And so I must add one more movie onto my growing list of 'wow' movies...
After seeing Naqoyqatsi last week, I was pumped to see Koyaanisqatsi (1983) playing at the Royal alongside Baraka (1992) (more info).
Koyaanisqatsi was on first and I couldn't help but think that the movie would probably look the same even if it was filmed today. (Except perhaps more frantic? It's hard to tell because I see Koyaanisqatsi as being very modern but I really can't remember how life was when I was 3 years old.)
Ron Fricke did an amazing job with the photographic directing. If there's one thing that I love about film, it's time elapse scenes. Then also add time elapse to night light and traffic scenes... drool.
And so I wasn't prepared for Baraka... I was recommended Baraka over a year ago and I wish I would have seen it earlier because it was awesome. (And by that, I do mean awesome in that awe-inspiring way... My next mission is to see Baraka on an IMAX screen!)
Very interesting to see how Fricke used some of the same footage used in Koyaanisqatsi but he was really able to revisit it in order to give it a different feel. The time elapse in this film was also much more elegant.
Seeing these two movies in one night totally makes me want to travel and see what's outside my little Canadian bubble. It's a bit crazy how we take our current lifestyles as the only lifestyle.
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