Ringo Starr joined the rest of his Beatles bandmates in Rishikesh, India, in 1968. He was the first to leave, but the short stay was worth it. Ringo’s gift from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is one he still uses. The Beatles weren’t sentimental about presents — they gave gifts from fans to hospitals — but their drummer has a special place in his heart for the Maharishi’s contribution to his life.
(l-r) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison | Cummings Archives/Redferns Ringo Starr got a gift from Maharishi that he still uses — a mantra ‘no one can take away’
Visiting Maharshi’s ashram in India came with benefits and drawbacks for Ringo. Transcendental meditation offered a pathway to nirvana and bliss, but staying in a jungle thousands of miles from home presented a challenge.
The drummer’s luggage for the trip included hundreds of cans of baked beans.
(l-r) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison | Cummings Archives/Redferns Ringo Starr got a gift from Maharishi that he still uses — a mantra ‘no one can take away’
Visiting Maharshi’s ashram in India came with benefits and drawbacks for Ringo. Transcendental meditation offered a pathway to nirvana and bliss, but staying in a jungle thousands of miles from home presented a challenge.
The drummer’s luggage for the trip included hundreds of cans of baked beans.
- 4/30/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The novel, based on a Radio 4 play, is preceded by a quote from Bunyan. The film, in an effort to similarly evoke nested layers of Englishness, has Jim Broadbent. If one digs further, and the earth is rich, Harold and Fry are both of Nordic origin, army-ruler, seed. There's a Rex and a Queenie, more authority, a Maureen, variously diminutive of Mary and amongst others from the Irish 'star of the sea' from the old Egyptian Miriam. There are others, another version of 'Beloved' in David, but there we start to enter the realms of the biblical.
Not a living document, necessarily, but the mixture of state religion and national identity that inflects Anglicism and the English, the speculative fictions of proverbs and Just So, that cloying confection of jam and Jerusalem. Through it travels Harold Fry, an unlikely pilgrim. If one tries to one can readily shift its vowels.
Not a living document, necessarily, but the mixture of state religion and national identity that inflects Anglicism and the English, the speculative fictions of proverbs and Just So, that cloying confection of jam and Jerusalem. Through it travels Harold Fry, an unlikely pilgrim. If one tries to one can readily shift its vowels.
- 4/27/2023
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jim Broadbent’s Harold goes on a 600-mile quest in Rachel Joyce’s sad and quirky story that is undermined by its implausibility
Despite being impeccably acted, sincerely intended and often beautifully shot, there is something basically unsatisfying in this quirky/sad movie, adapted by Rachel Joyce from her own Booker-longlisted novel; it is undermined by issues of tone and plausibility connected with that word “unlikely” in the title. The film presents partly as a sentimental oldie heartwarmer, but also asks us to believe in it as something more serious and even tragic: an emotional investment made harder by the unreality of what we’re seeing.
Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton play Harold and Maureen, a retired couple living a life of quiet boredom and desperation in Devon. Out of the blue, Harold gets a letter saying that an old work colleague of his is now in a cancer hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Despite being impeccably acted, sincerely intended and often beautifully shot, there is something basically unsatisfying in this quirky/sad movie, adapted by Rachel Joyce from her own Booker-longlisted novel; it is undermined by issues of tone and plausibility connected with that word “unlikely” in the title. The film presents partly as a sentimental oldie heartwarmer, but also asks us to believe in it as something more serious and even tragic: an emotional investment made harder by the unreality of what we’re seeing.
Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton play Harold and Maureen, a retired couple living a life of quiet boredom and desperation in Devon. Out of the blue, Harold gets a letter saying that an old work colleague of his is now in a cancer hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- 4/26/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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