 | Dersu Uzala
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $20.00 Respect, friendship and humanity in this beautiful and touching movie about the passing of time and a way of life between a soldier and a Goldi (Nanai) hunter. This was Kurosaswa's movie based on V. K. Arseniev's memoirs about a hunter who became the guide to a group of soldiers on a land surveying mission. Acting and photography is lovely, dvd quality is ok.
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 | Baraka
The move that Ron Fricke made after being the renown cinemtographer for Philip Glass's and Godfrey Reggio's trilogy Koyanisqatasi. There is a beautiful and earthy shamanist subtext here about man's connection with nature. A sense of wonder occupies everywhere we are taken to. Not to be missed.
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 | Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.75 The movie that propelled Godfrey Reggio's trilogy. See land, quiet, pristine, before man arrives and turns it into a roiling drone of repetition. Word is Hopi Indian language for life out of balance. This movie attempts to imagine how traditional Native American may view the industrial society.
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 | An Inconvenient Truth
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $2.98 Yes, we could all have done without Al Gore's public moping over the 2000 election. But this is still an educational movie about global warming, something certain parties refuse to acknowledge. Why not impress your friends the next time everyone's sweating in the midst of winter? Recite information from this movie and gain heretic status among your Republican colleagues!
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 | Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $24.48 Les Blank's documentary about the making of Werner Herzog's movie Fitzcarraldo, putting many horrific myths about the production to rest. Herzog, responsible, adventurous, and always respectful of indigenous cultures, tells his side of the story of their struggle in the South American jungle. Wonderful extract of his favorite fiend Klaus Kinski playing with a butterfly.
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 | Where the Green Ants Dream
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.00 Another Herzog movie, this time about Australian aboriginees who refuse to budge from their land when construction invades their territory.
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 | Wheel of Time
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.95 Herzog documentary about Tibetan pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya, India. Beautiful and magical, where pilgrims travel for thousands of miles by foot, over vast mountain ranges. Monks respect every living thing regardless of size, treating each as a buddha.
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 | EARTHLINGS
Buy used from: $29.95 Movie-length documentary about human being's relationship with animals, and earth. Don't treat it as a vegan manifesto, and you will walk away with plenty to think about.
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 | Survivorman
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $10.99 He plays a mean harmonica, he doesn't get airlifted to the Sheraton when he's supposed to be roughing it out at a tent, and he's always respectful of animals and environment, hunting only when absolutely necessary. Get the best seat in the house and go on a date with a guy who doesn't shower for seven days.
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 | American Experience: Ansel Adams
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.96 Documentary about Ansel Adams, the great black and white large format photographer who was also on the Board of Director for the environmental group, the Sierra Club. Adams made Yosemite National Park and many American landmarks in the first part of the 1900s into instantly recognizable vistas.
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