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Summary: MEANING OF LIFE
Review: Sometimes you think the meaning of life, sometimes the huge difference of cultures, sometimes the magnificient nature while watching this movie. Ron created a masterpiece. The sound and visual quality is perfect. Just take a bottle of ice-cold beer and enjoy that movie. For those who fed up with the meaningless movies like "charlie's angels" etc...
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Summary: Cup of Dreams
Review: I watched this film and felt like I had been drinking a tea cup of my dreams.A prophetic and powerful experience; it effects you only if you breathe. If [Jalal Al-Din] Rumi wrote a modern-day cinematic poem, this might be the essence. When I see the snow monkey in Nagano Springs, I remember something long forgotten. [see also Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi; *almost* as fulfilling.]
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Summary: Visualiser
Review: Overwhelmingly beautifull picture from the most beautifull spots on this planet mixed with passion. When you watch this movie, you will be amazed for not only how beautifull this planet can be, but also how beautifull they can make pictures like this, using extraordenary camera's and tricks. Someone who doesn't like the music, just put there own music on during the film. When U don't like the movie, I think you don't like this planet you are on.
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Summary: What a pity!
Review: I saw it in the theatre and bought the laser disc version. It is a movie that can be watched repeatedly, usually with friends. You can imagine my great disappointment in having to return my Christmas present - the DVD version of the film - to the place of purchase because of its poor quality. It is unsharp, excessively high in contrast and low in color saturation. What is more, the image flickers in certain scenes, especially those of skyscapes, giving one the impression that they had been shot through the rotating blades of a helicopter. This must be one of the rare instances where the DVD is inferior to the laser disc.This is a great pity, for it is a film that will continue to entrall, surprise, amaze, sadden, etc for a long time to come.I will purchase it when a new remastering becomes available.
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Summary: Open your Imagination
Review: I remember buying this film on a total whim, never heard of it before. When I got home and threw it in the VCR, I was amazed. Remarkable directing, it's amazing how Fricke got those shots, 70mm cameras are not little easily hand held cameras. More movies should be this way. This movie does not put everything infront of you. It lets the viewer, which most Hollywood movies don't want us to do, use our imagination and inspire wonder. It's humbling, beautifull and just down right incredible with music from Dead Can Dance as a plus. If you like the arts and using your imagination buy this movie.
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Summary: The Baraka Experience
Review: This film is a must purchase for anyone who seeks to expand their consciousness globally and spiritually. If every human watched this film, our children would grow up in a more peaceful world. With cinematography that surpasses the farthest dream of a visual experience Fricke has created a mythological tale in which our purpose as humans, the inner-relatedness of the universe to every intricate part, and the beauty of the natural form is illuminated in an epic story-collage. There is no dialogue in the entire film and Fricke combines many obscure human practices with that of every day corporate life. The entire experience is like a William Burrows cut-up fused with a National Geographic movie and a spiritual teach-in by Ram Dass. It's a great work about evolutionary realization, and subliminally it's making an attempt to provide for a realization on the viewer's part. Whether or not the viewer fully allows oneself to experience it, well, that remains to be seen...
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Summary: The eyes are so haunting....spectacular
Review: BARAKA stunned me the first time around, and I wept at the scenes of suffering and the madness we are inflicting in our hubris on this Earth. The most haunting scenes are when the faces of the people stare back at me from their homes in the street, the jungle, the crematoriums in India, all staring back with such peace, grace and dignity despite their surroundings. BARAKA honors them as human beings first, and passes no judgement. Masterful. A two hour movie without actors, without dialogue, but it reaches into my heart and soul and gave it a good tug. BARAKA has touched and moved me. Thank you and bless its director and creators for such a work of soul and art. Some of the scene changes are abrupt, some scenes I can't place or figure its context, but these are really minor flaws in the grand scheme of things. The soundtrack is extraordinary, subtle and totally appropriate. The letterbox version is the best, don't go for full screen. THis is a great gift to yourself. Go get it.
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Summary: Astounding! I'd recommend it to any age...
Review: Not since Koyanaskazi have I seen such beauty. Uplifting, thought provoking, and beautiful. This movie manages to get viewers to think about this wonderful, diverse world with cinematography that is unparralelled in most other movies I've seen, and all without speaking. A visual journey that you'll want to take again and again. After seeing it, I would have gladly paid double the price. The music is perfectly timed to the scenes, and the combination makes for a wonderful experience for the senses. This one's a must for anyone looking for something out of the ordinary, something that delights the mind, ears and eyes. Get it, you'll not regret the decision.
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Summary: Great Movie, Mediocre DVD
Review: Baraka is a wonderful, entrancing movie, full of rich images which hold your attention. A friend (who had not seen the movie) said: "You just can't take your eyes away, can you?" That being said, I thought the DVD image transfer was not much better than the VHS version and the promised "letterbox version" was a lie - you only get the 4:3 version. The sound is Dolby Digital - excellent! The movie gets an A+; the DVD gets a C.
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Summary: Extraordinary Spiritual Journey...
Review: Take a Deep Breath, and Relax. You are about to take a journey into Humanity. Are you ready?
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