watched Sep 01, 2017,
spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd:
6.6
[DVD]
Harry Baur, as Beethoven, communicates emotional torment so well, whether it be the pain of his yearning, broken heart, or the disoriented confusion of a man losing the hearing that is required to pursue his livelihood. Abel Gance made this “talkie” a solid decade after his silent masterpiece NAPOLEON, and it relies heavily on the montage methods he had perfected by then. This Image Entertainment DVD has a running time of just under two hours, but the choppy storytelling in the film leads me to think that the original film may have had a longer running time (this is unknown to me*). The scene in which Beethoven discovers his deafness contains some wonderful sound editing: when he realizes his world has gone silent, his memory produces several familiar sounds – birdsong, thunder, a blacksmith’s hammer strike – that create a cacophony of comfort in his head.
*IMDb lists the film’s running time at 2’15, so approximately one-eighth of the film is missing from the print I viewed.
https://boxd.it/jLmTH
Tags: film · Screenings
rewatched Sep 01, 2017,
spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd:
8.6
[blu-ray, Netflix]
Wonderful use of Brooklyn as a main character, and mad hot dog-eating skills by Charles Durning as the well-intentioned but ultimately foiled police captain.
https://boxd.it/jKs1f
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watched Aug 30, 2017,
spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd:
5.4
[DVD, library]
An early silent featuring Ollie in a supporting role and without Stan. The story is slight, but the sawmill setting provides the opportunity for a half-dozen WOW stunts – some of which must have really hurt! Funniest bit was not a gag, but was a three-minute stretch on the DVD when the pianist providing the score started stomping his foot to keep time.
https://boxd.it/jHeQn
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watched Aug 15, 2017,
spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd:
7.7
[DVD, library]
Fascinating to observe that practically every cultural shift detailed in this documentary of the year 1964 is mirrored in some meaningful way by a milestone in pop music history. I doubt we could see the same in our current tumult.
https://boxd.it/jm1AT
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watched Aug 15, 2017,
spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd:
1.6
[blu-ray, Netflix]
As religious pontificating goes, it’s serviceable, I guess. But as an involving and admirable work of film art, it is truly execrable.
https://boxd.it/jm19X
Tags: film · Screenings
- Graham Nash “Simple Man”
- Joni Mitchell “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
- Seal “Daylight Saving”
- Canned Heat “Going Up the Country”
- Macy Gray “You’ve Got It Bad Girl”
- The Meters “Trick Bag”
- The Western States Motel “California Highway Patrol”
- Aretha Franklin “I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)”
- Rufus Wainwright “Welcome to the Ball”
- Peter Gabriel “Don’t Give Up”
- Jack Johnson “Good People”
- The Who “Cousin Kevin”
- The Moody Blues “So Deep Within You”
- The Who “It’s a Boy (demo)”
- Sufjan Stevens “One Last ‘Whoo-hoo!’ for the Pullman”
- The Decemberists “Riverswim”
- John Lennon “Tight A$”
- Sharon van Etten “Every Time the Sun Comes Up”
- Dave Matthews “Take Me to Tomorrow”
- The La’s “Doledrum”
- Cat Stevens “Longer Boats”
- Beck “Soul of a Man”
- Patty Griffin “Fragile”
- David Crosby “Kids and Dogs”
- Wings “Helen Wheels”
- Laurie Anderson “Let X = X / It Tango”
- The Beatles “I’ll Follow the Sun”
- Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield “Baby Britain”
- The Police “Bring on the Night”
- Natalie Merchant “Saint Judas”
- The Mamas & the Papas “Creeque Alley”
#randomsongmachine
#musictrumpshate
Tags: Fred FM · music · Random Song Machine · Uncategorized
- Elvis Costello “It Started to Come to Me (home demo)”
- Bob Dylan “On a Night Like This”
- Randy Newman “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country”
- Van Halen “Feel Your Love Tonight”
- Elvis Costello “Talking in the Dark”
- The Beatles “A Taste of Honey”
- The Beatles “The Night Before”
- Sam Phillips “Same Changes”
- Bruce Springsteen “Lift Me Up”
- Chris Isaak “I Want Your Love”
- The Smiths “Never Had No One Ever”
- Marc Broussard “Going Home”
- Jackson Browne “Jamaica Say You Will”
- Peter Frampton “Do You Feel Like We Do”
- Ben E. King “Supernatural Thing – Part 1”
- Neko Case “Fever”
- Peter Gabriel “The Rhythm of the Heat”
- The Beatles “Penny Lane”
- Paul Simon “You Can Call Me Al”
- Peter Gabriel “Signal to Noise”
- Hall & Oates “Tell Me What You Want”
- Wilco “The Late Greats”
#happylisteningday
#randomsongmachine
#musictrumpshate
Tags: Fred FM · music · Random Song Machine
- The Five Stairsteps “O-o-h Child”
- Elton John “All Across the Havens”
- David Bowie “Criminal World”
- Cat Stevens “Kypros”
- Sixto Rodriguez “Sugar Man”
- Karla Bonoff “Faces in the Wind”
- The Church “Under the Milky Way”
- The Kinks “On the Outside”
- Talking Heads “Electricity (Drugs) (live”
- R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts”
- XTC “Grass”
- Bruce Hornsby “King of the Hill”
#randomsongmachine
#musictrumpshate
Tags: Fred FM · music · Random Song Machine
watched Aug 05, 2017,
spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd:
5.6
[DVD, library]
Required a longer running time – the demise of the Station and its architectural detail were given short shrift relative to the planning and business dealings involved in building the Station.
https://boxd.it/j6htx
Tags: film · Screenings
watched Aug 04, 2017,
spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd:
Tags: film · Screenings
