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| Ring of Fire-Indonesian Odyssey | | Director:
| Various | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Microcinema DVD | | Run Time:
| 300 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| October 30, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Absolutely FascinatingDec 09, 2004
By Iryna
"Iryna"
My husband saw one of the films from the series on TV and we got the complete package not too long ago. Wonderful photography, exotic landscapes and the people who seem to live in a completely different age. If you've always wanted to travel and learn about the world - this is the cheapest way to do so. And the safest as we realized after watching what the Blair brothers went through on their multiple journeys. In my opinion, it's a treasure dvd.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
INCREDIBLE ADVENTURE -- NOTHING LIKE ITNov 23, 2007
By Robin Simmons
If you like armchair adventures, don't miss this extraordinary documentary.
This is an unforgettable trip into an alternate universe that exists parallel to the so-called civilized world that we think we live in. I saw this years ago when it was on PBS. I have thought about it many times in the intervening years and had given up on ever finding it in DVD. I can't recommend RING OF FIRE too highly. Don't miss this collection. It is as good as it gets.
I wonder how much of this region remains as it was photographed? If it is lost as I fear, then this cinematic record is even more valuable.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Classic adventure travelsOct 10, 2008
By David J. Delaurant
Saw this when it appeared on PBS back in the 1980s and later read the companion book. Loved both, mainly for the style of narration used and the sense of real adventure these works managed to preserve. The film stock is pretty rough by today's standards, but time changes everything and these capture the zeitgeist of their time and place -- and such exotic places! I wish Lorne Blair would hurry up and reincarnate.
I also wish National Geographic would get around to republishing "Bali: masterpiece of the Gods" on DVD...
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
InspiringSep 29, 2009
By Lisa M. Rosati
I first rented this series 20 years ago, and have been obsessed with the art and culture
of south Asia ever since.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
IncredibleJul 14, 2010
By Standard and Poor
"S&P"
This is a simply incredible set of documentaries culled from film footage two brothers amassed during years of living and traveling in remote regions of Indonesia including Bali and Borneo in the 70's. I was really fascinated by this. I discovered it only recently thanks to a YouTube video of a clip from one of the films about a "healer" they meet who apparently develops supernatural abilities from "meditation every day". Mysteriously, much of what I saw on YouTube doesn't appear in the actual documentary so I'm at a loss as to where that came from...I would really like to see as much of this adventure as I can get my hands on. One caveat: this set comes with a "Return to..." DVD which shows much more contemporary footage of some of the same areas the filmmakers visited 35 years ago. This was extremely depressing as the tourist industry has irrevocably changed them and in my opinion, only for the worse. The native people are outnumbered by westerners with backpacks and water bottles and contact has turned the beaches into resorts and the islands into gift shops. Where the filmmakers originally spent weeks on the deck of a battered ship watching for pirates, sleeping with cockroaches, and subsisting on rice, you now see people fly into a modern airport, collect their luggage, and catch a cab. Gone is the mystery, bold risk, and adventure, only to be replaced by a staged tour of native stereotypes, phony tribal ceremonies, and camcorder memories of the hyper-real. An unfortunate, if predictable, ending to a daring saga.
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