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Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

NR04/27/1983Documentary, Drama1h 26m
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Life out of balance

Overview

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Top Billed Cast

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    Ed Asner

    Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

  2. Cast 1

    Pat Benatar

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  3. Cast 1

    Jerry Brown

    Self - On TV (archive footage, uncredited)

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    Johnny Carson

    Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

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    Dick Cavett

    Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

  6. Marilyn Chambers

    Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

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    Sammy Davis Jr.

    Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

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    Lou Dobbs

    Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

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    Thomas Dolby

    Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

**For the general public, this film is uninteresting. However, it will have merits if displayed within the most correct context.** I've heard of this film as a documentary, but I honestly don't know if Godfrey Reggio really wanted to document anything. This was the director's debut, and for a first work we can say that there is quality, even though it is a somewhat strange film because it has nothing more than a soundtrack and successive images, which do not seem to have a relationship with each other. If this is an experimental film, I also can't understand what this director really wan...