The director-turned-musician turns editor for this week's Film & Music
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Sometimes a fish will tell you how it wants to be cooked
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Duran Duran ought to have scored a Hitchcock film
Precisely what will four 21-year-old men from the Ozarks make of Lynch's new album?
Or, for that matter, a blond high-school girl from Columbus, Ohio?
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Owlyross:
Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which is so stupidly overblown and "epic" that it goes through ridiculous and right back through to awesome.
Five things we learnt from David Lynch's stint as editor
Sometimes a fish will tell you how it wants to be cooked
The block-and-tackle is a mysterious and powerful device
Duran Duran ought to have scored a Hitchcock film
Precisely what will four 21-year-old men from the Ozarks make of Lynch's new album?
Or, for that matter, a blond high-school girl from Columbus, Ohio?
In the news this week
Justin Bieber turns to Twitter to deny paternity claims
What are Juggalos and should we be scared of them?
The Cure to release Bestival live album
Flaming Lips announce collaboration with Nick Cave
MoMA commissions multimedia work by Antony and the Johnsons
Our readers recommend
Owlyross:
Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which is so stupidly overblown and "epic" that it goes through ridiculous and right back through to awesome.
- 11/4/2011
- by Adam Boult
- The Guardian - Film News
The starburst filter, exploding reality into glistening flares and halations...the clink of brandy glasses before an open fire, or the shimmer of a Los Angeles swimming pool...the device has an aura of dated cliche haunting the lovely tackiness of its images. How strange to see it used in black-and-white in Jean-Gabriel Albicocco's The Girl With Golden Eyes (1961), where it becomes outstandingly beautiful with no hint of kitsch.
Frustratingly, the subtitles (produced by a besotted fan) on my copy of this film are too literal or elliptical or something: at any rate, I can't understand anything that's going on, despite a helpful title crawl at the start setting up the plot, and the knowledge that it's based on one of Balzac's stories of the Thirteen, a group of friends who form a secret society to protect each other's interests (Rivette used Balzac's idea obliquely in Out...
Frustratingly, the subtitles (produced by a besotted fan) on my copy of this film are too literal or elliptical or something: at any rate, I can't understand anything that's going on, despite a helpful title crawl at the start setting up the plot, and the knowledge that it's based on one of Balzac's stories of the Thirteen, a group of friends who form a secret society to protect each other's interests (Rivette used Balzac's idea obliquely in Out...
- 4/7/2011
- MUBI
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