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Manufacturer: Miramax
Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
Starring: Liam Neeson, Lhakpa Dorji, Dorje Sherpa, Ed Viesturs, Muktu Lhakpa Sherpa

Directed By: David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson

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Relive a breathtaking journey to the top of the world with EVEREST, the spectacular giant-screen motion picture for IMAX theatres! Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, EVEREST documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help surviving members of the ill-fated group. Join an international team of climbers as they scale the world's tallest peak. Witness the perils of skin-blistering cold, violent blizzards that drop the windchill to minus 100 degrees, and air so thin it numbs the mind. EVEREST will take you across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs and into the death zone of oxygen-thin altitude. Filmed in spellbinding IMAX photography, "the most hyperrealistic format yet invented," says producer Greg MacGillivray. Narrated by Academy Award(R)-nominee Liam Neeson, including the music of George Harrison, EVEREST is a rich, dramatic story -- a daring adventure of triumph and tragedy.


DESCRIPTION:

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
EAN: 9780788814938
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0788814931
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: IMAX
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1999-12-07
Running Time: 44
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 1998-03-06


ACCESSORIES:

• Everest: Soundtrack From The IMAX Film Experience


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the Mountain
• Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
• NOVA - Everest: The Death Zone
• Touching the Void
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very well done - and left me wanting more
Comment: Having just a wee bit of climbing experience, it is absolutely unfathomable how they got the IMAX equipment up there to film this. Absolute beautiful cinematography, and an exciting story make this film a winner, and left me wanting for more. This is an IMAX film, so it's rather short (they all are) but I had wished that they could have made an additional film that delved more into the tragedies that they witnessed that day. That said, this is a definite *must see*, well done, informative movie with breathtaking scenes.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Eye candy only
Comment: If you're into eye candy, this will fit the bill. But given the context of the 1996 disaster on Everset and Krakauer's book about it, this is a strange film, made during a historic disaster on Everest and barely mentioning it even though the film crew was part of the attempt at the rescue. It's very odd that this whole thing is only about 45 minutes, given the scale and scope of what happened in May 1996. As for that, the best part of the DVD is the extended interview with Beck Weathers, in the bonus stuff, not in the film itself. Here in the obligatory thrown in stuff you have the real story of what really happened in May 1996 on Everest. Beck Is a movie unto himself, as is the whole May 10-12 effort of everyone who was up there then, including the Imax film project. Their efforts to help the stranded hikers way up above, including offering to give up oxygen tanks to potential rescue teams, gets barely a mention. Come on! Give yourselves some credit other than in the Bonus Material! In the main, this is a self-indulgent piece of cinematography, fun to look at, but edited in the wrong way for the conditions under which it was actually filmed and in which the film crew actually experienced the disaster. It had the potential to capitalize on its situation, adapt, adopt abd improvise, but it seems that the predetermined script held sway. Consider also most of what is in the bonus features--the suits, sitting on snow capped peaks (not Everest) much later talking about how the goal of the movie was to make a movie and bring some heavy camera equipment to the top of Everest. They missed a historic opportunity to grab what happened and instead stuck to just a mundane let's-get-the-camera-to-the-top visual spectacular.

Don't buy it, and if you really must, just rent it. Read Jon Krakauer instead.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazong footage
Comment: The footage was absolutely beautiful on this video. However, I wish it were a little longer and had gone into more detail.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Yet another Everest film, but routine
Comment: Filmed depictions of the ascent of Mt. Everest are beginning to pile up like firewood. This one's claim to fame is that it is in the IMAX format. However, I watched it at home on a regular screen, and that renders it very routine compared to some others I've seen. Moreover, this climb coincided with a far more fateful one in which several climbers perished. The people in this film seem to make it to the top like rabbits and then hurry back down with no drama whatsoever. Left unaddressed in this film, and in many Everest films, is the question is why these people risk their lives when this climb has become almost routine? It seems to be a personal goal for most, but the chances of dying are so high as to create questions of sanity.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Everest DVD
Comment: HI, was so grateful to get this DVD....loved it. Thanks for sending it so fast and I thought the movie was good as I had recently hiked to the base camp of Mt. Everest and what a blessing it was to see where I had just been. You are awesome. Thanks!!! xo

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