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CONSENSUS
The weakest film in Reggio's trilogy.
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
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SYNOPSIS
KOYAANISQATSI, which means, in the Hopi language, "Life out of balance" was released in 1982. The second film, POWAQQATSI ("Life in Transformation"), was completed and released in 1988. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, violent and disturbing images and brief nudity
RUNTIME
89 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 18, 2002
Video: Jun 17, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Miramax Films
GENRE
Education/General Interest, Music, Wildlife, Nature
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Naqoyqatsi Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
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 "Like its two predecessors, 1983's Koyaanisqatsi and 1988's Powaqqatsi, the cinematic collage Naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
 "Despite its visual virtuosity, 'Naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"At a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism American moviemaking ever had, Godfrey Reggio's career shines like a lonely beacon."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"Though it inspires some (out-of-field) creative thought, the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Reggio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking."
-- Ed Scheid, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet."
-- Max Messier, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Thoughtful essay."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"My advice is to skip the film and pick up the soundtrack."
-- Jean Lowerison, SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN
"Skip the film and buy the Philip Glass soundtrack CD."
-- Phil Hall, FILM THREAT
"Reggio and Glass put on an intoxicating show."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Not so much a movie as a picture book for the big screen. This isn't my favorite in the series, still I enjoyed it enough to recommend."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Will probably stay in the shadow of its two older, more accessible Qatsi siblings."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"A bold and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age, speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of Philip Glass."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
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"Much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged, as if filmed directly from a television monitor, while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché."
-- Erich Scholz, CITYSEARCH
"Reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns, creating a meandering, inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film."
-- Par Parekh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"The saturation bombing of Reggio's images and Glass' evocative music ... ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"Can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as music"
-- Marty Mapes, MOVIE HABIT
"What was once original has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Whether you're moved and love it, or bored or frustrated by the film, you'll still feel something."
-- Dan Gross, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experiences, letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"Incoherence reigns."
-- David Chute, L.A. WEEKLY
"It's not a film to be taken literally on any level, but its focus always appears questionable."
-- David N. Butterworth, MOVIE BOEUF
"It is psychedelic, hypnotic, exhilarating and horrifying, and sometimes all at once."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
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ROTTEN 56%
Avg. Rating: 6.8/10 |
"If you open yourself up to Mr. Reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change."
-- Matt Weitz, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"If the message seems more facile than the earlier films, the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"The whole thing plays like a tired Tyco ad."
-- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE
"The sound of Ma's cello alone is reason not to miss Naqoyqatsi."
-- Octavio Roca, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Twenty years later, Reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery, but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Reggio's trippy, ambitious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified Nike ad."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Filmmaking at its purest and most visceral."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"Who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this, the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy, directed by Godfrey Reggio, with music by Philip Glass?"
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"Reggio and Glass so rhapsodize cynicism, with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences, that Glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
"A disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by Philip Glass."
-- Patrick Z. McGavin, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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"Like all abstract art, the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way, and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
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