10. Baraka, 1992, Ron Fricke
A movie without dialogue, portraying the story of life in images. Anyone who doubts the benefit of HD should watch this movie. I fully agree with this description on blu-ray.com "Each scene provides awe-inspiring, reference-quality imagery that effortlessly places the viewer within each frame of the film regardless of its locale on the world's surface. It's a teleportation device of sorts, a trip around the globe that costs only as much as your HDTV, Blu-ray player, and the disc, and it's worth infinitely more than that."
The 1992 film has been fully restored, scanned in 8K directly from the 65mm negative. A process that took 3 weeks at 12.5 sec per frame to produce over 30 terra bytes of source data. Oversampled 16:1 it delivers the best possible home video quality to date, said only to be surpassed by Ron Fricke's new film Samsara which I hope to see soon. The sound also got a special HD remix in 96khz, 24bit 5.1
All this technology does not go to waste. I was already impressed with the laserdisc version, but this version draws me in even more. The perfect movie to sit back, listen to the music and sound effects and have your mind make up the narrative. Mesmerizing is the best word to describe it.
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