Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 24, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Peter Sellars & John Adams | |
Directed by | Jon Else | |
Narrated by | Eric Owens | |
Composition by | John Adams | |
Produced by | Jon Else & Bonni Cohen | |
Director of Photography: | Jon Else, Jon Shenk & Michael Chin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
By the end, the beautifully shot Wonders Are Many has both probed issues of moral responsibility and scientific curiosity, and paid homage to the strange transcendence that can attend any anticipation of a thing created.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
The film oddly attempts to combine the backstage production footage with history-lesson segments. While skillfully crafted, the two stories never quite mesh, and neither go deep enough to work on their own.
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Film Threat
Rating: 3/4 --
Jon Else's unusual and sometimes beautiful film documents a rare cultural moment when art, history and science collided: The making of composer John Adams and director/librettist Peter Sellar's opera Doctor Atomic.
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TV Guide
A masterful distillation of explosive elements: science, art, psychology and humanity.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Why one should see this film is the chance to see John Adams in action.
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Cinema Signals
Rating: 4/5 --
Enthralling documentary.
New York Times
Rating: 3/6 --
Jon Else's taut chronicle, fashioned from vivid scenes of creativity and conflict, mostly coheres despite a few wayward strands. But disappointingly, Adams's purely musical choices are largely left unexamined.
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Time Out
Product Description:
The atomic bomb may seem an unlikely subject for an opera, but director Peter Sellars has always strayed far from the conventional. This documentary follows Sellars and composer John Adams as they embark on their ambitious collaboration, DOCTOR ATOMIC, which tells the story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and one of mankind's darkest inventions.
Description by New Video Group :
The spectacular opening to Jon Else's critically acclaimed WONDERS ARE MANY - nuclear blast after blast in the desert, under the ocean, high in space - intimates what is to follow: a profound and triumphant fusing of art and science, humanity and technology, destruction and creation.
WONDERS ARE MANY: THE MAKING OF DOCTOR ATOMIC traces a dazzling double-helix trajectory: one thread follows composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars as they work to create Doctor Atomic, the strange and beautiful opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the first atomic bomb; the other recounts the actual historical events that underpin the stage drama. Masterfully interwoven with recently declassified footage of nuclear testing in the deserts of the Southwest and the frenetic backstage action of the San Francisco Opera, the film creates an explosive vortex of performers and physicists, past and present, all of which is anchored by the enigmatic figure of Oppenheimer and channeled into high art by the creative power of Adams and Sellars.
A magnificent pastiche of potent elements, WONDERS ARE MANY allows us to see history - and ourselves - in a new light: we learn the humanity in science; the regret in discovery; and, unforgettably, the law that "matter can be neither created nor destroyed," but only transformed.
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- Sales Rank: 60,308
- UPC: 767685146170
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