en su propia academia mortuoria. Max y Sam se matriculan y pronto se darán cuenta de que la escuela está dirigida por un par de extravagantes estafadores, uno de ellos el Dr. Truscott, fanático del sexo, se ha enamorado locamente del cadáver de una guapa joven, y Mary, una avariciosa rubia, está empeñada en seducir al Doctor y casarse con él. Cuando Mary y el Doctor intentan impedir que los hermanos se gradúen, estos traman un espantoso e ingenioso plan para asegurarse que la academia será suya para siempre.
Story
Años después de los incidentes, Nancy se ha convertido en una psiquiatra especializado en terapia del sueño, pero Freddy también sigue en activo, y comienza a parecerse en los sueños de varios de los pacientes. Nancy los reúne a todos en busca de una forma de parar al monstruo.
Screenplay
Años después de los incidentes, Nancy se ha convertido en una psiquiatra especializado en terapia del sueño, pero Freddy también sigue en activo, y comienza a parecerse en los sueños de varios de los pacientes. Nancy los reúne a todos en busca de una forma de parar al monstruo.
Uncle Frank
El verano ha comenzado y Hoop McCann ha terminado el instituto. Su gran sueño es ser admitido en la Escuela de Arte y convertirse en escritor de cómics. Su amigo George le ha invitado a pasar las vacaciones en la isla de Nantucket, junto a su hermana y, durante el viaje de ida, recogen a una atractiva joven, Cassandra, que se encuentra metida en problemas. Este será el comienzo de unas vacaciones inolvidables donde no faltarán las aventuras y el amor...
Al Kennedy
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
Screenplay
A soap opera parody along the lines of Young Doctors in Love (1982).
Writer
"Mother Tongue" is the story of a high-profile relationship between an Academy Award-winning actress (Josie Ho) and her much-younger partner, who has yet to find his true career path. The actress had a baby when she was very young, a daughter whom she was forced to give away because she wasn't financially independent and wanted her little girl to have a better life. But now that she's older, she realizes that it's time to find her long-lost daughter, now in her twenties, and hires a detective to find her. The mystery of what happened to her provides the film's drama and tension; also, the actress' partner doesn't know about her search--and the urgency and distraction of the search begins to erode their relationship, until he suspects that she's having an affair. By the end, the actress reunites with her daughter and salvages her marriage.