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June 5th was established in 1972 as World Environment Day by the United Nations General Assembly. Home, the movie by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, which premieres today for the occasion, has some nice aerial visuals.
Related. The movie's home site.
Related. The movie's home site.
Lovely cinematography, but a bit too much anthropomorphized, sentimental, scientifically indefensible narration.
posted by twsf at 8:23 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by twsf at 8:23 PM on June 5, 2009
Interesting note: the film cost 12m euros to make. Of that, 10m were furnished by PPR, the owners of Gucci.
Materialism? Surely not!
posted by WalterMitty at 9:00 PM on June 5, 2009
Materialism? Surely not!
posted by WalterMitty at 9:00 PM on June 5, 2009
The narration is a bit preachy, but the cinematography is fantastic.
posted by homunculus at 10:11 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by homunculus at 10:11 PM on June 5, 2009
Burhanistan: There's a torrent for the movie, though I cannot comment on frame rates yet as it is still downloading for me.
posted by Bangaioh at 3:31 AM on June 6, 2009
posted by Bangaioh at 3:31 AM on June 6, 2009
I happened to catch this late last night on NatGeo, being slightly champagne sozzled, I wasn't put off by the narration at all. Only when I showed my husband parts of the film at the site this morning did I cringe slightly. Absolutely beautiful photography. I too was reminded slightly of Koyanasqatsi as well as Buraka.
posted by msali at 2:18 PM on June 6, 2009
posted by msali at 2:18 PM on June 6, 2009
@Burhanistan — yeah, really choppy when I played this in FireFox. Either go the torrent route or use services like www.youtubemp4.com
posted by querty at 2:49 AM on June 7, 2009
posted by querty at 2:49 AM on June 7, 2009
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