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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0717119114848 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Letterboxed, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC Label: New Yorker Films Video / Cinema Guild Languages: Manufacturer: New Yorker Films Video / Cinema Guild Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Yorker Films Video / Cinema Guild Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 30, 2008 Running Time: 93 minutes Studio: New Yorker Films Video / Cinema Guild Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Editorial Review: Product Description: The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head-to-head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. When an ambitious real estate developer sets out to transform thousands of acres of pristine hill country around Austin, Texas into a suburban development threatening a nearby natural spring and local treasure the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see in miniature the struggle between development and preservation that today plays out in cities and towns across the country. A work of stunning visual beauty and epic scope, The Unforeseen is a grand meditation on the destruction of the natural world in pursuit of an often fleeting dream. Special Features: - AUDIO COMMENTARY by Director Laura Dunn - SECOND AUDIO COMMENTARY by Producer & Motion Graphics Designer Jef Sewell, Cinematographer Lee Daniel and Sound Designer Tom Hammond - THEATRICAL TRAILER - ENGLISH 5.1 SOUNDTRACK - ESSAY BY FILM CRITIC DENNIS LIM - SCENE SELECTIONS A BEAUTIFUL, SOULFUL work about real estate development and sprawl... and if you think that s impossible you haven t seen it. Andrew O Hehir, SALON.COM A GORGEOUS, LYRICAL documentary. J.R. Jones, CHICAGO READER A STUNNINGLY GRAND and BEAUTIFUL movie. Mark Nichol, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Average Rating:
 Rating: - Moving, thought provoking, and wonderfulThe Unforeseen is a multi-hued perspective on several different issues such as urban sprawl, pollution, unchecked development, and environmental impacts that can result from these events. Additionally, there are examinations of the imbalances between overwhelming financial interests versus the considerations of public sentiment and the ways of life of surrounding communities. The primary focus in this story is a beautiful and desirable community in Austin, Texas known as Barton Creek ... Read More Rating: - ChillingI first saw this film at the San Francisco Film festival. For more than a year I've waited anxiously for the DVD release. Finally, I can see it again and share it with family and friends. The film struggled to get released because producers thought it too 'regional'. The narrative revolves around one specific instance of land development in Austin, Texas. Yet the conflict central to the film, the battle between development and establishment, is common to every place and to contemporary ... Read More Rating: - UnforgettableThis is a wonderful documentary about "development" which focuses primarily on one case in Austin, but is really asking questions about the entire society's choices and values. The filmmakers leave no secret about where their opinions lie on the commentary track, but this is not a one sided Michael Moore type film. Wendell Berry reads from his work over the opening scene and Patty Griffin's Someone Else's Tomorrow plays over the closing credits. In between you get everything from Bush and ... Read More |
