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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0767685991831 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: NEW VIDEO GROUP Languages: Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP MPN: D9918D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: NEW VIDEO GROUP Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 25, 2007 Running Time: 73 minutes Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Editorial Review: Product Description: Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban Southern California. This award-winning film from directors Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer details the rise and fall of the Salton Sea, from its heyday as the "California Riviera" where boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state of decaying, forgotten ecological disaster. From wonderland to wasteland, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA captures a place far more interesting than the shopping malls and parking lots of suburban America, a wacky world where a beer-swilling Hungarian Revolutionary, a geriatric nudist, and a religious zealot building a monument to God all find solace and community. Crisply and hilariously narrated by oddball auteur John Waters, and featuring music by desert lounge rockers Friends of Deans Martinez, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA melds high camp with stark realism, offering both a sobering message about the consequences of tampering with nature and a heart-warming tale of individualism. DVD Features: Audio Commentaries with Filmmakers and Salton Sea Locals; Lost Interviews; Deleted Scenes; LEONARD & THE MOUNTAIN Short Film; MIRACLE IN THE DESERT Real Estate Promotional Film; FRUIT OF THE VINE Vignette on the Salton Sea Skateboarding Scene; LSD A GO GO Short Film; CONSUMING FIRE Music Shot at the Salton Sea; Filmmaker Biographies; Short Film on Friends of Dean Martinez Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good and WierdJohn Waters: Historian. He does a great job. Makes me want to visit the Salton Sea someday myself. Rating:  - The Anti Tourist VideoPlagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea is sort of an anti tourist video. The film chronicles the story of California's Salton Sea from tourist destination in the 1950's and 60's to its present state of ecological decay. Narrated by John Waters, the film interviews people who live in the various towns surrounding the Sea and they discuss what the area once was compared to what it is now and on to what it may yet become in the future. I did not find this to be the powerful ... Read More Rating: - Truth is stranger than fictionI've been to this place several times in the last 6 years. Could it be I am addicted to dead Tilapia or is it the mystique, desolation and strange beauty of the area? The documentary becomes surreal after you have visited. I have watched the film so many times I am embarrassed to say. It has a really good feel and is thought provoking. I wonder what ever happpened to the mostly aging characters. I wonder why the DVD cost $2 more here than on their web site Rating: - Excellent Documentary!I watched this on the Sundance Channel and had to buy it immediately. Well done and found the residents to be very interesting people. Definitely not your run of the mill video. Rating: - Bizarre and educational!! A strange place in the California desertPlagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea is a rarity -- a film about an (apparent) ecological disaster and the strange and remarkable and funny stories and lifestyles that built themselves around it. The Salton Sea was created in about 1905 when the Colorado River was diverted to irrigate farms nearby and the runoff formed a lake in the Salton Sink, just 20 miles off the coast of Palm Springs. In the '50s it was promoted aggressively as a tourist spot and real estate boomed -- but then due to a number ... Read More |
