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VHS : Where the Green Ants DreamIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett, Norman Kaye directed by: Werner Herzog  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302405682 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6302405688 Label: Xenon Entertainment Manufacturer: Xenon Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1993-08 Publisher: Xenon Entertainment Release Date: July 24, 1992 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: Xenon Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 1985 Sales Rank: 19072 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Director Werner Herzog is famous for the deranged physical feats he captures in his movies, but Where the Green Ants Dream tackles an even greater challenge: The gap between the Western mind and Australian aboriginal cosmology. In the Australian outback, a geologist for a mining company (Bruce Spence, The Road Warrior, Aquamarine) finds his work obstructed by aborigines who tell him that his explosive tests will disrupt the dreaming of the green ants and wreak havoc on humanity. The mining company tries to mollify the aborigines, but they implacably resist. The confrontation escalates to a lawsuit argued before the Australian supreme court (which is based on the first legal battle over aboriginal land rights). This may sound dry--and much of the film is bathed in gusts of red Australian dust--but throughout the film, the geologist struggles to communicate with the aborigines and grasp the fundamentally different perception of the world. His glimpse (and ours) of this other worldview turns Western civilization on its side and leads the geologist to question his whole life. Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man) isn't subtle, but that doesn't diminish the often hypnotic power of his images, from footage of tornados to the faces of the aborigines, gentle as water yet as firm as stones. This is a worthy addition to Herzog's difficult, thrilling, maddening, and ultimately rewarding body of work. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Well Meaning, but...I have a great deal of respect for Werner Herzog and have been moved by many of his films, but unfortunately this isn't one of them. Stunning visuals. The Australian Bush is an amazing sight. An Aboriginal face has something about it that makes you think you're looking back through all 40,000 years of their history, into something wise and mystical. "Are you enjoying the movie?" I was asked after 30 minutes. "I'm still waiting for it to start." I'm sorry, ... Read More Rating:  - FATA MORGANA!Werner Herzog is the perfect and unique embodiment of the always worried, irreverent, unsatisfied and non conformist director that enjoys to walk on the razor edge and delights to expose limit situations at the eve of reach the boiling point. That's why his entire cinematography has been signed for newness and original proposals, featured by unexplored territories and unthinkable stages. In this case, we assist to the clash of two civilizations, visibly differenced , the ancestral ... Read More Rating: - This movie become more topical as time passesModern civilization and primitive tribal groups do not have the same worldview - and it is this discrepancy that is examined in Werner Herzog's excellent Australian film. A mining company has located a terrific reserve of valuable uranium in the desert of the outback...but the only problem is that the Aboriginal elders are guarding this land as one of their holiest sites..for here the green ants dream. These green ants - actually green termites, have a special sense that orients them ... Read More Rating:  - Where the Red Tape Rules."Where the Green Ants Dream" remains one of Werner Herzog's most intriguing feature films. Its release was sandwiched in between the controversies, hardships and media outrage of "Fitzcarraldo" and the emotional difficulties of Herzog's final collaboration with Klaus Kinski on "Cobra Verde." The film doesn't quite possess the myth and legend of other Herzog features and as a result as quietly drifted into semi-obscurity. The director himself has aided this drift by his reluctance to discuss the film, as if by his ... Read More Rating: - Herzog's Mad MaxI have never seen a Herzog film I haven't liked, just some more than others. This is an in-betweener, but excellent, as always. Similar in stark landscapes to "Fata Morgana", "Where the Green Ants Dream" offers barren vistas, mounds of dirt, holes in the ground, and apocalyptic hovels. The character of the anthropologist sums up the film best when he describes modern Western technology and what it has done to the biosphere as a man on a train who knows the tracks ahead are out and all he can do is run to the rear ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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