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Re: Don’t Care About The Book

Rory Mach — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:46:50 -0000

Which, neatly enough, is one of the themes of Old Joy, as well. How we all end up "departing from the original" over time -- with or without admitting it.

It's been done in writing often enough - first and maybe still best in Wordsworth -- but it's interesting to see it done well in the time and space of a movie.

Re: Don’t Care About The Book

Rory Mach — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:11:17 -0000

Mea Maxima Culpa. Sort of a Jungian slip! Thanks for the correction...

Re: Shooting A Blank: Army of Shadows and Letters from Iwo Jima

Rory Mach — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:52:53 -0000

On the other hand, Melville himself survived his time in the Resistance. Maybe that felt just as miraculous and unlikely as Gerbier's deus ex machina?

Re: The Panic in Needle Park: No Music

Rory Mach — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:16:16 -0000

I remember watching Panic on TV a couple of years ago, and it was hard to get past the eccentricity -- shared by a lot of '70s films -- of presenting an impenetrable wall of unmixed audio. I guess the idea was to make the sound feel real (hence, no music), but normal TV speakers just turned it to mud. With nothing mixed down... everything sounded mixed up. Is it any better on the DVD?

Re: It’s Just This Little Chromium Switch Here: Channelling The Firesign Theatre

Rory Mach — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:42:17 -0000

Exactly right, Dan. I've been listening to it for better than 30 years, and I'm still hearing new weirdness.

By the way, vinyl is still the best way to listen to this album. The interval created by needing to "turn the record over" was actually an important part of the timing. I lost my LP years ago, so I downloaded it from iTunes. Not quite the same thing...