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« on: December 27, 2013, 12:22:43 PM »
Happy new year to everyone!
I got the best gift from my family this Christmas that I'm still working on believing, so I figured writing about it here could help with that: I got a ticket for the February Ennio Morricone concert in Prague!
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« on: November 20, 2013, 03:22:57 PM »
Well, thanks for clearing that up; as I said, I don't really remember it all. Plus I suspect I've mostly encountered narrative theories in terms of literature anyway, where it's a bit different, and probably less clear-cut.
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« on: November 04, 2013, 04:06:10 PM »
It's Peter Riegert calling because he misses everybody in Scotland and wants to come back. There's no ambiguity whatsoever. Did you watch this when you were 8 years old or something?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbu662CF3HoI rest my case.
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« on: October 17, 2013, 11:39:11 PM »
Smoke Signals (1998)
It's everything this kind of film should be.
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« on: September 06, 2013, 12:50:47 AM »
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« on: August 30, 2013, 07:32:18 AM »
Latest news is the local cinema's going to be digitalised, like many others. The projectors went to a collector and a technical museum, allegedly in a very, very good state, still perfectly operational. I missed out on the last screening on them, because I wasn't at home. 
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« on: August 30, 2013, 05:55:09 AM »
Sometimes, silence can be as dramatic as music. I've seen Dreyer's wonderful Jeanne d'Arc without any music, so it was totally silent - and it was harrowing. 
Just think about how Ennio uses the silence. He's a master in that, too, not only in music.
Not enough silence is my biggest gripe with contemporary soundtracks. Nobody lets the tension speak for itself these days; the way Morricone's music speaks in Leone's films has much to do with the amount of silence that precedes it in those films. On a completely different note - I would not compare, it's incomparable, but Mark Knopfler's done some excellent soundtracks. It's rather a pity that he has not done more...
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« on: July 01, 2013, 07:12:54 AM »
Well, using a countertenor in "Vale Decem" alone would put him there for me. Countertenors really have a renaissance lately.
Well, that one comes very close, countertenor or not. But the whole thing is otherwise the modern school of soundtracks that play all the time, which is not my favourite style.
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« on: May 08, 2013, 02:50:55 AM »
Mark Knopfler & Band yesterday in Prague. Absolutely fantastic. They got a standing ovation. 
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« on: May 04, 2013, 01:12:18 PM »
My top 3 for film/tv music is Ennio, Nino Rota and Murray Gold.
Um. It was actually some Murray Gold I was listening to. Apparently, not the same class for my father... (and not quite for me, either, although I enjoy it.)
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« on: April 22, 2013, 11:09:43 AM »
Great job, CJ - I feel terribly undereducated, but in a good way: there's room for more. 
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« on: April 22, 2013, 01:01:39 AM »
what you mean to say is y'all are anti-America however possible 
No, what I mean to say is that European works, as far as I know, usually chose the "Noble Savage" stream of non-authentic portrayal. Unless they were colonial works with an interest.
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« on: April 21, 2013, 11:34:44 PM »
Well, as I said, I'm no expert. Thanks for clarifying that.
And I'm European on top of that. We've long had a soft spot for the Indian side of things over here. And European portrayals of them are usually also very wrong, as we tend to project our own troubles into them. So, whatever.
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« on: April 21, 2013, 11:20:49 AM »
What I didn't like is how the movie clearly shows how a treaty is broken with the Indians, and how part of the "winning" of the west was a very brutal business. Yet ultimately it celebrates it. Like, let's show how this and that and the other was done unethically and murderously, but hey, wtf, we won the west! You can't try to be honest and show the brutality toward Indians that was part of winning the West, and then say, hey, let's celebrate it all.
That's pretty much what I meant. Ironic. I think (though I'm no expert) this must have been one of the first American Westerns to acknowledge that historical fact; it undermines its own message.
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