Naqoyqatsi

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The weakest film in Reggio's trilogy.

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Movie Info

The long-awaited sequel to the groundbreaking films "Koyaanisqatsi" and "Powaqqatsi." Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio once again takes us on an emotional journey that highlights the profundities embedded in our everyday lives. In this final installment of the Qatsi trilogy, Reggio chronicles with breathtaking imagery the most significant event of the last five thousand years: the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and virtual.

Genre:

documentary, music
Original Language:

English
Director:

Godfrey Reggio
Producer:

Godfrey Reggio, Joe Beirne, Lawrence Taub
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 8, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$132.0K
Runtime:

1h 29m
Production Co:

Miramax Films, Qatsi Productions
Sound Mix:

Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio:

Flat (1.85:1)

Cast & Crew

Bhagwan Mirchandani

Jack Shamblin

Steven Soderbergh

Godfrey Reggio
Director

Godfrey Reggio
Writer

Steven Soderbergh
Executive Producer

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Critic Reviews for Naqoyqatsi

If the message seems more facile than the earlier films, the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care.

May 28, 2003 | Rating: 3/4

Jan Stuart
Newsday
At its best, Naqoyqatsi awakens the eyes, but it doesn't really do much to tweak the conscience. It's difficult to feel a sense of outrage while you're in a trance.

February 14, 2003 | Rating: C+

Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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.

January 30, 2003 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Matt Weitz
Dallas Morning News
Filmmaking at its purest and most visceral.

November 15, 2002 | Full Review…

Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
Pretentious, ponderous and redundant."

November 15, 2002

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
Feels like a bloated mass of data without much coherence.

November 8, 2002 | Rating: 2.5/4

Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
Too much of a good thing being bombarded with an hour and a half of trippy images that appear to be lecturing me on how miserable, yet strangely beautiful, modern life is.

May 7, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The only feeling one comes away from Naqoyqatsi is admiration of its technological virtuosity--certainly not what Reggio intended.

December 27, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com
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August 17, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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August 13, 2004 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies
Socially aware, but so nihilistic and fatalistic that it's irrelevant since it is unwilling to push towards the social change that the prior films supported so adamently.

March 1, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/4

Derek Smith
Cinematic Reflections
Reggio's ever-evolving style in this film doesn't have the same mesmerizing quality as his previous efforts...but nobody makes more accessible non-narrative conceptual cinema.

December 31, 2003 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

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Audience Reviews for Naqoyqatsi

Dec 03, 2018

Reggio's psychedelic use of visual effects is quite bold considering how dated they may certainly look for many today (although I see them more as vintage effects), and we find more cohesion here than in Powaqqatsi, even if the result becomes equally loose and repetitious after a while.

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