Koyaanisqatsi [VHS]
by Godfrey Reggio
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Director: Godfrey ReggioEdition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 87 minutes
Release Date: 1999-01-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Polygram Video
Studio: Polygram Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Koyaanisqatsi [VHS]
Movie Review: Kakapoopsie...
Summary: 1 Stars
This has to be the worst waste of time and money I have ever experienced. The title is supposed to mean 'life out of balance', but in what language? The first film Koyaanisqatsi is a hotch potch of timelapse footage of mountains (yawn), and trees (super yawn) and cityscapes. The second, Powaqqatsi is more about people doing dirty work in the third world.
The music does not in anyway match the visuals which are lazy to say the least. Timelapse footage is like the stop motion animation such as Morph or Wallace and Gromit, but at least animators move things about and make an effort to entertain, these guys have just left a camera running pointing at a tree or a mountain for a day, if they were even there to supervise at all!
As mentioned, the music is really grating, a pseudo modern classical attempt at a score but is really just an endless repetition of violin loops. The theme is by someone called Phil Glass, a glass probably filled with strong cider judging by the lack of musical direction. I watched it again with the sound down and played Shakira's first album over the top, she seems to suit the visuals far better, and she sings about mountains.
Koyaanisqatsi is the better of the two as there are more colours and variety, Powaqqatsi has too much orange tinge to it and also one example of a green face near the end.
Considering this film is supposed to have been made in the 80's, it has no car chases or explosions and looks decidedly 1970's. It seems like a collection of similar incidental footage bundled together and packaged as a timecapsule of our changing environment and lifestyle where in reality it just looks like a poor version of Dallas or GTA IV's opening credits.
If timelapse footage is your thing check out 'Trapdoor' (a parody of the life of Fred West) or the 'Private Life of Plants', although the latter has amateur naturist Dave Attenborough trying to make sense of the vegetative nonsense.
In summary then, avoid these DVD's, or borrow them and make your own mind up, but be prepared for the most disappointing 180 mins of your life.
Movie Review: Powerfull scenes
Summary: 4 Stars
What to say about this ..? As background, I can tell you that I am in the late 70's listened a lot of Philip Glass, and then even Einstein On The Beach and took note of the theme, which of course there is doom the novel On the Beach by Nevil Shute.
Koyaanisqatsi is a powerful but in many respects confusing history the destruction of which man becomes too great for himself and threatens to destroy the world in its zeal for efficiency.
Powerful scenes and superb music offering this movie on.
Movie Review: PLEASE HELP!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Would the Council of Shadowy Media Overlords please fast-track the remastering to Blu-ray of this awesome, beautiful, mind-expanding film? Movie Review: unforgettable images
Summary: 5 Stars
unforgettable images from a past that is still present, notes for a future to be avoided, great soundtrackMovie Review: A Classic in Modern Filmaking
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie years ago and never forgot it. I was delighted to find it on DVD. The DVD is clear, the stereo sound track excellent. The movie itself? Timeless and awe inspiring. This is a "thinking person's" movie and tells us a lot about ourselves. The music by Philip Glass is just wonderful. 5 STARS!
Summary of Koyaanisqatsi [VHS]
First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary from 1983--shot mostly in the desert Southwest and New York City on a tiny budget with no script, then attracting the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and enlisting the indispensable musical contribution of Philip Glass--delighted college students on the midnight circuit and fans of minimalism for many years. Meanwhile, its techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots (alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass's reiterative music (from the meditative to the orgiastic)--as well as its ecology-minded imagery--crept into the consciousness of popular culture. The influence of Koyaanisqatsi, or "life out of balance," has by now become unmistakable in television advertisements, music videos, and, of course, in similar movies such as Fricke's own Chronos and Craig McCourry's Apogee. Reggio shot a sequel, Powaqqatsi (1988), and is planning to complete the trilogy with Naqoyqatsi. Koyaanisqatsi provides the uninitiated the chance to see where it all started--along with an intense audiovisual rush. --Robert Burns NeveldineGeneral Video
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