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Summary: excellent
Review: How come it is not available and so many seem to require it? Fortunately we possess several VHS copies bought from stores years ago and many more copied on my own. Will cling on them yet, hope VHS and DVDs comes out soon! If the problem is that the release of powerful visual messages with a high content of truth could be felt to be socially de-stabilizing, (perhaps we are naive) we do think they are not. Hence, It should be freely seen for the many to think about so as to know that at least something is been done about those things such as: a)letting the movie be available and b)that there are places where the problem is very seriously addressed to so as to see a clear way out of this potential quagmire.......
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Summary: These videos are available, but.....
Review: This video can be had, but it is expensive. I've seen them on EBAY.com for $50-100. Way high, but if you gotta have it, there it is. I imagine ditto soundtrack.
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Summary: The Greatest Music Video of ALL TIME!
Review: Stunning visuals, seductive sound track, and not a word is spoken when the most moving message ever contained in a motion picture is unfurled to glimmer in a fleeting light. Get it, bring it back, release it on DVD, and bring on Powaqatsi while you're at it - a DOUBLE DVD! What a great Christmas gift!
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Summary: I NEED THIS MOVIE!!!
Review: I am dying to see this film!! I've worn grooves in the CD (is that possible?) the Philip Glass Score is remarkable! If ANYONE can find this for me, I would greatly appreciate it!
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Summary: Transforms the boxlike screen into a wonderous tapestry.
Review: I'm no movie expert and frankly my tastes run in the silly or campy end of the movie spectrum. This movie grabs you and won't let go. The images stay with you for days on end, and I'm definately not a fan of Phillip Glass's music, but the score is mesmerising and absolutely essential for the overall effect. I tried watching it with other music to no avail. I first saw this movie in the mid '80's. I was surfing the tube when this slow motion, closeup sequence of a rocket taking off caught my eye. I was absolutely riveted on the spot for the next 90 minutes. When the movie was over I had this strange empty feeling that hung on for days after. Koyaanisqatsi stirred up feelings and emotions I scarcely knew I had. Every time I watched it since, this strange feeling of loss and emptiness washes over me when it ends. It gets to the very nerve center of my consiousness. It is without a doubt my favorite movie of all time. It is not for everyone though, I showed to a friend once and he commented "clouds roll in, clouds roll out, big deal". I guess I can see his point. To people that can't sit five minutes without a car chase, this film will bore you to death. The mundane images of sand dunes and office buildings are morphed into stark testamonials of man's never ending battle with the forces of nature. Summed up perfectly in the film's closing scene. A rocket streaking towards space, exploding in mid air, and pieces of it slowly falling back to mother earth. It is a solemn reminder that nature wins every time. "One day a container of ashes will fall from the sky, it will scorch the earth and boil the oceans." Powerful stuff.
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Summary: Utterly enthralling
Review: I recorded this work when aired during the wee small hours on Channel 4 in the UK. I watched it once or twice and then recorded over half of it - what a mistake. I have tried for over 5 years to find a video release of Koyaanisqatsi but to no avail. I will keep looking. The sound and pictures are truly amazing. We got the chance to see it on UK telly about 15 years ago.
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Summary: One of the most influential films of the last 20 years.
Review: At least once a week I see a cinematic tecnhique, a camera angle, or I hear some music, that is a frank imitation of Koyaanisqatsi. This film gave the world a whole new visual vocabulary. It did things no one had done before. Seminal.I still have my original tape of the PBS broadcast. It's pretty tired. I also have the soundtrack CD. I wish I could see it again as I did when it was playing in the little art theater where I first experienced it. Full sound and visuals. I don't understand why it's been out of circulation so long.
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Summary: Reggio/Glass collaboration is genius
Review: Reggio takes common scenes out of normal context by framing, slowing and speeding effects which produce moving, disturbing and touching images that are perfectly punctuated by Glass's thematic shifting patterns of notes. If my copy taped off PBS hadn't been stolen in a break-in, I would be viewing it again and again still. We_must_have_a_ release_of_this_work!!! Those who know the film will understand: desert, strip-mining, urban life, loneliness, terminal, hotdogs, destructing missile. Can mankind retain respect and compassion for nature and the individual in an increasingly impersonal and technological world of their making -- is our feeling of control an illusion? Can we continue expending resources exponentially fighting against natural balances and survive? When/How will this end?
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Summary: Is this not America?
Review: I thought you could just about buy anything in America, but am ending up at a dead end road with Koyaanisqatsi. I have been searching long and hard for a copy of this fabulous movie and have found only one possible link. Considering the reviews on this page alone, why would it not be in production? With DVD taking a major step forward, why isn't this masterpiece coming back from it's grave (archive)? Somebody please push some buttons or make some calls to get this released on DVD.
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Summary: Forget movies.I want to see it in Imax.If possible!
Review: Saw the movie first on PBS and can't get enough of it.Like a surreal dream you can't get out of your head,the music and images will always haunt you.Got the cd but waiting for it to be rereased.
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