c-i-n-e-m-a-t-o-g-r-a-p-h-y.
Added 4/25/2009
Get ahold of this title now before it is only available for $68. It is a masterpiece of cinematography. Two-dozen other things could be said about this film- but if you love cinematic images and widescreen photography- you are already up in the top 1% with this film. Buy it used. You snooze you lose!
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A different kind of heartfelt movie
Added 3/8/2009
Northfork, starring a talented ensemble with Mark Polish, James Woods, Nick Nolte, Michele Hicks, Anthony Edwards and Daryl Hannah, is kind of a 1950s fable. People in small Montana community are ordered to move in order to make way for a new dam. Some men, who have been promised handsome rewards, visit residents who refuse to leave. At the same time, an orphan, in a feverish coma, dreams of fantastical characters. Ultimately the two storylines blend together beautifully.
Writers Michael and Mark Polish present an unconventional screenplay. And under the guidance of director Michael Polish, the film offers some humor as well.
An unusual film by some talented and unconventional filmmakers.
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Absolute Masterpiece
Added 12/22/2008
It's difficult to convey the profoundness of this film:
It emphasizes that our loved ones alive must be cherished since there is nothing which is eternal and that their nearness and company is all there is.
It sharpens feelings of mourning for loved ones gone.
It evokes deep thoughts and feelings regarding health, compassion, attachment to physical things - land, home, a gravestone of a loved one.
The list is so long - the film is also a discussion on religion, bureaucracy, money, time, people who devote themselves for the common good - whether they are people of faith or whether they are just people of divine quality.
How the film manages to intertwine all these subjects and still come across as a coherent and profound meditation on these is beyond me, but alas it is there, an incredibly moving masterpiece, paradoxically - a proof and a validation of the beauty and ultimate divinity of humanity while at the same time being a very personal and humbling experience.
I have seen many hundreds of films, but none has affected me on so many levels, so profoundly and so vividly even years after viewing it, which in my opinion makes it absolutely and by far the best film I have ever experienced.
It is a must-see and must-own for everyone, at least those who come with the required openness and patience - and perhaps even a conscious vulnerability - to let this movie touch their very soul.
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Not for everyone
Added 10/25/2008
Let's be realistic. Angels, floods, dark and dreary landscapes, and wacky hangers-on add up to an uneven, yet moving fantasy. This is not a movie for fun. There is a smidgen of humor sprinkled about but this movie will tap on a person's soul to be let in and if you are sensitive enough you will be touched. Just take it for what it is: the earth doesn't move, the story doesn't say a great deal about anything; it just appeals to one's basic emotions. Nick Nolte is superb as the minister, James Woods is dynamite as always and the little boy IS an angel whether you want to believe him or not.
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I (unfortunately) was seduced by the jacket presentation of the DVD. Between dreams and dark reality, the film finds it difficult to take the course. Some sensitive images avoid the viewer from being engulfed by waves of fatigue.
A film truly boring and fake due to its seduction by the New Age.
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c-i-n-e-m-a-t-o-g-r-a-p-h-y.
Added 4/25/2009
Get ahold of this title now before it is only available for $68. It is a masterpiece of cinematography. Two-dozen other things could be said about this film- but if you love cinematic images and widescreen photography- you are already up in the top 1% with this film. Buy it used. You snooze you lose!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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A different kind of heartfelt movie
Added 3/8/2009
Northfork, starring a talented ensemble with Mark Polish, James Woods, Nick Nolte, Michele Hicks, Anthony Edwards and Daryl Hannah, is kind of a 1950s fable. People in small Montana community are ordered to move in order to make way for a new dam. Some men, who have been promised handsome rewards, visit residents who refuse to leave. At the same time, an orphan, in a feverish coma, dreams of fantastical characters. Ultimately the two storylines blend together beautifully.
Writers Michael and Mark Polish present an unconventional screenplay. And under the guidance of director Michael Polish, the film offers some humor as well.
An unusual film by some talented and unconventional filmmakers.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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Absolute Masterpiece
Added 12/22/2008
It's difficult to convey the profoundness of this film:
It emphasizes that our loved ones alive must be cherished since there is nothing which is eternal and that their nearness and company is all there is.
It sharpens feelings of mourning for loved ones gone.
It evokes deep thoughts and feelings regarding health, compassion, attachment to physical things - land, home, a gravestone of a loved one.
The list is so long - the film is also a discussion on religion, bureaucracy, money, time, people who devote themselves for the common good - whether they are people of faith or whether they are just people of divine quality.
How the film manages to intertwine all these subjects and still come across as a coherent and profound meditation on these is beyond me, but alas it is there, an incredibly moving masterpiece, paradoxically - a proof and a validation of the beauty and ultimate divinity of humanity while at the same time being a very personal and humbling experience.
I have seen many hundreds of films, but none has affected me on so many levels, so profoundly and so vividly even years after viewing it, which in my opinion makes it absolutely and by far the best film I have ever experienced.
It is a must-see and must-own for everyone, at least those who come with the required openness and patience - and perhaps even a conscious vulnerability - to let this movie touch their very soul.
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