[Buddha-l] Filming silence in a Carthusian monastery

[jkirk]

Film: Die grosse stille, by Philip Groening.

For one review:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/11/wmonk11.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/11/ixworld.html

I went to the filmmaker's website, but most of the links on it don't work. 
More silence?

The April 16th New Yorker has a short bit about a Carthusian (exclaustrated) 
member, Fr. Halloran, whom Film Forum hired to answer questions after 
screenings of the film.

I wrote to see if I can get a review copy. Considering that Buddhists often 
observe Noble Silence, and occasionally (in the west) join monasteries, and 
that the quotidian world is saturated by loud noise, most egregiously in 
movie theaters, if one is not perpetually plugged in--I figured this film 
might be of interest to list folk.

Hope it comes to a theater here soon. Viewing a DVD isn't nearly as good as 
seeing a film in a movie theater, especially the art film theater here (in 
Boise, where I live), where you can actually ask them to turn down the sound 
a bit, please, and they will do it.

Joanna