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Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
List Price: $26.95 Our Price: $20.21
DVD - 28 September, 2004
New Video Group
NR (Not Rated)
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Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Number of Media: 1
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| DVD Description Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides is a truly beautiful, Finnish-German 2001 documentary about artist Goldsworthy, a Scotsman whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred studio is the outdoors, particularly where water forever flows, rises, and/or retreats. The soft-spoken, secluded Goldsworthy is seen hard at work making ephemeral sculptures out of bits of ice in the trees, or building tall, mysterious cones from loose rock, which stand like spiritual sentinels in forests and on shorelines, overgrown by plants or swallowed daily by high tides. Filmmaker-cinematographer Thomas Reidelsheimer goes to great and sometimes inexplicable lengths to make visual corollaries to Goldsworthy's ideas about underappreciated relationships between light, color, movement, balance, and fluidity of form in the real world, making Rivers and Tides a lively and always surprising cinematic gallery. Some of Goldsworthy's most miraculous natural installations--stone walls that snake through hundreds of feet of forest and stream, for instance--show up in the last half-hour. --Tom Keogh |
| Reviews from Customers
Fascinating documentary ruined by horrible DVD transfer As a few other reviewers have noted, this otherwise fantastic film is seriously compromised by one of the worst DVD transfers I have ever seen. While it might pass for watchable on a small TV screen, watching this on a big screen set will leave your eyes watering. The colors are flat and lifeless, details are blurry, and whenever the camera pans slowly across a landscape, as it does a a lot in this film, the whole image jitters and staggers.
Too much ego, not enough art While I did enjoy several of the images of the final product and process, this film was disappointing. The processes and effects of change in nature are intrinsically interesting, but, in my opinion, this film devoted WAY too much attention to Andy Goldsworthy and not enough to nature and its interaction with his creations. I found myself fast-forwarding at 8x speed through much of the narration to get to the "good" parts. The quality of the DVD transfer was also mediocre (or maybe the original filming wasn't that good to begin with). There is no comparison to "Winged Migration" (5 stars)--at least not a favorable one.
Horrendous DVD transfer I must agree with one of the previous reviewers. I love the film but the quality of the DVD transfer is terrible. The picture itself is widescreen, but they transferred it in 4:3 format. So if you have a normal 4:3 tv you'll get black bars on top and bottem. If your tv is widescreen, as mine, then you'll get black bars on the sides as well. What kind of moron did they hire to do the DVD transfer? |
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