Pov announced its 2012 season today, celebrating 25 years on PBS with a lineup that includes such acclaimed nonfiction films as "Nostalgia for the Light," "The City Dark" and "Give Up Tomorrow." The award-winning documentary series, which has attracted some ire from filmmakers by moving last year from a Tuesday to a more competitive Thursday night at 10pm slot, will kick off with Jennifer Fox's "My Reincarnation" on June 21st. Here's the line-up, with descriptions courtesy of Pov: June 21: "My Reincarnation" by Jennifer Fox Filmed over 20 years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox, "My Reincarnation" chronicles the epic story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi. As Norbu rises as a teacher in the West, Yeshi, recognized from birth as the reincarnation of a famed Buddhist master, breaks away to embrace the modern world. Can the father...
- 3/22/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Title: My Reincarnation Directed By: Jennifer Fox Written By: Jennifer Fox Cast: Yeshi Silvano Namkhai, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 10/17/11 Opens: October 28, 2011 For a guy who is angry that the Chinese government took over Tibet in 1959, causing him to flee to Italy, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu seems awfully fond of giving Chinese fortune-cookie advice. A teacher, excuse me, A Master, whose classes bring out scores of Westerners who are looking for a Buddhist alternative to Christianity and Judaism, Norbu—at least from what we can see from Jennifer Fox’s “twenty-years-in-the-making” documentary–provides little insight to this tubby fellow’s popularity. His son, Yeshi Silvano Namkhai—who kvetches that...
- 10/24/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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