{"id":9563,"date":"2014-09-03T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2014-09-03T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T20:42:05","slug":"dvd-dolphins-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9563","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Dolphins! (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Dolphins_IMAX\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Very Good<\/p>\n

Transfer<\/strong>: \u00a0Very Good<\/p>\n

Extras<\/strong>: Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0<\/strong>Image Entertainment<\/p>\n

Region:<\/strong>\u00a01 (NTSC)<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0 June 29, 2004<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Documentary \/ IMAX<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0IMAX documentary on dolphins and their unique abilities and high intelligence.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Making-of Documentary \/ MacGillivray Freeman Films Trailers<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oscar- nominated for Best Documentary \u2013 Short Subjects<\/em><\/p>\n

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Greg MacGillivray\u2019s 40 min. doc manages to transcend the dangers of being a full travelogue by allowing genuine experts tell their own respective (and ongoing) experiences with dolphins. Contributing star Pierce Brosnan provides bridge narration as Kathleen Dudzinski explains her quest to codify the verbal and physical language of these highly intelligent mammals, while Dean Bernal revisits the same dolphin he\u2019s been meeting in shallow waters for 15 straight years<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>Also shown are different dolphin species in the Bahamas and Mexico, feeding practices, fleeting mating tactics, playfulness, and their vulnerabilities at the hand of man due to tuna nets, disease, and danger from passing boats.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s primary stars may be the dolphin species, but Brad Ohlund and MacGillivray\u2019s cinematography and the extraordinary underwater images are the co-stars. Beautifully edited, Dolphins<\/strong> has some stunning montages, but it\u2019s the slow dissolves which support the elegance and mystique of the films\u2019 eponymous subjects. Sting\u2019s songs and the thematic material (as remixed \/ orchestrated by Steve Wood) does on occasion transcend palpable, saccharine elements, but there are batches of lyrics that remain pungently cloying.<\/p>\n

Image\u2019s DVD features a dual layer disc sporting separate DTS and Dolby encoded versions of the film, plus a making-of doc packed with great interviews, self-reflective moments, and short addendums to some of the looser elements within the film, such as the sad fate of two ailing dolphins whose fates were not covered in the final edit. (Most of the footage is original, but there are some intro shots culled from the similarly structured making-of doc on\u00a0The Living Sea<\/strong>, also released on DVD by Image.<\/p>\n

The DVD transfer is fine, but this is clearly a film that benefits more from a Blu-ray edition, since the filmmakers allowed their patience to be tested over 4 years to gather the film\u2019s striking images, using chunky, loud IMAX cameras whirring less than 2 mins. of usable film in the underwater housing.<\/p>\n

Ohlund also filmed parts of MacGillivray\u2019s To Fly!<\/a><\/strong> (1976), and several related IMAX docs including The Discoverers <\/strong>(1993), Stormchasers<\/strong> (1995), and Magic of Flight <\/strong>(1996). Co-writer Tim Cahill also wrote MacGillivray\u2019s The Living Sea<\/strong><\/a> (1995) and Everest<\/strong> (1998).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Soundtrack Album<\/a> —\u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a>
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Greg MacGillivray\u2019s 40 min. doc manages to transcend the dangers of being a full travelogue by allowing genuine experts tell their own respective (and ongoing) experiences with dolphins. Contributing star Pierce Brosnan provides bridge narration as Kathleen Dudzinski explains her quest to codify the verbal and physical language of these highly intelligent mammals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2996,2989,54,2997,2998],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2uf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9589,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions\/9589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}