More on The Dhamma Brothers

Our friend The Brainy Gamer points us to this piece at PopMatters on the new documentary The Dhamma Brothers, which opened this past Friday at New York City's Cinema Village. (It will also play in Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle in the coming weeks.) I blogged about the film, which documents a ten-day meditation retreat undertaken by thirty-six prisoners at a maximum security prison in Alabama, last November. The PopMatters piece includes the following endorsement of the film from Sister Helen Prejean, author of the essential Dead Man Walking:

The stories of The Dhamma Brothers ring with the truth and power of their experiences, and offer the hope for renewal and rehabilitation within a dismal and punishment-oriented correctional system. It gives you hope for the human race.

Here is a trailer for the film:



And while we're on the subject of movies about Buddhism, the great Phil Ryan over at the Tricycle Editors' Blog reminds us that How to Cook Your Life will be released on video soon. I blogged about this film last September: it's Doris Dörrie's new documentary about Zen Master Edward Espe Brown and his intertwined teachings on the Dharma and food preparation.