The Life of Birds
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Actor: David AttenboroughBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 580 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Video
Movie Reviews of The Life of Birds
Movie Review: Life is creal but it would help if DVD brough a little bit of beauty
Summary: 2 Stars
This series are very good quality narated but I had a little bit
of problem with the subject matter: yes , everything is true but it is very sad
and bleak survival of the birds; no artistic effor of making the birds look interesting,
beautiful or exotic, no chapter of birds singing or diference of voices in general
which could be quite exciting topic to cover. No beutiful music in it as well..
It is too scientifically coldly made no passion or effors has been made to invision
the birds with admiration and amusement: no hint of beauty in the birds or lyrical
attemt to show how special birds are,it is very cold even very true
observaton. I do not want sugar coated series as well but have a little bit poetry
will help. I saw preview of different series and seeems to me all have the same
attitude : the series are about hardship but the real life has everything ,
they try to make you scare as auction film which I try to avoid most of the time.
I am sure that it is not only hardship in life but a beauty and music and art of seeing it..
Here is everything so intense and sad... even scary. It is very plain reflection of the life
of birds.
Where is the joy in the birds life? I am sure that we do not look at the birds
with very narrow cold analitical eyes but we enjoy the birds songs,
admire their beauty and grace and colors as fabulous variety :
I think the producer should to find differnt appoach to this series.
I liked he series but it is too simplistic...
The glory , romantic beauty, music of Art of Nature which is exist and made
but was not included in this series. So many composers wrote music on this topic.
Lay in the grass in the woods in the sunny day and listen the birds!! After make the series..
Summary of The Life of Birds
THIS POPULAR & DEFINITIVE SERIES ON THE MOST COLORFUL, POPULAR & PERFECTLY ADAPTED CREATURES ON EARTH.Like the albatross glimpsed in the beginning of this 10-part, 5-volume series, The Life of Birds quickly takes flight. Sir David Attenborough hosts this unprecedented and extraordinary global look at the magnificent and often curious winged species with which we share our planet. Like the best wildlife shows, The Life of Birds offers a fresh and accessible view of creatures we may take for granted (didn't Alfred Hitchcock warn us about that?). The focus of this series is not on the different bird species, but on bird behavior. Remarkable and awe-inspiring footage preserves the wide range of tools and techniques with which birds fly, hunt for food, attract a mate, hatch their chicks, and defend themselves against predators.
Each volume contains two episodes. Series titles include: "To Fly or Not to Fly?," "The Mastery of Flight," "The Insatiable Appetite," "Meat Eaters," "Fishing for a Living," Signals and Songs," "Finding Partners" (the inevitable mating episode), "The Demands of the Egg," "The Problems of Parenthood," and "The Limits of Endurance." One comedic diversion while watching this series is the Pythonesque (as in Monty) way in which Attenborough pops up in the most remote, most exotic locales. At one point, night-vision cameras capture the rare sight of the nocturnal kiwi as it forages for food on a New Zealand beach. The camera pans to reveal scant paces away our guide shining a flashlight on the nonplussed bird. Attenborough is also the creator of the classic natural-science series The Trials of Life, The Living Planet, and Life on Earth, all of which are also available on video. --Donald Liebenson
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