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Netflix, Streaming Videos & DVDs

Drum

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1. Thanks v much for mentioning this!

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:45 AM

Jan 2013

I think I pretty well missed it in NYC theaters, but I think I will hafta purchase it on the pest-possible disc that I can. I bought Baraka ages ago, and it never fails to be a treat whenever I show/lend it to someone. My kind of films (those you mentioned,) that let us insert our own responses to the ravishing images. The technical efforts Fricke &Co take are just extraordinary in their payoff. It's like the recorded media really being analogous to our eyes actually seeing something.

Thanks again for mentioning this fine work!

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We just watched a film about everything that says (verbally) nothing. Samsara. Just remarkable. [View all] NRaleighLiberal Jan 2013 OP

Thanks v much for mentioning this! Drum Jan 2013 #1

You are quite welcome. I find that with these unique films, the images embed themselves into you, NRaleighLiberal Jan 2013 #2

The cinematographer did Kayaanisqatsi MichaelSoE Jan 2013 #3

I wondered if it was by Ron Fricke kentauros Jan 2013 #4

We actually liked Baraka perhaps a shred more than Samsara, maybe because NRaleighLiberal Jan 2013 #5

I've never seen Chronos, so I'd like to rent it. kentauros Jan 2013 #6