You might also want to ponder the use of 'Ghosts' by Albert Ayler on the S/T.
― Andrew L, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
One of the greatest things I've seen in the past four years, actually: I was well beyond floored by this film. I took -- and I thought this was fairly explicit -- the brother's murders as an operation of violence spawning violence, essentially, or at least a sense of trauma as contagious, a sense that people who are damaged will damage in turn. The parallel struggle here came in the form of the detective's having precisely this expectation about the bus driver, which was a neat narrative trick: the audience fervently hopes this isn't true of the driver, and is both (vindicated)/(given hope) and (disappointed)/(given fear) by the discovery that it's the child. It's nothing if not a story about those two possibilities, and how they can be navigated.
― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― David, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
[ps: i always heard it as "even in the rainbow's breadth"... how twee of me]
― gygax!, Monday, 13 January 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
The DVD I got has a huge black border for housing the subtitles.
― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
Do you mean the Albert Ayler or the Jim O'Rourke music (the movie is named after O'Rourke's album)?
The best film/music synthesis I know is Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky, which I just rewatched last night.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 13 January 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Netherlands 27 January 2002 (International Film Festival Rotterdam) France 17 May 2002 (Cannes Film Festival) Russia 26 June 2002 (Moscow Film Festival) Belgium 4 July 2002 (Cinedecouvertes Age D'or Film Festival Brussels) Czech Republic 8 July 2002 (Karlovy Vary Film Festival) Canada 6 September 2002 (Toronto Film Festival) Belgium 2 October 2002 Ireland 12 October 2002 (Cork International Film Festival) Poland 10 January 2003 France 15 January 2003 UK 21 February 2003
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link
I am searching to source some incredible 2nd line footage featuring the Eureka Brass Band. None of the major libraries seem to recognize it...so I'm throwing it out to fans to help with the hunt...
― klthorson, Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't understand a gd minute of this. theresa russell was p hot tho
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Friday, 29 January 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
me neither but still, it's a fun ride.
― jed_, Friday, 29 January 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
you can look around kyushu on streetview. i wanted to go there after seeing this anyhow.
has anyone seen anything else of aoyama's?
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Monday, 24 May 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
some weeks i can't get this film out of my head. even its potential corniness/melodrama is transformed into something else. it speaks to me, maaaan.
― Sarushima baby jive (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was thinking about it the other day, it's a beautiful film
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? (2005) his film about some apocalyptically inclined noise dudes which i don't remember well but it was rather good without approaching eureka
the rest of his recent work seems quite mainstream going by the synopses, i am mindful of watching some of them eventually but i retain the hope he returns to the long take 4 hour sepiatone elegies
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i don't know why i haven't tracked down anything else he's done. i guess Eureka feels like a spectacular one-off in many ways, and as i say you can easily imagine it slipping into excess if it wasn't for the fantastic pacing and the spooked-out tone
― Sarushima baby jive (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
my favourite film of the 2000s probably
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link