Lumière and Company (a directorial omnibus) for the centenary of Train Arriving at a Station_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
'Premonition Following an Evil Deed' - DAVID LYNCH's segment is worth more than all the others put together. In my books, most of the rest of the film shorts = 2 stars, or less! Incredibly, nearly all the directors didn't illuminate on the film process, gave glib, clichéd answers and their efforts with the original Cinematographe…
From the insular yet well-appointed playpen of an over-privileged exceedingly ambitious maker of films comes a bumbling behemoth of capricious mnemonics, distorted and melodramatized historical events jumbled together in an overly loquacious briar patch of timelines slapping back and forth like an erratic tick-tock pendulum of mumbling disparities, endless histrionics with dubious "entertainment" tropes - all in the name of storytelling: The self-serving ethnocentrism of the US Industrial Military Complex blind to anything outside of Western "Culture".
Altogether not bad...…
Just another few words from me about the music of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Regarding what has been alleged as Kubrick's reaction to Alex North's score: He said it was DATED. And so it was rightfully rejected by the master.
I'm sure Kubrick meant that it was "dated" in that he was envisioning music that transcends the boundaries of what are the recognisable or emblematic stylistics of a certain period. Ligeti's music accomplishes this temporal transcendence brilliantly. Strauss (both), and…
Low-budget cyberpunk horror schlock tour-de-force. Hardware, a dystopian midnight movie, nods respectfully (and/or irreverently, as demands) to Blade Runner, The Terminator, Alien, Repo Man, Videodrome, Soylent Green, (etc.) - with deadpan humour reminiscent of Dark Star. Connoisseurs of Philip K. Dick will revel in this quasi-postmodernist collage/collision buffet that will leave you hungry for more (however satisfying).
It also boasts an original score from Simon Boswell, and music by Public Image Ltd, Ministry, Iggy Pop, Lemmy of Motörhead (the latter two both make cameo appearances). It may just reverberate in the walls of your cochlear with sheer delight.
