"Life out of balance" 27 April 1983 Factual, Music 86 mins
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
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Ed Asner as Self (archive footage)
Pat Benatar as Self
Johnny Carson as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage)
Lou Dobbs as Self (archive footage)
Linda Ellerbee as Self (archive footage)
Peter Sellers as Self (archive footage)
Thomas Dolby as Self (archive footage)
Godfrey Reggio Director
Godfrey Reggio Producer
Ron Fricke Editor
Francis Ford Coppola Executive Producer
Ron Fricke Screenplay
Philip Glass Original Music Composer
Ron Fricke Director of Photography
Steve Maslow Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gary Burritt Negative Cutter
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Australia 27 October 1983
Belgium 27 April 1983
Brazil 25 December 1983
Czech Republic 01 February 1995
Germany 10 November 1983
Spain 23 October 1984
Finland 21 February 1986
France 24 August 1983
Hungary 07 February 1985
Ireland 14 September 2025
Netherlands 26 February 2003
Poland 01 October 1988
Portugal 01 January 1984
United States 27 April 1983
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1983:
04 February 1983
A woman was raped in her school years and broke up with her lover because of it. Later, when she became a high school music teacher, she had forbidden liaisons with her colleagues and students at her apartment.
31 March 1983
Mimosa is about a girl growing up in an orphanage who tries to make life fun for all the residents. It's a great Easter story, an animated fairy tale about a witch kid and what she's up to in the orphanage while the mother witch whips around with her broom.
08 April 1983
When his parents are killed by three men, Amar, Akbar and Anthony, Vijay teams up with a forest officer who was framed in a murder case to avenge their deaths.
18 September 1983
16 April 1983
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
07 January 1983
A young woman (Zeenat Aman), who grows up in the wild, knows the secret of a lost treasure, and is also the heir to the throne.
25 May 1983
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station.
01 January 1983
David Chiang is backed into a corner. He must fight his way out to face the ultimate sword duel with the master of swords, Tien Peng.
25 February 1983
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22 April 1983
Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it.
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