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edit: misread the previous post and thought it was talking about the Blackfly.
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That looks awesome, I need to try this myself soon.
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As an aside with The Irishman, something I'm curious about from a psychological perspective: How did DeNiro take to the CGI de-aging idea? He had to do something relatively similar for Raging Bull but it required a pretty extraordinary effort from DeNiro to pull it off. I would think it's likely a point of pride to him. I wonder how he felt being asked for his character to go through something similar, but without his personal intervention to make it happen. I'll reserve most of my other thoughts on the film. I did find the Paquin character (and her younger counterpart) to be massively underutilized (and for me, the most interesting aspect of the film is the dynamic between her and DeNiro). And strangely, there were certain elements of exposition (mainly around Pesci) that I felt were not fleshed out, and missing detail is usually not a weakness for Scorsese.
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Even though he was in Tarkovsky's greatest films, this film may have Anatoliy Solonitsyn's best performance. Edit: And Shepitko died during production of this film and Klimov had to finish the film on her behalf.
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I know the exact moment you're referring to. Yep, I would have been bent for life if exposed to that at age 10. Any opinions on Gillo Pontecorvo's "Kapo"? As well, I highly recommend Sergei Loznitsa's "In the Fog". Guessing you'd appreciate it.
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@Nebraska You saw Come and See at age 10? Very curious about background to that. My dad recommended A Clockwork Orange to me at age 11 and I remember thinking that was a bold recommendation after seeing it. Come and See at age 10 would have traumatized me for life! So much fascinating backstory to that film. For instance: As well, between this film and Throbbing Gristle, I've always found the sound of a phaser inherently macabre.
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Anything by Peter Watkins is worth a watch. His Edvard Munch biopic is one of the all-time greats. His documentary "The War Game" is the first time the BBC ever funded something and then refused to release it due to their fear it would cause a panic (this doc won several awards). And then there's "Culloden"...which a certain xenophobic nationalist shithead on this very board tried to take my head off for commenting on once. Culloden is great, that shithead is not.
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That track always reminded me of Throbbing Gristle's "Beachy Head", which I love. Faith in Strangers is great. Between "Science and Industry" and the title track, ton of great stuff there.
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Loving the living shit out of this. I always get reflexively giddy when a new Andy Stott album comes out. It's kinda embarrassing. edit: With that said, needs more Alison Skidmore
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Balderdash and Trivial Pursuit
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I saw the trailers and could only think that Linda Hamilton should have taken her own advice with the SPF 1 Million joke... *ducks tomatoes*
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A Page of Madness rules I went kinda nuts this weekend with the Criterion 50% off sale at Barnes and Noble. Upgraded a lot of my personal favorites. With that, gave a re-watch to Jeanne Dielman over the weekend. This may be the most technically perfect film I've ever seen. Between framing, pacing, brilliant use of ellipsis, Delphine Seyrig. I'll stop now but this is def. one of the greatest films I've ever seen, if not the greatest.
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Loved this movie. So awesome that there was an El Santo reference.
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So for all the great celebrated music out of Detroit, it appears some of the worst music has also originated there. Forgot this:
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So for all the great celebrated music out of Detroit, it appears some of the worst music has also originated there. And yeah totally missed the 2nd post.
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No Dilla postings at all? I smiled at the lack of Eminem and Kiss but no Dilla?! (the story behind that video is amazing, Jerry Stackhouse was extorted so they could use his house to films scenes) And close enough:
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One of the all-time great experimental short films was made entirely out of footage from The Entity I got incredibly lucky and saw this for the first time in a theater back in '01-'02 (it was part of a full Tscherkassky retrospective, no less). Was the major catalyst for my interest in film.
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Not much of a surprise, but most of the recent Frontline episodes have been great. The MBS episode, the Flint water crisis episode, and the Bork/Federalist Society episodes in particular. They recently licensed a doc made in the Philippines related to Duterte's drug war. As a massive Lav Diaz fan, the production style was kinda jarring but still an important subject and doc.
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Tried watching the first episode of the Ken Burns country music retrospective. Gave up after the overlong opening salvo of hagiography (while still making it clear that the hagiography is selective by era, classic Ken Burns). I agree with the earlier assertion about his Jazz equivalent being narrow minded (specifically with Fusion jazz). Sorry but the time that Louis Armstrong took a crap in 1931 does not hold as much importance as Bitches Brew. Basically every Ken Burns series always has this same habit of ranking eras of a particular subject and then essentially promoting generation gaps and supremacy. Nonsense.
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Good material posted on this forum in the last week. This mix kicks ass.
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If choosing the Manson clan murders is a vehicle for "entertainment", that's a shitty vehicle. Saying Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is solely (or even predominantly) entertainment is reductive. I also find Tarantino's insistence on an alternate narrative to this moment in history to be a weakness. To me, this film feels like conservative fantasy-fulfillment of what could have been in Hollywood, posing the Manson murders as a theft of Hollywood's collective innocence. It's a very narrow perspective and one I find no enjoyment or quarter.
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To Korg Volca Drum owners, Korg posted a fix today for the MIDI Channel issue. ?
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Had no idea they were so close in comparison. Thanks for sharing! I love Noir, and admittedly I hadn't heard any similarities in any DFAM videos I've seen (I haven't heard one in-person). The combo of modulation and the sequencer in Noir makes it really easy to get usable phrases quickly. A lot of the sounds I get out of Noir sound like Randomer to me.
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Sergei Loznitsa's "Maidan" about the Maiden square protests and subsequent squashing in Kiev. Loznitsa's documentaries typically consist of archival footage brilliantly arranged to give context ("The Event", "The Trial", "Blokade", "State Funeral", etc.). However some of his newer work, including "Maidan" (and "Victory Day") actually have Loznitsa behind the camera. And just like his fiction films, the work is all the better for it. Documentaries typically have an aim to bring the viewer closer to the experience, or even try to bring a "you are there" type perspective. However, most fail miserably in achieving these goals (including good documentaries, Lav Diaz's "Storm Children Book 1" immediately springs to mind). "Maidan" is a rare exception, imo. Between the lack of narration, very little spatial awareness amidst the chaos, and ominous fatalism that captures every moment of this conflict, even in its earnest and optimistic beginnings. Highly recommended, along with literally anything else Loznitsa's done.
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Going through Mindhunter. Very disappointing, imo. Interesting premise but way too stylized.
