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First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary "Koyaanisqatsi" 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 .. Read more

Director	Godfrey Reggio
Genres	Documentary

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- A wildly charitable viewer might describe this as an ecological documentary. Less than 90 minutes transport us from the... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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  - 1
  brilliant art movie
  
  the music is great and the video images sometimes overly long will last long after you see this, philip glass soundtrack some of the best theme music ever ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - ronald kitching
  - England
  - 09 Jun 2004 at 20:42
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- - 0
  - 2
  Sorry, but I was bored.
  
  You may have to blame in on being spoiled by Planet Earth, Human Planet, Home etc. but this film was far too dull. The images were mildly interesting (I am sure... read more »
  
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- - da506
  - 4 reviews
  - UK
  - 14 Apr 2011 at 09:02
- - 0
  - 0
  Stunning
  
  If you like pictures you will love this film.
  
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- 843836
- - a customer
  - South
  - 01 Jan 2010 at 00:04
- - 0
  - 1
  Get the CD
  
  Frankly, this is a feature length music video. But the music is very good indeed, hence the three stars. Outside the music, this is as near to rhapsodic and ... read more »
  
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- 831303
- - Boatthink
  - 76 reviews
  - Burton
  - 15 Nov 2009 at 15:08
- - 1
  - 0
  Amazingly Outstanding
  
  The imagery is just sublime, the score is one of the best ever and abolutely goes hand in hand with the imagery, this is just a beautiful work of art that has ... read more »
  
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- - Mosco
  - 201 reviews
  - London
  - 27 Mar 2009 at 16:58
- - 0
  - 1
  Great music but...
  
  Phillip Glass is certainly one of the most startling 20th century composers in his genre, but the images, in the 21st century are looking quite tired; not Ford ... read more »
  
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- - Radioheadkiduk
  - 5 reviews
  - LONDON
  - 14 Jul 2008 at 20:00
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  - 0
  Customer Review
  
  "Koyaanisqatsi" reminds me of the Euthanasia Scene in "Soylent Green" ,where the old man reclines to watch a short nature film set to music... read more »
  
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  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
- - 0
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  I have been a member of the DVD rental club for 6 months and this is the first time I have felt compelled to write a review. What a wonderful film. I hadn'... read more »
  
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- 579674
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
- - 0
  - 0
  Beautiful but cynical
  
  A good film if not a little cynical. The representation of nature as beautiful and technology as bad is done brilliantly but it doesn't seem to make a point... read more »
  
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- - Sharmella
  - 3 reviews
  - Leeds
  - 24 Mar 2008 at 19:22
- - 0
  - 0
  Dated but interesting
  
  Koyaanisqatsi is an extended montage of time-lapse camerawork accompanied throughout by the music of minimalist composer Philip Glass. There are essentially two... read more »
  
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- - muddyfunster
  - 16 reviews
  - Chislehurst
  - 28 Jan 2008 at 10:34
- - 9
  - 0
  Historically Predictable
  
  Several things are interesting about this film
  
  The Philip Glass Music; it is almost a perfect match for the images, and for Glass this is about as ... read more »
  
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  - Glasgow
  - 04 Jun 2007 at 23:07
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- - 12
  - 1
  brilliant art movie
  
  the music is great and the video images sometimes overly long will last long after you see this, philip glass soundtrack some of the best theme music ever ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 7391
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - ronald kitching
  - England
  - 09 Jun 2004 at 20:42
- - 9
  - 0
  Historically Predictable
  
  Several things are interesting about this film
  
  The Philip Glass Music; it is almost a perfect match for the images, and for Glass this is about as ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 446820
- - a customer
  - Glasgow
  - 04 Jun 2007 at 23:07
- - 5
  - 0
  Not To Be Missed
  
  The title of the film apparently originates from a Native American Hopi word meaning, in essence, that the human race is experiencing an increasingly collective... read more »
  
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- - Peter Hurley
  - England
  - 16 Mar 2007 at 09:26
- - 1
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  Beauty and the Beast
  
  I found this film fantastically inspirational. To look at the monsterous forging of the gold that is the human world. What struck me was that the film is ... read more »
  
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- - James Scott
  - bucks
  - 12 Dec 2005 at 13:31
- - 1
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  Amazingly Outstanding
  
  The imagery is just sublime, the score is one of the best ever and abolutely goes hand in hand with the imagery, this is just a beautiful work of art that has ... read more »
  
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- - Mosco
  - 201 reviews
  - London
  - 27 Mar 2009 at 16:58
- - 0
  - 0
  Only a few words spring to mind
  
  Excellent , breathtaking and fantastic , was not to sure about this one as music and movie only etc etc but it has to be watched to be enjoyed, you will not be ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Scotland
  - 26 Nov 2004 at 00:02
- - 1
  - 1
  Beutiful, powerful and distrubing
  
  The overwhelming emotion I felt when watching Koyaanisqatsi was one of doom. The speeded up human activity and slowed down shots of nature create a sense of the... read more »
  
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- - Anonymous
  - Nottingham
  - 14 Oct 2004 at 14:28
- - 0
  - 0
  impressive
  
  This film made me quite dizzy and I cannot say I was a fan of the repetitive Philip Glass score either, even though it is so famous. But as I was watching it, ... read more »
  
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  - Tower Hill, London
  - 06 Apr 2006 at 13:48
- - 0
  - 0
  A Transcendental Film, awesome
  
  I saw this first on late night TV then made the effort to see it whenever it was on at Indy cinemas, usualy in some appalling version scratched and crackly, ... read more »
  
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- 444415
- - a customer
  - London, England
  - 28 May 2007 at 20:19
- - 0
  - 0
  Dated but interesting
  
  Koyaanisqatsi is an extended montage of time-lapse camerawork accompanied throughout by the music of minimalist composer Philip Glass. There are essentially two... read more »
  
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- 518663
- - muddyfunster
  - 16 reviews
  - Chislehurst
  - 28 Jan 2008 at 10:34

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  First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary "Koyaanisqatsi" 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 ...