What an amazing and wonderful film!
I wondered if anyone knows if there’s a picture-book or table-top art book for this movie, or if one is planned? (I’m too lazy to go look it up myself.)
I saw it this weekend. I loved it. The views were incredible. It’s amazing how far some birds fly every freaking year!
The shots from above of geese were something too, seeing how their muscles move as they fly.
According to Amazon, there is a companion book to the movie, and it’s apparently scheduled for release in December 2003.
Haven’t seen the movie yet, but I remember reading some years ago (can’t recall the source now…) that southbound birds would get into a feeding frenzy along the southern U.S. coast before heading across the Gulf of Mexico – and during the crossing, those that haven’t eaten enough or are otherwise weakened have no choice but to fall out of the sky and become fish food. Man, what a tough life, I thought to myself. Makes you realize how strong the ones who make it must be.
Sorry, but i just have to bump this thread.
Just saw the movie tonight and was ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY. What an incredibly beautiful film. The minimalist narration was perfect, and the music was excellent.
But the filming itself–i don’t think there’ll be a visual spectacle to match it for quite some time. I’m definitely going to see it again before it leaves the theatre.
There is a great website for the film here.
I saw it recently too. They filmed much of the Sandhill Crane footage near my parents’ house. It made me wicked homesick.
It was a beautiful film–well, maybe not the crab part. Eeew.
don(t know for the US but you can find 2 books in France
one art book
and one for children with cd
Was moved by the trailor alone and now am miffed that it is NOT coming to a theatre near me… have to go to Lousiville or Cincy to see it…
dunno if its worth the road time
An amazing,amazing film.
The filmmakers showed some real skill in keeping our interest for the full one hour and a half with all the variety of landscapes and the different interactions with the human world. For a film without much of a narrative thread it’s surpisingly gripping.
I hope they give this film the deluxe DVD treatment with the main film on superbit and a second disc packed with making-of material. This is a film to be treasured for many years.
Amazon.fr have the DVD in French… http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Y3RX/qid=1062745043/br=1-1/ref=br_lf_d_0/171-7675491-2408223
Also Amazon.ca…
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008DDJY/qid%3D1062745281/702-8608922-5974424
I know that DVDs come “primed” for different players, so that a European DVD won’t play on a US player, so I assume that a US person would not do well to order from amazon.fr … ? But I think the US/Canada versions are compatible.
My DVD player has an “adjustment” for which region I want to play, but it has a toggle so it can only be changed five times, or something of the sort. I’m technologically dull-witted, so I don’t understand how it works or whether it works or what.
I really enjoyed the film, too, though I was not crazy about the soundtrack. I liked the global scenes depicting the migration patterns.
If you search for your exact model of DVD player on the internet and add stuff like “de region locker” to it you should find someone’s written a faq about how to make it play anything that involves you doing nothing more than pressing a combination of buttons on the remote.
As far as I can tell, since all DVD players are made generic, THEN region locked and sent off all of them can be deregion locked this way.
As far as I know it’s legal, too.
Will this movie lose a lot on the small screen? Should I run out to see it in the theatre?
Most definately. I saw it about a week after the Matrix 2, and it was absurdly gratifying to know that animation has a LONG way to go before it even touches some of the things that a camera can catch naturally occuring.
By the way, the title was Harry Potterized into “Travelling Birds” in Australia. I feel a little miffed about that!
I especially appreciated the almost total resistance to moralizing on the part of the filmmakers. The viewer is allowed to draw his own conclusions.
Just saw it. Definately try to see it on a big screen. Amazing flick.
I also recommend seeing it on the big screen. In fact, i rushed out and saw it a second time before it left the cinema.
I also thought the re-titling of the movie in Australia was pretty silly. I was on the phone to a friend who lives in Melbourne, and i was telling her that she should go see “Winged Migration.” She said that she hand’t heard of it, so i described it to her, and she said “That sounds like ‘Travelling Birds.’”
“Travelling Birds”??? What a dumb name!
What an incredible film! I saw it a couple of weeks ago and promptly recommended to everyone I know. I still get over how weird it was seeing all of these Canadian geese in the North American desert.
Cranky, the crab bit was honestly one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen on film. I kept thinking, “If I ever break both legs and wind up stranded on a beach somewhere, I’m in such trouble.”
Actually they rescued that bird in the end. The bird stuck in the industrial muck was also saved. But yes that scene was still intense.