Botany of Desire - 11/3


Moonshot (A&E) - 11/17
Over British Columbia (Topics Entertainment) - 9/1

you can add the coverart for these Overpar:

Living Landscapes: World's Most Beautiful Mountains - Oct 13th

all November 3rd releases:
Adventures with Purpose: Egypt
Adventures with Purpose: India
Adventures with Purpose: Moroco
Adventures with Purpose: New Zealand
Adventures with Purpose: Norway
Adventures with Purpose: Switzerland

were the last seven episodes ever broadcast ??

I saw the first four and China was definately the best in my opinion - looking forward to watching these!

What's this "Disney's Earth"? Is it just "Planet Earth" footage spliced together in 90 minute form?

^ essentially yes, it's interesting/frustrating that the international version of the film had Patrick Stewart do the narration, while the US version has James Earl Jones. The UK bluray has Stewart's narration, but is region B locked.



international poster art:

Interesting, thanks. I'll give it a spin tonight and see if I can compare Planet Earth footage to it.

Added

Adventures with Purpose: Egypt (Topics Entertainment) - 11/3
Adventures with Purpose: India (Topics Entertainment) - 11/3
Adventures with Purpose: Moroco (Topics Entertainment) - 11/3
Adventures with Purpose: New Zealand (Topics Entertainment) - 11/3
Adventures with Purpose: Norway (Topics Entertainment) - 11/3
Adventures with Purpose: Switzerland (Topics Entertainment) - 11/3
Living Landscapes: World's Most Beautiful Mountains (HDEnvironments.com) - 10/13

Thanks Giles!

Also


Glenn Gould: Hereafter - 9/29





Home for Christmas (First Look Studios) - 10/13 (Yet another virtual fireplace!)



Sacred Mt. Ali and the Forest Railway - 10/13



Food, Inc (Magnolia Pictures) - 11/3
Together: The Hendrick Motorsports Story - 10/27

Visions of the Sea (PBS) - 10/13

Watched 'Earth'...meh. Alot of it was covered in Planet Earth and it seemed tamed down for the kids. Picture and Audio were amazing though. I ordered that 'Six Degrees' thing from Warner - how is that?

well now how can you not forget this title:



Puppies and Kittens

Slow news day. New cover art for Challenge of Change



and Kingdoms of the Coast

that poster is awesome! my wife and i saw this in the theater and while it was good and james earl jones' narration was great, i won't be getting this as it's too much a rehash of PE, which i already have.

I've got the Netherlands region-free release. It was really good, and a great technical presentation. It has Patrick Stewart doing the narration.

Has anyone heard if Wild Russia is coming out on Blu-ray? I caught that on Discovery. It was awesome. Right up there with Planet Earth.

Preliminary cover art for the latest HD Moods entry - Trains

Ride Around the World (IMAX) - 12/1



Synopsis:
TAKE A WILD RIDE to discover the amazing 1200-year global history of the cowboy. Rope wild bulls on one of the most famous American ranches. Swim with horses through the watery Argentine backcountry. Stage an attack on the casbah with Moroccan mounted warriors. Gallop over mountaintops in spectacular British Columbia. Journey on horseback through these exotic landscapes and many more as you RIDE AROUND THE WORLD!

Director(s): Harry Lynch

Language: English
MSRP: $24.98
Rating: Not Rated
Run Time: 40 mins
Audio Format: DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Language: English, Spanish

Special Features:
# "Making Of" documentary (22 min)
# Trailer gallery
# Director's commentary
# An episode from the award-winning TV series "America's Horse"
# Film trivia quiz
# Optional Spanish audio track

Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season V - 10/28



$34.99
Description:
Through in-depth profiles and dynamic behind-the-scenes footage featuring artists from around the world, speaking directly about their inspirations and ideas, Season Five shows a broad range of artistic practice, technical innovation, and experimentation, from artists tackling large-scale collaborative projects in hangar-like studios, to those working in the quiet of more intimate studio settings.
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Some preliminary artwork...

Objectified - UK release - 10/5. (Region ???)



"Objectified" is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. In his second film, director Gary Hustwit ("Helvetica") documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. "Objectified" is about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

Featuring:
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Tim Brown (IDEO)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Dan Formosa (Smart Design)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
David Kelley (IDEO)
Bill Moggridge (IDEO)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Davin Stowell (Smart Design)
Jane Fulton Suri (IDEO)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Objectified-...3287460&sr=8-3

Another Screensaver...

Hawaii Beaches 1: Waves - 10/1

11/17

Wish that was coming to Canada/US!

11/20

Keeping Score Season 2 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Keeping Score Season 2: Ives Holiday Symphony
Keeping Score Season 2: Shostakovich Symphony No.5

In Keeping Score Season 2, Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony explore the music and stories of Hector Berlioz, Charles Ives and Dmitri Shostakovich, composers who each struggled with musical language as a unique expression of their ideas. Shot in a variety of locations throughout the world, the Keeping Score programs offer audiences a unique journey into the lives and music of the featured composers.







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1/5/10

Becoming Human Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors

Nothing is more fascinating to us than, well, us. NOVA's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with renowned scientists, footage shot as fossils were unearthed, and stunning computer-generated animation, Becoming Human brings early hominids to life, examining how they lived and how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today.



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Wild Ocean (IMAX) - 1/26/10

Synopsis: WILD OCEAN is an uplifting cinematic experience capturing one of nature’s greatest migration spectacles through the magic of IMAX®. Plunge into an underwater feeding frenzy amidst the dolphins, sharks, whales, gannets, seals and billions of fish. Filmed off the Wild Coast of South Africa, WILD OCEAN is a timely documentary that celebrates the animals that now depend on us to survive and the efforts by local people to protect this invaluable ecological resource. Hope is alive on the Wild Coast where Africa meets the sea.

No release dates that I can see, but these have been posted on MagicPlay Entertainment's website.



Staying alive in Asia's barren heartland of desert and dry grasslands is a challenge, yet many animals thrive. The Arid Heart explores life in the arid interior, revealing the secrets of surviving both searing summer heat and bitter winter cold. Przewalski's horses are the only true wild horses in the world. They are nomads who roam the grasslands in search of the best grazing. The Demoiselle Cranes' journey from India takes them across the stony Gobi desert, the bleak centre of Asia's arid heart. Here, there is hardly any water, yet the desert is still home to a thousand wild Bactrian camels, who are superbly adapted to the desert. The Arid Heart is the story of life in Asia's dry lands and grasslands of the Mongolian steppe, the stony Gobi Desert, and the sandy deserts of India. These are places of extreme, where summers are intensely hot and winters are bitterly cold. The animals who live here are tough and resilient, and not only survive, but thrive.



The Last Salt Caravan follows the Ancient Trade Route to Tibet’s mysterious gorge with a salton spring. We follow the caravan as it is taking a salt-selling journey on the Ancient Trade Route between Tibet and China.

The memory of the ancient trade route was regarded as something that had fallen into oblivion until we met the last salt caravan in the deep mountains of Tibet!

The Province of Yunnan, located in the south western part of China, is the very starting point of the Ancient Tea Trade Route toward Tibet, which was also called a southern Silk Road with a two thousandyear history.

Caravans from Yanjing and Yunnan still take this route to trade tea, grains and most importantly, salt. Throughout the history, salt had been the source of power and taxation. This region and the salt caravan have never been introduced to outside world, and therefore, their local characteristics and culture are untouched by modern civilization.



The lotuses blossom most luxuriantly from June to September each year, and at this time the town organizes a series of Lotus Festival activities.

The first records of lotuses harvested in Water Lily Town date back at least 19 years. The town’s ponds fan out over about 410 hectares of land, constituting two-thirds of the island's lotus fields. The plants are harvested for their stems, roots, and cupules. The area's cultivators frown on dehydrating, soaking, or bleaching the lotus root, techniques to extend its one-week shelf life.

Taiwan has been called the "Kingdom of Butterflies" with more than 400 species of butterflies in Taiwan, and 40 of them can be found nowhere else in the world! There was a time during the 1960's when thousands of workers here were producing butterfly art and crafts. It is estimated that some 10 million butterflies were caught every year.