Also I didn't realize it, but I guess Milva is famous -- http://www.youtube.com/artist/Milva
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 30 March 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
watching 'fata morgana' was the 1st time i ever really "got" the appeal of leonard cohen
― johnny crunch, Friday, 30 March 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
The Third Ear Band song was good, though.
... and Blind Faith too
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
my son, my son what have ye done isn't very good
I liked it a lot, more than Rescue Dawn or Bad Lt. The first half-hour had me discouraged but it built something powerful.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
was listening to the 'heart of glass' audio commentary, love this
under hypnosis imagination functions very well. i tested it by having people under hypnosis and i would ask them to write a poem because there is something like poetic language in all of us and of course it wouldn't function if i asked you 'you are shakespeare write me a sonnet' it wouldn't function, it depends on the quality of suggestion so i told the people under hypnosis this 'you are on a foreign island, the first one who sets his foot now on this island for centuries and it's overgrown with uh jungleous butterflies strange birds singing and you are walking through the jungle and you come across a gigantic cliff and upon closer inspection this entire cliff this entire escarpment is made of pure emerald and a holy monk hundreds of years ago spent his entire life with a chisel and a hammer to scratch a poem into the wall of that because it's like diamond and it took him all his life to engrave only three lines of a poem' and i said please open your eyes and you will see it you will be the first one to see it and you will read it to me
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
ha ha ha
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
a finer human could not have been produced by sciencei never listen to the commentary but i appreciate that someone does and then transcribes it for my enjoyment
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
how's the film, btw? i've never seen, & have that ass-backwards impulse to read this regardless: http://www.ipgbook.com/every-night-the-trees-disappear-products-9781569766071.php
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
amazing landscapes, popol vuh, entertaining, hyno-induced nonsequiturs, i couldnt ask for much more tbh
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
uh that should read *hypno*-induced
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
ha. thanks. i've seen herzog's films in a really skewed order, i still have a bunch of the big guns to see.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
the book looks good, fwiw
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not his best movie but sdtk is top 3 PV albums imo.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
later in the commentary he also said 'i like to use actors who know how to milk cows'
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
'into the abyss' is on netflix streaming now
― lebron traveled (am0n), Sunday, 15 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
into the abyss was some really sad stuff, great film. it made me think about having nightmares where you've committed a crime or something, just the root ugliness at the heart of the state and the serious criminal.
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
It was really sad. I don't know if I could watch that one again. I just watched Invincible for the first time last night, and it was pretty good but the Zimmer soundtrack was a bit syrupy for me.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Invincible was one of the first movies I watched with Je55e.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://futurestates.tv/episodes/plastic-bag
― am0n, Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Zimmer with Herzog is such a weird idea. And mini-Zimmer Klaus Badelt did most of the scoring on Rescue Dawn too.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
are u guys watching that? herzog is narrating from a plastic bag's pov
― am0n, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's pretty great
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
music score is sorta bad
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Into the Abyss completely ruined my night. just deeply depressing on multiple levels. don't think it's one i'll ever return to.
― circa1916, Thursday, 10 May 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yoo hooHas anyone read the book about Heart of Glass yet? Every Night the Trees Disappear by Alan Greenberg?
If so,(1) recommend?(2) is the music discussed at all, or just the movie/circumstances surrounding the making of the movie?
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/jack-reacher/trailers/jack-reacher-theatrical-trailer-30887645.html
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
I got the Heart of Glass book (Every Night the Trees Disappear) for Christmas and I'm already halfway done. It's got short chapters/vignettes about the production of the movie (which involved villagers and hypnotism, typically) intercut with excerpts of some kind of treatment of the movie itself. Enjoyable easy reading, nothing about the music yet but at least it's not stuffy/academic (yet).
― passion it person (La Lechera), Saturday, 29 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
added to wishlist
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 31 December 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
I just finished it -- it's enjoyable, and has lots of poignant/puzzling classic Herzog moments. Nothing about the soundtrack, but there's a small bit at the end about the Ancient Music Ensemble that plays on Skellig rock, but I don't even remember that part at all. Guess it's time to watch the movie again!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Oh and there's this hilarious part where Herzog is like (I'm paraphrasing here) "I'm the best person at handling music in movies, I am #1" and then some other guy comes along and says no, he is the worst.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
other guy is wrong
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 December 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Agree. I just checked and it was Thomas Binkley of the Ancient Music Ensemble, who only approved of the way Hollywood handles movie music. Apparently he spent a large portion of the evening talking about Mickey Mouse, so clearly he cannot be trusted.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
I wish more hollywood movies had used ppl like Binkley/Ancient Music Ensemble!
(wish someone would put out David Munrow's Zardoz score on CD)
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
The Devils too!! Have you ever heard A Walk with Love and Death by Georges Delerue? I trust Thomas Binkley with ancient music, but not so much with talking cartoon mice.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Walk w Love n Death is a nice example! Delerue did a couple others with that period flavor too... The Borgias (old miniseries) was one...
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cijkIXXiSW4
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 January 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
happy ppl is a weird title
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 12 January 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
agree, but it has to be a quote from someone in the movie...right?
i mean i'm gonna go see it regardless, don't really care what it's called
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 January 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
cobra verde is very underrated
― the late great, Saturday, 12 January 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
floor of skulls iirc
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 13 January 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
i watched the happy people, it was p great, touching seeing this trapper dude out there just being the most competent philosophical guy at one w nature, i guess herzog didnt film it just edited it down from a longer russian mini series and gave it the trademark narration, only complaint the russian translation seemed quite artless and flat
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Cobra Verde isn't perfect BUT it does have the ultimate Herzog ending (well, that one or Stroszek's)
― Simon H., Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Is Cobra Verde the one with the big dance number at the end? (never thought I'd say that, but there it is)
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
really want to see Happy People, although the Herzog narration in one of the clips I watched was surprisingly annoying and riddled with cliches -- "No rules, no bureaucracy, total self-reliance" blah blah
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 January 2013 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
taiga-related, v interesting story:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html#ixzz2JLsEc9A3
― am0n, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
awesome story
http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/karpagafia1.jpg
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
seriously, that article is amazing, must read
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Sent to myself for train reading on phone.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
piece is mindbending
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 February 2013 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
KK is actually *relatively* restrained as Aguirre. Love him matter-of-factly heaving the flaming gunpowder barrel off the raft.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link