Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305292852 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 630529285X Label: Strand Home Video Manufacturer: Strand Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Strand Home Video Release Date: May 16, 2000 Running Time: 145 minutes Sales Rank: 28421 Studio: Strand Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 13, 1998
Amazon.com: Perhaps the most widely read philosopher of the 20th century, Ayn Rand has delighted and infuriated people of all ideologies and, like it or not, has helped to create the political realities we deal with every day. With Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life you can follow her life story, from her childhood in the turbulent years of revolution in her native Russia to her great success as a popular writer and deep thinker in the United States. This comprehensive look at a fascinating woman uses interviews with friends and colleagues, family photos, clips of her speaking, and great moments from the films she wrote to portray a complex, passionate person with the brains to articulate her ideals and the guts to stand up for them. Trying to get work in 1930s Hollywood wasn't easy for such a rabid anti-Communist, but Rand persisted and the tales of her life in the theater, her lifelong relationship with actor Frank O'Connor, and her midlife career change from novelist to political philosopher are both inspiring and dramatic, just as she'd want them to be. --Rob Lightner
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Rating: - Ayn Rand movie suffers from a lack of objectivity
The memorable, and ultimately appalling, thing about Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life,the new film biography of the right-wing novelist-philosopher, is that it is perfectly true to its subject. Just as Rand, who was born in 1905 in Leningrad as it was convulsed by revolution, declared that she had not changed her ideas about anything since the age of 2½, this reverential documentary presents her thoughts as uncontested truth.
The evangelical tone is set by filmmaker Michael Paxton, quoted in the press material as saying that he first found Ayn Rand when he was an adolescent trying "to find a book that would answer all of my questions and give my life meaning." A Sense of Life contents itself with interviewing her friends and acolytes. It acknowledges that she was much criticized, and even considered a crank, but her critics don't appear onscreen and their views are not explained.
Rating: - More than a glimpse
This documentary regarding Ayn Rand offered a real insight to her life. Very well put together, and a presentation that I will definitely go back and watch several times...or definitely when I am in an individualist, objective state of mind!
Rating: - The objectivism of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand wrote some of my favorite books: The Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged.
Born at the beginning of the 20th Century Russia, in the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Ayn Rand started to read from the early age of six. By the age of nine, it is said that she knew she wanted to dedicate her life to writing and to philosophy.
Russia of the times was focused in collectivism, something Ayn Rand despised. After reading the works of Victor Hugo her character starts to shape. She lived through the Kerensky Revolution and in 1917, through the Bolshevik Revolution. From the start, she denounced communism and when the revolutionaries are victorious and start the painstaking process of taking away property, confiscating the pharmacy her father owned, she decides Russia is not the country for her. The family undergoes poverty and lack of food. While at school, during a class of American History, Ayn ... Read More
Rating: - A true philosophical meaning of life and the condition of the human soul
A true philosophical meaning of life and the condition of the human soul
is all I can say about this exquisite and grand minded intellectual account of Ayn Rand's "A sense of life". A must see that will shake your world and tickle your soul. It's as profound as diving into the answers towards purposeful living.
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