Recent Viewing Part IV

Will the sky be clear tonight???

Meteors an shit...

for now, saw the first 3

Excellent choice, Tom!
For me it's a toss-up between this one and To Have And Have Not for their best collaboration.

Agnes Moorhead played the nasty in Dark Passage which featured a Waxman score with a little assistance from Steiner.
Tom

Fantastic movie called Blue Dahila, written by Raymond Chandler. No shamus involved in this one.
Tom

Not only do I believe you but I've seen it!

I was in the right mood for this pile of tosh when I saw it and I utterly enjoyed it, I wouldn't watch it a second time though.

How I watched it - =

Thought the first one was crap. Wouldn't go near the others if you paid me. (Well, actually I probably would do if you paid me.)

I think I'll buy flowers for Don Davis and de-icer for the wife.

I haven't seen the first one.

I've just returned from the Norwegian International Film Festival, but because we produced the festival paper, there wasn't time for that much film viewing.

One of the few I did see, however, was Luc Besson's LUCY.

Man, what a fantastic film! I was actually moved by it -- not so much the story per se, but to see one of my old director favourites return to form so magnificently. In my opinon, this is on the same level as his 80's and 90's highlights (SUBWAY, ATLANTIS, BIG BLUE, LEON, NIKITA and THE FIFTH ELEMENT). All the things that I love about him, and that put him in the socalled 'cinema du look' movement is here -- pulsating audiovisual ideas in blue and red, tight editing, brilliant action, and some interesting crosscuts. And Scarlet Johansson in the middle.

I was so engrossed by the experience that I failed to pay that much attention to Serra's score, but the little I did hear was wonderful. Some modern rhytmical figures, nice melodies and beautiful textures. I can't wait to hear it on album.

I heard a snippet of an interview with Besson where Damon Albarn was said to be "providing the music" and I was confused since Serra wasn't even mentioned. Seems that the Blur frontman penned a new song for the film.

I am not sure if the bit of the interview I heard was a bit misleading - it was heard on the Steve Wright show, a show not known for rigour - but Serra's contribution was completely ignored.

Well, you sort of missed my point there. I said regardless of how well it's used as a story device. I'm still mildly interested in seeing this film!

I wouldn't criticise Star Wars for having sound in space, because most people already know this isn't the case, and it's a perfectly acceptable (and enjoyable) artistic license. But this is a case of explicitly promoting a common myth about the brain, which is misinformation.

So yes, it's not a particularly harmful myth - but it's still false. And it's irritating when people come away from watching this as though they've just learnt something about neurology.

Renegade Girl (1945) with Ann Savage. Savage was a hard looking blonde who had a short but incredible run with the 'B' movies in the 40's. This was a western with the typical plot of the Jayhawkers in Missouri.
Tom