Koyaanisqatsi
The film shows a set of images using high-definition films, which show how human influences nature. The world looks good without human intervention. It lies in mountains, rivers, oceans, sky and earth. All this appears without prejudice to man.
14 October 1958, London, England, UK
15 August 1944, Bryan, Texas, USA
August 11, 1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
April 22, 1952 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA
10 January 1953, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 November 1936, Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
7 April 1938, San Francisco, California, USA
8 February 1940, Lancashire, England, UK
11 October 1950, New York City, New York, USA
8 December 1925, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
15 November 1929, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
8 September 1925, Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK
23 October 1925, Corning, Iowa, USA
24 September 1945, Childress, Texas, USA
September 20, 2001
What makes this film great is its structure, the fact that photography, editing and music alone can combine to form an epic, 90-minute composition that coheres.
October 06, 2002
gets its point across through Phillip Glass' hypnotic and evocative score, cinematographer Ron Fricke's creative and provocative juxtapositions, and mystical forces
December 22, 2003
'A magnificent, eye-opening experience'
January 14, 2003
I guarantee you've never seen anything quite like it.
October 27, 2003
Jaw dropping photography. A unique experience.
April 06, 2006
Whether or not the movie exposes a world that is manifestly out of balance, Reggio and Glass's liturgy is that rarest of art forms: an avant-garde work with purpose and substance that also succeeds as entertainment.
October 06, 2002
Odd, hypnotic, and frequently quite beautiful.
July 05, 2004
Relentlessly concerned with the surface reality of human life, Koyaanisqatsi completely misses the inner beauties and dignities of man-made civilization.
May 21, 2003
Unique and fascinating; great Philip Glass score
August 22, 2017
"Well now, that music was *very* foreboding; it made a shiver go right down my spine."
