| View Larger Image | Ice People | DVDStarring: Allan A. Ashworth, Adam R. Lewis, Andrew Podoll, Kelly Gorz
Directed By: Anne Aghion
Also With: Sylvestre Guidi (Cinematographer), Laurent Petitgand (Composer), Nadia Ben Rachid (Editor)
| List Price: | $29.95 | | Price: | $26.99 | | You Save: | $2.96 (10%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 77 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Passion River | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.85:1 | | Release Date: | November 17, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 46,105th |
|
EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Studio: Repnet Llc Release Date: 11/10/2009 Run time: 77 minutes |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 5 reviews)
|
Wonderful Exploration Film by Dr. P L Barsanti (New Jersey)  5 Stars
November 07, 2009
I first watched this on Sundance Channel & knew I had to share this film with my friends that are science and exploration fans. The documentary leaves you with mixed emotions on what it must be like to stay for months in one of the most remote locations on Earth. It's an amazing journey with unexpected scientific discoveries.
| |
the authentic experience of researchers in antarctica by K. Frazier 5 Stars
July 01, 2009
This is an amazing look at the people who inhabit Antarctica today. These are modern day explorers venturing deep into the interior to conduct climate research, and also the men and women who keep McMurdo Base running. An up close and intimate look at living and working in Antarctica. No penguins. Beautiful cinematography. Really amazing views that I have never scene before. Definitely worth the watch.
| |
Wonderfully shot, by John Chang (Los Angeles, CA) 5 Stars
June 23, 2009
This is a beautifully shot film, a must see in high-definition. There is no over-dramatization or attempt to alter the reality of life of researchers in the world's toughest research facility--Antarctica. The serendipitous discovery of the fossil by the small team of researchers captured in the film is a bonus (it later made big news, which indicated that the Polar region was much warmer than previously thought) If you appreciate the artistry of good film-making, this one is not to be missed.
| |
Reply to Mr. Vanderveen's review by Sharon (New York, NY USA) 5 Stars
March 05, 2009
In Mr. Vanderveen's review, he complains that some of the conversations in ICE PEOPLE were staged, and that the filmmaker, Anne Aghion, had a particular point of view about those conversations. As a representative of the film, I would like to clarify that ICE PEOPLE is an experiential film--it's meant to give you the feeling of what it's really like to be working in science in the world's most remote and extreme environment. As such, it would have defeated the director's own intention, as well as that of the scientists, students and support staff who participated, to have staged any of the conversations between people appearing in this film. I'm sorry Mr. Vanderveen didn't enjoy the movie, but I wanted to make sure that the facts were correctly presented. (By the way, take a look at the ICE PEOPLE website for a slew of wonderful reviews from scientists, movie critics, students etc.)
| |
Big disappointment by Cornelis J. Vanderveen (Kansas City KS)  2 Stars
January 27, 2009
Antarctica is a beautiful continent and one of the last few pristine places left on Earth. The vast expanses of ice almost beg for any photographer to go there and convey the story of the continent to those who cannot experience it first-hand.
This movie follows a group of four geologists on their science trip to the continent. The views are impressive indeed. But, after ten minutes or so, it's like watching grass grow, or snow blow across the Minnesota Plains. There is no explanation of what these geologists are doing in Antarctica (as an aside, the Dry Valleys, where these geologists are conducting their research, are not exactly representative of the continent - there's no ice there!). We hear one of them talking about how scientists seek answers to questions. That's fair enough, but having sat through the entire movie, I'm still not sure what the question was. Sure, some general reference to "Global Warming" and its potential impacts, but how does finding a few fossil leaves fit into this? And then we jump back and forth, it seems, from McMurdo to the remote Dry Valleys camp (note that nowhere in the movie is it mentioned that we're in the Dry Valleys), and to somewhere else. Anyone who has not been there is by now likely to be lost.
And there's the students. Two PhD scientists and two grad students participated in the trip. We see the "real" scientists (mostly the younger one) dig enthusiastically and find the fossil leaves. The grad students are relegated to walking around with what looked like GPS antennas - for what? Maybe this is how this particular team operated, but it's hardly representative for US field programs where everyone, students and profs alike, have to pull their weight and contribute equally to the success of the field season. Here, the students came across as excess baggage.
Ah, and the staged discussions are annoying, to say the least. Maybe the team had some discussions about Science and Religion, but the few seconds in the movie were utterly unconvincing and came across as truly staged - including the senior prof scrubbing a pan while explaining his views on Science (true, of course) and Religion (the loser, of course). And the Christian student seemed uncomfortable throughout the entire discussion.
None of the scientists, students, and support personnel are introduced throughout the movie. At the end, there's a list of names "in order of appearance" - as if you can remember who came first after watching this for 77 minutes.
Maybe this is the way to present Science in Antarctica in a "artistically correct" way. I found this movie utterly boring and I'm glad I didn't spend the few hundred bucks for the "Educational" version (allowing me to show this in class). I certainly won't show this in class, or, for that matter, anywhere else.
You might want to consider the OSCAR-nominated "Encounters at the End of the World" instead.
| |
SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Encounters at the End of the World
Starring: David Ainley, Samuel S. Bowser, Regina Eisert, Kevin Emery, Ryan Andrew Evans
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Also With: Werner Herzog (Writer), Andrea Meditch (Producer), Dave Harding (Producer), Erik Nelson (Producer), Henry Kaiser (Producer), Julian Hobbs (Producer), Phil Fairclough (Producer)
Welcome to antarctica - like youve never experienced it. Youve seen the extraordinary marine life the retreating glaciers and of course the penguins but leave it to award winning iconoclastic filmmaker werner herzog to be the first to explore the south poles most fascinating inhabitants..Humans. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 101 minutes Rating: G
| 
| The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Pole
by Stuart Klipper (Photographer), Guy Guthridge (Photographer), William L. Fox (Photographer), Steven Pyne (Photographer)
Antarctica remains largely unknown and infinitely fascinating. Stuart Klipper has traveled to Antarctica six times in twenty years to photograph this astounding body of work offering a sweeping look at this majestic continent which has lately become central to global climate change concerns. Shot in panoramic format—the only way to encompass a landscape that seems to stretch on forever—Klipper's work captures major features and surprising details: ships suspended in the frozen sea ...
| | | The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)
From The Ice: "It appears out of the fog and low clouds, like a white comet in the twilight.
To enter Greater Antarctica is to be drawn into a maelstrom of ice. Ice is the beginning of Antarctica and ice is its end. As one moves from perimeter to interior, the proportion of ice relentlessly increases. Ice creates more ice, and ice defines ice. Everything else is suppressed. This is a world derived from a single substance, water, in a single crystalline state, snow, transformed into a...
| 
| The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Starring: Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow, David Cale, John Henry Cox
Directed By: George Butler
Also With: George Butler (Producer), Bowe Ferrer (Producer), Caroline Alexander (Producer), Caroline Alexander (Writer), Dr. John M. Levinson (Producer), Edward R. Pressman (Producer), Joseph Dorman (Writer)
Narrated by liam neeson. In august 1914 sir ernest shackleton set sail with 27 men on his ship the endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the antarctic continent. Considered by experts to be the greatest adventure ever. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/28/2008 Run time: 97 minutes Rating: G Director: George Butler
| 
| Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
by Sara Wheeler (Author)
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world. This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in...
|
|
|
