en http://clearbooks.zlio.net/ Thu, 15 May 2008 12:38:24 GMT Thu, 15 May 2008 12:38:24 GMT http://clearbooks.zlio.net/p/Kika/11540288 Thu, 15 May 2008 11:39:16 GMT Spanish director Pedro Almodovar spins out enough frenetic material for four normal movies in this penetrating satire. Peter Coyote costars as Nicholas, an American writer living in Spain whose wife has killed herself, and whose stepson, Ramon (Alex Casanova), is obsessive and narcoleptic. Ramon's ex-girlfriend, Andrea 'Scarface' Garacortada is a TV show host for a program that could be called 'Spain's Most Violent Home Videos'. Played by Spanish star Victoria Abril, Andrea is seductive, manipul

Kika]]> http://clearbooks.zlio.net/p/Kika/11540288 http://clearbooks.zlio.net/p/Koyaanisqatsi-Powaqqatsi-Box-Set/9126510 Thu, 15 May 2008 11:36:51 GMT the pioneer of image and soundPrepare for the ultimate DVD experience. Technically dazzling photographic effects, superb cinematography, and stirring musical scores combine to create two of the most extraordinary and breathtaking films in recent years. Influencing untold pop promos and TV commercials, these visual tour-de-forces are released to buy as a DVD box set. Koyaanisqatsi First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary 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 college students on the midnight circuit and fans of minimalism for many years. Meanwhile, its techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots (alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass's reiterative music (from the meditative to the orgiastic) - as well as its ecology-minded imagery - crept into the consciousness of popular culture. The influence of 'Koyaanisqatsi', or ''life out of balance,'' has by now become unmistakable in television advertisements and music videos and this DVD provides the uninitiated the chance to see where it all started--along with an intense audiovisual rush. Powaqqatsi 'Powaqqatsi' (1988)finds director Godfrey Reggio somewhat more directly polemical than before, and his major collaborator, the composer Philip Glass, stretching to embrace world music. Reggio reuses techniques familiar from the previous film (slow motion, time-lapse, superposition) to dramatize the effects of the so-called First World on the Third: displacement, pollution, alienation. But he spends as much time beautifully depicting what various cultures have lost - cooperative living, a sense of joy in labor, and religious values - as he does confronting viewers with trains, airliners, coal cars, and loneliness. What had been a more or less peaceful, slow-moving, spiritually fulfilling rural existence for these ''silent'' people (all we hear is music and sound effects) becomes a crowded, suffocating, accelerating industrial urban hell, from Peru to Pakistan...

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