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Everest [DVD]
Genre | Music Videos & Concerts |
Format | DVD, NTSC, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Color, Special Edition |
Contributor | Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson, Muktu Lhakpa Sherpa, Wong Chu Sherpa, Liam Neeson, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Tim Cahill, Araceli Segarra, Thilen Sherpa, Robert Schauer, Lhakpa Dorji, Dorje Sherpa, David Breashears, Ed Viesturs, Jangbu Sherpa See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 44 minutes |
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Relive a breathtaking journey to the top of the world with EVEREST, the spectacular giant-screen motion picture for IMAX theatres! Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, EVEREST documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help surviving members of the ill-fated group. Join an international team of climbers as they scale the world's tallest peak. Witness the perils of skin-blistering cold, violent blizzards that drop the windchill to minus 100 degrees, and air so thin it numbs the mind. EVEREST will take you across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs and into the death zone of oxygen-thin altitude. Filmed in spellbinding IMAX photography, "the most hyperrealistic format yet invented," says producer Greg MacGillivray. Narrated by Academy Award(R)-nominee Liam Neeson, including the music of George Harrison, EVEREST is a rich, dramatic story -- a daring adventure of triumph and tragedy.
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Does an IMAX film play well on video? The large screen IMAX movie experience always sheds light on subjects we thought we knew before and adds a you-are-there immediacy. But once you shrink the image down to TV size, is the film still as effective? One certainly misses the impact of the huge IMAX screen, but for those who missed Everest in IMAX theaters, the video is well worth watching. The film is not letterboxed because the aspect ratio of IMAX films is very similar to that of a television. Only a few shots are "squished" to show the entire image (a shrine, a mountainscape), which gives them a bowed effect. However, the clarity of an IMAX film is so good to begin with that it makes an excellent video transfer. For anyone who read Jon Krakauer's bestseller Into Thin Air, Everest is vital to putting the images with Krakauer's prose, without following the excruciating blow-by-blow story again. --Doug Thomas
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 0.8 ounces
- Director : David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson
- Media Format : DVD, NTSC, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Color, Special Edition
- Run time : 44 minutes
- Release date : December 7, 1999
- Actors : Liam Neeson, Lhakpa Dorji, Dorje Sherpa, Ed Viesturs, Muktu Lhakpa Sherpa
- Subtitles: : English
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.0), Unqualified
- Studio : Miramax
- ASIN : B00001U0E2
- Writers : Stephen Judson, Tim Cahill
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #22,516 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #218 in Sports (Movies & TV)
- #344 in Documentary (Movies & TV)
- #365 in Music Videos & Concerts (Movies & TV)
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And watching these climbers was riveting--ascending sheer sheets of ice, yards high, that look as though they are leaning in towards the climber; crossing bottomless chasms by placing an aluminum work ladder from one side to the other, and using it as a bridge; and feeling (in part through the excellent cinematography) the pull the mountain exerts on them to continue on. But I was floored, completely, by the thought of the cinematic team following along, all the way to the top, regardless of the weight and awkwardness of the equipment. For example, in the aforementioned aluminum ladder scene, shots seem to be taken from each side of the chasm. Had they carried that heavy equipment accross that ladder? And, once they came down from such a difficult and draining climb, they still managed to piece together a marvelous film.
The cinematography, once again, is gorgeous. Shots of the mountain convey not only its beauty, but its terrifying danger, as ice and whirling snow tower over the climbers, as a rescue helicopter wavers, uncertainly, as Liam Nelson explains the scientific impossibility of a helicopter to work in such thin air (it does). Seeing the Icefall alone, I think, was worth the price I paid for the video.
Warning: If you get this movie expecting it to be a documentary covering the Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness Expeditions, chronicled in "Into Thin Air", you will be disappointed. The IMAX expedition was unrelated to the others, and of course the crew could not predict that those expeditions might yield more interesting, if tragic, results. But the teams do interact with each other when it becomes clear that members are facing unexpected danger. I enjoyed "meeting" many of the folks I had read about.
Finally, "Everest", the film, stands on its own. With a terrific story in Araceli Segarra, wonderful images from Utah and Spain as well as Nepal, and a score assisted by George Harrison melodies, it provides a great armchair journey to the top of the world.
But the beauty notwithstanding, what especially intrigues me about the film is the obsession that the mountaineers have to scale Everest. Part of the story of the film details the multiple deaths in a party trapped in a storm on Everest's slope. The leader of the party had a seven-month pregnant wife; all the other slain climbers had loved ones they left behind; the survivors placed rescuers--helicopter pilots and other mountaineers--in jeopardy. Is so much death and threat of death worthwhile? Isn't there a certain point where responsibility for others trumps a desire to stand on the "top of the world"? The film doesn't explore these questions, nor the issue of why so many people have such a compulsion to scale Everest. I wish it had, because I found myself both captivated by the mountain's beauty and angered by the wanton disregard for life displayed by the climbers.
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そこから興味を持って、事件に関わったIMAX隊の映像を観てみたく、発注。
これが私のはじめてのamazon利用となりました。
2002年、8月末に発注、受け取ったのが10月末。今では考えられない遅さですが、
確か米国から発送だったかと思います。しかもVHSテープのケースが熱で変形しており、
かと言って今更返品交換など待つ気にもなれず、中身のテープだけを移植して視聴しました。
当時は楽天ブックスの天下、まさか現在のようなことになるとは夢にも…。
Et enfin, une performance dont on ne voit qu'une partie : escalader avec des caméras IMAX n'a certainement pas été une partie de plaisir.
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Worth The Money: Yes
Would I Recommend It: Yes
When I saw Everest the movie this year I was sure that this was the same disaster, although everyone I told said it wasn't. But I clearly heard the IMAX crew mentioned in the film. They even helped with the rescue. I now know this IS the same incident.
I never thought I'd see this film again, and am so glad it is available. As it was filmed for an IMAX cinema you are not going to get the impact that was originally intended, but if you want to see this incident actually unfold, watch this! The IMAX crew were on Everest filming a documentary about a team climbing this iconic peak, and much of the film was about that team. They had no way of knowing that this tragedy would occur to Rob Hall's team, also on the mountain at the same time, so don't expect footage to focus exclusively on the build up to the disaster.
I've seen a comment that the film is amateurish. Filming at those altitudes where the human body is not meant to survive, and often doesn't, was pretty amazing. This was climbers filming a place most of us can never reach. This is also not a Hollywood movie, this is real, as it happened, documentary.
For me it provides the perfect companion to the 2015 film Everest, which in itself proved to be very faithful to actual events, in my opinion.
The DVD is an import and has sleeve notes and subtitles in Dutch. Don't let this put you off. The subtitles are easily switched off, and everything else is in English as the original would have been.