https://mrqe.com Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:13:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/i-am-m100089577/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/i-am-m100089577/ I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: whats wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywoods leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, The Nutty Professor, and Bruce Almighty. However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/rumi-poet-of-the-heart-m100059084/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/rumi-poet-of-the-heart-m100059084/ In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died, the grieving Rumi gripped a pole in his garden, and turning round it, began reciting imagistic poetry about inner life and love of God. After Rumi’s death, his son founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, the whirling dervishes. Lovers of Rumi’s poems comment on their power and meaning, including religious historian Huston Smith, writer Simone Fattal, poet Robery Bly, and Coleman Barks, who reworks literal translations of Rumi into poetic English. Musicians accompany Barks and Bly as they recite their versions of several of Rumi’s ecstatic poems.

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