Catch this series on the Discovery Channel. I just saw it tonight and it was awesome.
Blue Planet: Seas of Life
Started by
gcbryan
, Jan 08 2006 01:43 AM
3 replies to this topic
#1
Posted 08 January 2006 - 01:43 AM
#2
Posted 08 January 2006 - 03:15 AM
Gray,
Assuming you don't mind me piggybacking on your topic... ()
For those in the Vancouver area in two weeks time, the Cinematheque has a very rare screening of Cousteau's (and Louis Malle's), The Silent World.
"Louis Malle was just 23 when he was asked by author and undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau to help make a film that could act as an illustrated companion to Cousteau's immensely popular book also entitled The Silent World. In fact, the popularity and impact of the film proved even greater, garnering an Oscar for Best Documentary and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A lyrical meditation on the mysteries of the physical world, and on humankind's tentative steps to explore them, the film follows Cousteau and his crew as they navigate the oceans; the underwater cinematography, much of it shot by Malle himself, is simply breathtaking, the brilliantly colored coral reefs serving as a stationary counterpoint to the teeming schools of sea life whizzing past them ... This masterwork [has been] long unavailable" (Film Society of Lincoln Center). "Surely the most beautiful and fascinating documentary of its sort ever filmed ... The only trouble with the whole thing is it makes you want to strap on an Aqua-Lung and go!" (Bosley Crowther, New York Times). Colour, DVD, in French with English subtitles. 86 mins."
Thursday, January 19 – 9:35 pm
Sunday, January 22 – 5:30 pm
Assuming you don't mind me piggybacking on your topic... ()
For those in the Vancouver area in two weeks time, the Cinematheque has a very rare screening of Cousteau's (and Louis Malle's), The Silent World.
"Louis Malle was just 23 when he was asked by author and undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau to help make a film that could act as an illustrated companion to Cousteau's immensely popular book also entitled The Silent World. In fact, the popularity and impact of the film proved even greater, garnering an Oscar for Best Documentary and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A lyrical meditation on the mysteries of the physical world, and on humankind's tentative steps to explore them, the film follows Cousteau and his crew as they navigate the oceans; the underwater cinematography, much of it shot by Malle himself, is simply breathtaking, the brilliantly colored coral reefs serving as a stationary counterpoint to the teeming schools of sea life whizzing past them ... This masterwork [has been] long unavailable" (Film Society of Lincoln Center). "Surely the most beautiful and fascinating documentary of its sort ever filmed ... The only trouble with the whole thing is it makes you want to strap on an Aqua-Lung and go!" (Bosley Crowther, New York Times). Colour, DVD, in French with English subtitles. 86 mins."
Thursday, January 19 – 9:35 pm
Sunday, January 22 – 5:30 pm
#3
Posted 08 January 2006 - 09:28 AM
I agree. I actually bought the DVD set for one of my good friends for christmas. I knew he would like it. But mostly so I could borrow it!Catch this series on the Discovery Channel. I just saw it tonight and it was awesome.
Patrick
BLACKTAR
"The edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are those that have gone over." Hunter S. Thompson
"The edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are those that have gone over." Hunter S. Thompson
#4
Posted 08 January 2006 - 12:56 PM
No problem Annasea with the hijack. I'm almost tempted to drive up there for one of the showings.
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users