"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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Traveling through villages along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, the filmmakers document the impact of the covert war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, featuring interviews with mercenaries, soldiers, spies and civilian victims.
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