Product Details

• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mystic Fire Video
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303504159
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #347,171 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Immersive beauty...., September 30, 2002

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Careful Critic (Lexington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Imaginary Landscapes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Yeah, some people will dig this and some people won't... It's slow, ethereal, occasionally drifting and occasionally stirring... If you can lean back and let a sensual experience fill your senses, then you will enjoy this mightily. If you require more content and substance, it won't be so much your thing.

The Eno interview footage is regrettable sparse (though the limited amount of it is very enlightening, and the "punch line" at the end is quietly hilarious), but the sensual content is extraordinary, so if you go in knowing what to expect, perhaps you will appreciate it for exactly what it is.

For the record, I think the final shot of the sun setting over the water, with the horizon vanishing between the sun and its own reflection, is perhaps the most beautiful scene I have ever witnessed on film. They definitely saved the best for last in a film rife with both tranquil and striking imagery.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars (Un)Imaginary Blandscapes, August 4, 2000

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William Fricke (St. Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Imaginary Landscapes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Being a huge fan of Eno's music and his methods of making that music, I thought this might be an interesting peek inside the life and/or mind of this talented musician/producer. Nope. The film starts off with promise in that you do see Eno in his studio dicussing sounds, ideas, etc. It then begins the first in a series of increasingly irritating (in my mind) "landscape" shots with his music playing over the top. You may get a snippet of conversation here and there, but it mostly is just bad films of open highways, clouds and scenery shot from a car with his music over the top. I fell asleep the first time I watched it. I tried again the next day thinking I was just tired. Nope. It's just that dull.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary, December 16, 2005

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jude (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Imaginary Landscapes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film changed my whole approach to film. To me it's revolutionary. (Its best seen as a film piece rather than an exposition of the life and times of Brian Eno.) I like the fact that it has space between the dialogue with the montages of film and music. The disjunction between dialogue and imagery is provacative. I particularly like the juxtaposition of the seemingly random comments about wildlife contrasting with the technical aspects of both the commentary of Eno on his art and the way the film is edited.

Like some of the other film makers I admire---Sally Potter, Jarmusch, Herzog---the style of this film allows the viewer in by creating a sense of space and wonder.

I hope this comes out on DVD soon.