KOYAANISQATSI IS COMING TO DVD! One of my favorite “head films” (Geez, I’m really dating myself with language like that) is coming to DVD as early as this fall. Despite its unreadable title, Koyaanisqatsi is a dazzling film, filled with stunning time-lapse, slow motion and speeded up cinematography overlaid on top of the music of Philip Glass. (It also has a not very subtle pro-environment, anti-human and anti-technology bias to it, but there’s no dialogue, and the film is ambiguous enough to also be read (as Roger Ebert noted) as a film celebrating the incredible cities and structures that man can build.)

One of the best movie double-bills I’ve ever attended, was when Philadelphia’s TLA (Theater of the Living Arts) Theater showed Koyaanisqatsi and 2001: A Space Odyssey one Saturday night in the mid-1980s. (You didn’t need drugs to feel like a space cadet after viewing those two movies back to back.) I’ve owned a laser disc copy of Koyaanisqatsi ever since, and can’t wait to get it on DVD.

In any case, here’s what the Digital Bits has to say about the subject:

we've gotten word that the classic 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi, which depicts life in motion in all its visual splendor, is finally coming to DVD. In late January IRE and MGM reached an amicable agreement that will allow the release of Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi on DVD as early as the Fall of this year, hopefully coordinated with the theatrical release of Naqoyqatsi by Miramax. Naqoyqatsi's release will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Koyaanisqatsi.