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FLIGHT FROM DEATH: THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY (2005) |
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" ***** Flight from Death is something everyone needs to see, so that maybe, just maybe, we can make our peace
with death and get on with living. " -- FILM THREAT
" Moving and thought-provoking! " -- NBC NEWS
" One of the best films of the year. Period. " -- Michael Levine, Author of GUERRILLA PR |
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Catalogue No.
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ACC0048
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SRP
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A$29.95
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APN
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9333723000486
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DVD Release Date
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12 Jul 2006
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Director
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PATRICK SHEN
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Producer
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PATRICK SHEN AND GREG BENNICK
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Cast
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NARRATED BY GABRIEL BYRNE
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Genre
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Documentary
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Rating
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M - Moderate violence, Moderate theme, Infrequent moderate coarse language
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Run Time
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90 mins.
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Visual Format
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4:3
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Audio Format
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Dolby Stereo
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Language
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English
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Special Features
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The Making of "A Filmmaker's Journey";
Audio commentary by Director and Producer; Deleted Scenes; Production Stills Gallery; Trailer
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Quotes
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" ***** Flight from Death is something everyone needs to see, so that maybe, just maybe, we can make our peace
with death and get on with living. " -- FILM THREAT
" Moving and thought-provoking! " -- NBC NEWS
" One of the best films of the year. Period. " -- Michael Levine, Author of GUERRILLA PR
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Awards
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WINNER-Best Documentary Beverly Hills
Film Festival; WINNER-Best Documentary Silver Lake Film Festival; WINNER-Best Documentary Malibu Int'l Film Festival; WINNER-Best Feature Northwest Film Forum; WINNER-Best Documentary Northern Lights
Docu Festival; WINNER-Best Documentary
Rhode Island Film Festival
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Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on film. Hailed by many viewers as a "life-transformational film," FLIGHT FROM DEATH uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level.
Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist, Ernest Becker, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Denial of Death", this documentary may forever change the way we look at ourselves and the world as well as substantiating Becker's claim that death anxiety is a primary motivator of human behavior, specifically aggression and violence.
FLIGHT FROM DEATH features an all-star cast of scholars, authors, philosophers, and researchers culminating in a film that is "not only thought-provoking but also entertaining and put together with a lot of class" (Eric Campos, Film Threat). Three years in the making and beautifully photographed in eight different countries, FLIGHT FROM DEATH is "a stimulating, ultimately life-affirming film, filled with big ideas and revelatory footage" (Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times).
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