Baraka [Blu-ray]
by Ron Fricke
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Director: Ron FrickeBrand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.20:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MPI Home Video
DVD Reviews of Baraka [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
The picture really shows of the HDTV. Mines an older one that's only a 1080i/720P and it still looks great. The sound is good too.
BAinMO
DVD Review: The Best Looking Blu-Ray Disc I've Ever Watched
Summary: 5 Stars
I never heard of this movie until I read about it on a Blu-Ray discussion board recently (the poster's wife started crying it moved her so much). This movie was done by Ron Fricke who also did "Chronos" and is filmed in 70mm Todd-AO format.
This is by far and away the best looking High Definition (Blu-Ray or HD-DVD) disc I have looked at--period! The whole time it was on I couldn't help but be "distracted" by how clear and beautiful the images were.
As far as content, I prefer "Chronos" a bit better, but "Baraka" is quite mesmerizing in its own right. The soundtrack includes one of my favorite bands, Dead Can Dance, which works well with the movie images.
I highly recommend this for anyone's collection.
DVD Review: Watch It Again and Again
Summary: 5 Stars
I was floored the first time I saw this film years ago on DVD. Not only should everyone experience this film (stoned), but everyone needs to see the Blu Ray, no matter how many times you watched the DVD (stoned). The step up in picture and sound is immediately noticeable (especially stoned). This film never gets old. Now we just have to wait for Koyaanisqatsi to come out on Blu Ray.DVD Review: Fascinating film
Summary: 5 Stars
I had seen this film while in school in standard definition and was very impressed. The transfer to BluRay is definitely an improvement and most definitely worth purchasing. DVD Review: Simply Beautiful...
Summary: 4 Stars
No words to describe this other than beautiful, breath taking & gorgeous. It shows how we as humans are so different yet so alike. And how fragile and small we really are. It should be required viewing for everyone at least once.
Description of Baraka [Blu-ray]
FULLY RESTORED - The only movie ever transferred with an 8K HD ScanShot in breathtaking 70mm in 24 countries on six continents, BARAKA is a transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you ve ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words, viewed through man and nature s own prisms of symmetry, savagery, harmony and chaos.
BARAKA produced by Mark Magidson and directed and photographed by Ron Fricke, award-winning cinematographer of KOYAANISQATSI and creators of the IMAX? sensation CHRONOS has now been fully restored from its original camera negative via state-of-the-art 8K UltraDigital mastering to create the most visually stunning Blu-ray ever made.
INCLUDES OVER 80 MINUTES OF ALL NEW BONUS FEATURES:
Baraka: A Closer Look
Baraka: Restoration
The word Baraka means "blessing" in several languages; watching this film, the viewer is blessed with a dazzling barrage of images that transcend language. Filmed in 24 countries and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory. Some of these attempts at connection are more successful than others: for instance, an early sequence segues between the daily devotions of Tibetan monks, Orthodox Jews, and whirling dervishes, finding more similarity among these rituals than one might expect. And there are other amazing moments, as when sped-up footage of a busy Hong Kong intersection reveals a beautiful symmetry to urban life that could only be appreciated from the perspective of film. The lack of context is occasionally frustrating--not knowing where a section was filmed, or the meaning of the ritual taking place--and some of the transitions are puzzling. However, the DVD includes a short behind-the-scenes featurette in which cinematographer Ron Fricke (Koyaanisqatsi) explains that the effect was intentional: "It's not where you are that's important, it's what's there." And what's here, in Baraka, is a whole world summed up in 104 minutes. --Larisa Lomacky Moore
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