Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
- human vs nature
- technology
- civilization
- social commentary
- rural area
- nature run amok
- nature
- environment
- environmental destruction
- lost civilization
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ed Asner
Self (archive footage)
Pat Benatar
Self
Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
Self (archive footage)
- Marilyn Chambers — Self (archive footage)
- Sammy Davis Jr. — Self (archive footage)
- Lou Dobbs — Self (archive footage)
- Linda Ellerbee — Self (archive footage)
- Peter Sellers — Self (archive footage)
- Thomas Dolby — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Godfrey Reggio
- Written
- Alton Walpole, Michael Hoenig, Ron Fricke, Godfrey Reggio
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 795 ratings
- Studio
- IRE Productions, Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education, American Zoetrope
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1983 · You’re hereKoyaanisqatsi
Where it starts.
Powaqqatsi
1988
Naqoyqatsi
2002
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
