One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage vs The Great Chess Movie
One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for The Great Chess Movie). The Great Chess Movie is the shorter watch at 1h 19m compared with 1h 21m. The Great Chess Movie is the older of the two (1982 against 2019). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage
The Great Chess Movie| One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage | The Great Chess Movie | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 1982 |
| Length | 1h 21m | 1h 19m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Edward A. Burger | Camille Coudari, Gilles Carle |
| Main cast | – | Pascal Rollin, Anatoli Karpov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Fernando Arrabal, Boris Spassky |
Synopsis
One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage
ONE MIND is an immersive cinematic meditation on Zen monastic life in China, where a communion of nature, meditation, and labor reveals a carefully crafted way of life that reflects the very wisdom it seeks to cultivate.
The Great Chess Movie
In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.
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