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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
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: 7179
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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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.
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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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Rating:  -
I think this film pays the price of being the third in a sequel and the existance of the two easier-to-watch predecessors.
I think the music in this one is wonderful, the images are not as beautiful as the natural ones of Koia but equally strong - almost hypnotic at times. The logical thread is difficult to follow and it either needs repeted viewings or some external help. I couldn't get it.
What in my opinion spoiled it a bit are the recurrent similiarities with the previous movies (the ... Read More
Rating:  -
After seeing Koyaanisqatsi in an art house many many years ago the images & sounds re-played in my mind for days. But this latest installment is instantly forgettable.
What this film feels like is an Epcott ride; a kind of tourist's vision of the technological age, the information age, or the digital age, or all three conflated into one big amusement ride.
Postmoderns argue that we are bombarded with so much information that we no longer have the ability to make heads ... Read More
Rating: -
This ain't "Fantasia"
I like--to some degree--the music of Philip Glass. (But apparently I don't like 89 minutes of it at once.)
I like--to some degree--the flash of images--even the flash of discordant image--and the thoughts these images provoke.
But, mostly through it, I was rooting for Mickey Mouse to appear and hungering for the triumphance of "greatest" classical hits.
This won't be viewed again; "Fantasia" will.
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Mayhem, missiles, madness and bombs in high contrast black and white or supersaturated, highly tinted colour. A dark and unpleasant collage of images, not particularly imaginative, that almost left me with a headache. Occasionally visually striking, so 2 stars rather than one. But overall - disappointing.
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I got real excited for this one and had my hopes up for something amazing. Its ok, and my friends gave it a less rating then I did. I do appreciate what they are trying to do with this film even though I have no idea what they are trying to do in this film:) A good conversation piece though like the rest of the series.
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