Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us

[Played on Sept. 11 as part of AARP's Movie for Grownups and available on YouTube and other VOD platforms.] Brie Larson narrates this captivating, educational, entertaining, highly technical, 81-minute, 2019 documentary dominated by phenomenally stunning time-lapse photography and amazing computer graphics that examines the magical world of fungi and mushrooms, gives a history of the last 50 years or so of research into fungi and its medicinal potential to address otherwise intractable medical disorders, and consists of insightful commentary by mycologists (such as Paul Stamets, Gary Linkoff, and William Padilla-Brown), journalists Eugenia Bone and Michael Pollan, University of Arizona professor Andrew Weil, biomimicry inventor Jay Harman, Johns Hopkins psychologist Bill Richards, University of California psychology professor Charles Grob, social worker Mary P. Cosimano, county commissioner Art Goodtimes, ethno pharmacologist Dennis J. McKenna, University of British Columbia Suzanne Simard, palliative care specialist at NYU Langdon Center, Michael Bossis, Johns Hopkins neuroscience professor Roland Griffiths, Johns Hopkins psychiatry and behavioral science professor Bob Jesse, and University of Wisconsin professor Nicholas V. Cozzi.
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