Naqoyqatsi
starring: Marlon Brando, Bella Donna, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bhagwan Mirchandani
directed by: Godfrey Reggio
directed by: Godfrey Reggio
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936220926
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 9308
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Miramax Home Entertainment and Oscar(R)-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, TRAFFIC, 2000) present NAQOYQATSI ('Life As War'), from filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, in collaboration with composer Phillip Glass, whose original score features renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In this cinematic concert -- the concluding film of the Qatsi Trilogy preceded by the critically acclaimed KOYAANISQATSI ('Life Out Of Balance'), and POWAQQATSI ('Life In Transformation') -- mesmerizing images reanimated from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, chronicle the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic, and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope, fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique artistic experience that reflects Reggio's visions of a brave new globalized world.
Amazon.com:
Whether your intellect is completely engaged or passively detached, any viewing of Naqoyqatsi is likely to provoke a fascinating response. You can view it as a magnificent, visually stimulating music video (as critic Roger Ebert suggested you should), or in context as the third and most unsettling film in director Godfrey Reggio's 'qatsi' trilogy, each titled from the Hopi language, and preceded by Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi ('Life out of Balance' and 'Life in Transformation,' respectively). 'Life as War' is the translation of this film's title, and Reggio's theme is not one of conventional warfare, but of daily life as warfare in the age of rapidly evolving technology. The entire trilogy views humankind as a blight on the pristine nature of Earth, but here the theme is taken to its inevitable extreme: a constant flow of new and archival images--manipulated with solarization, digital enhancements, thermal effects, 2-D and 3-D animation, etc.--combine to convey athletic and military regimentation, culminating in the doomsday flowering of missiles, rockets, and all varieties of nuclear weaponry. The cumulative effect, when combined with Philip Glass's mesmerizing score (his best of the trilogy, with cello solos by Yo-Yo Ma) is one of doom-laden portent, but, as Stephen Holden observed in the New York Times, the film is also arrestingly beautiful as it weaves its hypnotic, apocalyptic spell. For those who wish to delve further, Reggio, Glass, and editor/visual designer Jon Kane provide valuable insight in a bonus panel discussion. --Jeff Shannon
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- Powerful but not easy....I think this film pays the price of being the third in a sequel and the existance of the two easier ... Read More
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- Instantly ForgettableAfter seeing Koyaanisqatsi in an art house many many years ago the images & sounds re-played in ... Read More
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- There is something better out thereThis ain't "Fantasia"
I like--to some degree--the music of Philip Glass. (But apparently ... Read More
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- MayhemMayhem, missiles, madness and bombs in high contrast black and white or supersaturated, highly tinted colour. ... Read More
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- I liked the first two better.I got real excited for this one and had my hopes up for something amazing. Its ok, and my friends gave it a less ... Read More
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