‎Altered States, a list of films by scathandra • Letterboxd Some of the video sequences from the flotation tank trip outs look a bit dated, obviously, but like 2001's Beyond the Infinite sequence, that just makes it exponentially cooler in a kind of retro psychedelic way.William Hurt delivers a hell of a performance here, foreshadowing Goldblum's maverick genius Seth Brundle in Fascinating subject after fascinating subject explored through one of my - Unfortunately for this movie the recent gentrification of ayahuasca means it’s automatically gonna play as comedy, even farce, for being so mystified by something Upper East Siders can now easily do at yoga retreats upstate over a long weekend. For the /tv/ Film Club.. Altered States can best be described as Ken Russell's own 2001; his film is an odyssey that takes the main character, Eddie, back to the origins of humanity.It also contains a lot of trippy lightshows. Viagens Alucinantes, Der Höllentrip, Odmienne stany swiadomosci, Другие ипостаси He manages to radiate the perfect amount of arrogant intelligence and obsessive madness a role like this needs.Even though there were difficulties between Russell and the screenwriter on whose novel this is based, Russell really manages to…Does anyone have an isolation tank? work in progress. "It is the Self, the individual Mind, that contains immortality and ultimate truth ... What the hell is not religious about that? Review by Steve Moyle Pro.

This list is getting long so I moved some sections to…Every film that has ever been nominated for an Academy Award in any category. Today on “Why Drugs Are Bad” we present the film Altered States…William Hurt’s film debut is one hell of a trippy and wild ride.
it is unbelievably goofy, sometimes nauseatingly so especially when characters are talking to each other (the romance stuff in this really makes me dry heave), but ya know sometimes its goofiness can be really fun and creative. "The movie follows Eddie's experimentation with sensory deprivation chambers and psychedelic drugs, as he attempts to reach enlightenment and find God.

Blend it all together and let it sit in the sensory deprivation tank for an hour and 42 minutes, and out comes Ken Russell's Altered States. A list of 111 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Altered States (1980), The Holy Mountain (1973), Yellow Submarine (1968), Speed Racer (2008) and Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé (2007).

During this trip, I was inside a friend’s huge mountain house that I had never visited before and I became caught between life and death. just read an oliver sacks book and you'll be much happier in my fockin opinionThis would actually explain why Joe Rogan is so weird.one of those movies that i'm never quite sure how seriously its asking me to take it. I'm trying to go ape mode.Well if there's one thing drug nerds teach you (and especially the cinematic ones) it is to take some notes! this movie seems like it thinks it's getting at something big when really it isn't saying much of anything. Yes, that is actually a thing that can happen. A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. Metacritic ID. 0 references. I haven't seen most of these movies.…Movies made by auteur directors with a very arthouse sensibility, that happen to be genre movies (e.g. ?Recently, I've become aware that certain films are able to transcend the medium by being completely self-assured in their atmospheres…A list that is trying to contain every horror film made that is not lost and is found on the…Just a list of some pretty cool movie posters on the LB database. I like the sci-fi story aspect just sort of lost interest in it halfway through. A (never-ending?) "It is the Self, the individual Mind, that contains immortality and ultimate truth ... What the hell is not religious about that? A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. When I was 19, I had a really bad trip that resulted from me unknowingly taking a much larger quantity of acid than I realized. The movie is a headrush of complex mystical and scientific ideas which…Take Cronenberg's 'The Fly', then throw in a pinch of 'A Field in England', and two dashes of '2001 A Space Odyssey'.

It is basically a mad scientist's story rifled with deeply philosophical themes.
"If you are into mind-altering substances and enjoy listening to philosophical pseudoscientific jargon, then this is the movie for you!…I can't believe it took me so long to get round to this one. It's in our own minds. "The movie follows Eddie's experimentation with sensory deprivation chambers and psychedelic drugs, as he attempts to reach enlightenment and find God. That finale was a mesh of screensavers and I guess love overcomes genetic regression?Si tu novie no te redime del abismo en el momento de terror que es el inicio de la vida, realmente te ama?? Overalls + chambray shirt + cardigan is a powerful lookseveral glimpses of hell yeah but mostly just yeah - worth watching only for the incredible special effects and production design, and of course a bearded bob balaban.

horror films, heist…Replicated film poster designs. other than that i found the story to be very uninteresting and reaching, with no real defined "concept" other than "stuff is crazy when you think about it". Altered States. I haven't seen most of these movies.…Movies made by auteur directors with a very arthouse sensibility, that happen to be genre movies (e.g. Altered States, from 1980, uses a geometric sans-serif typeface, a slightly modified ITC Avant Garde Gothic. These characters now come off as purposefully annoying, blinkered by their own little sociocultural bubble of effortlessly won Harvard jobs, which only makes their lust for the ancient, the wild, more fascinating to watch. The letters invade, becoming a lens for the scene … Hurt's screen debut is very good.