Your Favorite IMAX Films are Back for a Limited Time Only!
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Presents the IMAX Film Festival January 1–March 15, 2007
DENVER—December 11, 2006—Back by popular demand, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will present some of the most popular and exciting IMAX films ever made during the IMAX Film Festival, January 1 through March 15, 2007.
Visitors to the Museum’s Web site voted for their favorite films, and the top six IMAX films were selected for the festival. They include some of the most stunning, memorable, and popular IMAX films that have been shown at the Phipps IMAX Theater since its opening in 1983, including:
Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure (2001)
Based on the best selling book The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, this film tells the dramatic tale of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914–1916 British Trans-Antarctic Expedition. While never accomplishing its goal of the first crossing of the Antarctic continent, this expedition has become a testament to heroism and human endurance with its men surviving nearly two years in the barren frigid Antarctic after their ship was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed.
Everest (1998)
Everest is the dramatic true story of a team of climbers who found hope, strength, and triumph in the wake of tragedy. Their successful ascent of Mount Everest just days after fellow mountaineers and friends died there, is a compelling story about the human spirit and a mountain they love, respect, and sometimes fear. Everest takes you across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous towering cliffs, through a harrowing rescue, and into the danger zone of oxygen-thin altitude.
Dolphins (2000)
From the dazzling coral reefs of the Bahamas to the wind-swept seas of Patagonia, Dolphins takes audiences under the water’s surface for a romp with inquisitive Atlantic spotted dolphins, acrobatic dusky dolphins, and the familiar bottlenose dolphin of Flipper fame. From rarely seen fish-herding behavior to a close-up look at complex communications activities, Dolphins will give you a fascinating new perspective on the lives of dolphins and their remarkable intelligence.
Africa the Serengeti (1994)
This film introduces us to a spectacle that few humans have ever witnessed, the Great Migration, taking us on a journey with over 1.5 million animals as they travel more than 500 miles across the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and Kenya. This film is a tribute to the wildebeest as they set out on a yearlong odyssey. It is also a documentary featuring a fascinating array of animals including zebras, giraffes, elephants, monkeys, baboons, and even hyenas, jackals and vultures, with an abundance of animal trivia.
Blue Planet (1990)
A space film about Earth, Blue Planet gives us an experience of our home planet that, until now, has only been shared by astronauts. Spectacular scenes from space, filmed aboard several space shuttle missions, are intercut with scenes of the Earth’s surface, clearly showing the powerful forces that affect our planet. Volcanoes, earthquakes, and typhoons are depicted—but it is the signs of pollution, ozone depletion, deforestation and energy consumption as seen from space that reveal the more disturbing human impact.
Seasons (1987)
Poetry meets technology in this film about the cycle of the seasons. Accompanied by Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” the film takes us on a breathtaking trip through the eruption of spring, the growth of summer, the harvest and festivity of autumn, and the dormancy of winter. The beauty of the seasons is interspersed with a look at the Earth as a planet, the Sun as a star, and the human quest to understand the relationship between the two.
IMAX Ticket Prices: Tickets to Phipps IMAX Theater are $8 for adults, and $6 for juniors (ages 3–18) and seniors (ages 65+). Museum members pay $5 for adults and $4 for juniors and seniors. Combination Museum/IMAX tickets are available for $15 for adults and $10 for juniors and seniors. For more information, call 303-322-7009 or check www.dmns.org.
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