by Fred (follow us on Facebook) While doing some reading in preparation for an upcoming post, I came across this old gem. You’d be forgiven for not knowing this was Brian Eno. (Still image alert.) That’s from the 1984 David Lynch film Dune.
Imperial March
In a recent Marginal Revolution post, Tyler Cowen posed an intriguing hypothetical: what if David Lynch had directed the film Return of the Jedi? Not a purely academic question: we learn that there was at least brief talk on the subject. Coincidentally enough, a few years before the second set of three films showed up, [...]
Nine exit musics (for films)
Click here (Myspace page for Clint Mansell). Listen to “Lux Aeterna.” Sound familiar? Listen to “Death Is The Road To Awe.” Ditto? Mansell, formerly of Pop Will Eat Itself, has since earned himself some pretty snappy composer credits. “Lux Aeterna” appeared in Requiem For a Dream. “Death Is The Road To Awe,” in The Fountain. [...]
South Africans watch District 9
It’s an incredible article. Our previous remarks on the film are here.
Revolution: district number nine
Peter Jackson — unstoppable, brilliant, visionary Peter Jackson — has struck again, this time with District 9, a science fiction picture for the rest of us. District 9 belongs in that rarest of hyperreal categories, combining an unknown cast (read: Kids and Apocalypto), and a straight-faced fictional documentary style (think Black and White, or anything [...]
Surely Star Trek had music in it, although it was such a remarkable film overall that I don’t remember any
As of last Tuesday at noon, there were exactly forty-four people left in the world who had not seen the new Star Trek film. (You in the back, I can hear you from all the way over there: “New? Tee hee!”) This post is written for the remaining forty-two. Yes, ye of That Number, the [...]
There Will B–
The wife and I are halfway through the film There Will Be Blood. It’s phenomenal. Never again will such an assortment of pond-scum be so engaging to watch. There is the hateful, murdering oil man. The greedy, religious nut job. The abusive father. The careless roughnecks. The condescending monopolists. The only character the audience comes [...]
Listen to music instead of watching Knowing
SPOILER ALERT: We’re about to give the whole thing away. That’s the most humane thing you can do for so miserable a motion picture: give it away free of charge. And here we go: Atheist Nicolas Cage, son of a preacher man, realizes that a 50-year-old document has predicted the dates, death tolls, longitudes and [...]
