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without the explanatory notes, citations, and general and cited sources one would normally find at the bottom of the Wikipedia entry.
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Various Artists - Herzliebster Jesu · Choral Klassiker (2013)
Review by Gill Sans SUBS
Various Artists - Herzliebster Jesu · Choral Klassiker (2013)
Review by Gill Sans SUBS
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The same recording, in moderately good quality, from Deutsche Grammophon:
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If you want to hear this in truly good quality you will have to look out for a vinyl copy on DG.
From the B_minor mass on, all tracks are in irreproachable quality. For example the short Choral "O Hilfe, Christe, Gottes Sohn", which YT tells us is conducted by Georg Christoph Biller:
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It is amusing to hear Kenneth Spencer sing Lowell Mason's famous hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" in impeccable German. Spencer moved to Germany in 1950 and made a number of recordings for Columbia Masterworks:
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(To say the least!!!)
Basically, it's the story of a young guy on the threshold of adult life, with lots of pressures bearing on him, and in his attempts to find a moment or two to himself... for... er... a little relief (ahem) discovers that that inner tension builds to an unbearable degree.
Something has to give.
...And does, in a way, that... er ... is.... um... yikes!
(far be it for me to offer spoilers, but I think it advisable to let you know what you're getting into in this case, as Oedipal incest ensues. Crumbs!)
When a movie has such a big talking point, especially one of such a controversial magnitude around a very particular taboo, it tends to push all other considerations aside, and how good the movie is, the performances, and indeed the story being told, and how well it is told tend to get lost in the mix, overwhelmed by the degree to which the one nugget of outrage that public discourse latches onto becomes.
For on all other of these counts, this is brilliant... a lightly, wryly handled comic / tragic portrait of a very confused young man's struggle to realize himself in the approaching adult world.
This has become a bit of a back-burner, low key cult classic indie movie, which, even the most broad minded tend to not mention in polite society.
It likely won't appear any time soon in your TV for these reasons, and it might be difficult to find on any media too... but stands as a good example of how to go about tackling the toughest of subjects.
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it is set in 2002 in the dan dare future, after ''operation saturn'', which basil dawson wrote some of, under the pen-name of don riley, when frank hampson collapsed through overwork, and before ''prisoners of space'', but the novel wasn't published until dan & co. were on cryptos, towards halfway through the longest and greatest of the comic's stories, ''the man from nowhere'' and ''rogue planet'', by which time i suspect the readership had grown up with dan dare and his colleagues, and the well-developed vision of this future, sufficiently to expect a novel presenting altogether more substantial a story, with significantly greater depth of thought than this ''fair, but unambitious'' mystery adventure.
(tbc: plot hook / set-up to be composed and added; but there's a bus or two to be caught soon, and some shopping to be done...)
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Another noisy neighbour!
...As I've come to think of those movies that seem to hum away in the background of your consciousness, occasionally bubbling up to the surface of conversation as some kind of cult classic contender, or unappreciated prospective masterpiece, to quote Peter Griffin: "It insists upon itself", until you finally relent, and watch the thing.
And for the most part such movies have not yet disappointed: Crazy Stupid Love, The Before Trilogy (such as I have seen so far!), have knocked it out of the park, and proven themselves worthy of more general appreciation, even, to a degree: Punch Drunk Love was in this zone...
...But this has proven itself not to be such a film - a lot of talk about it's quirky strangeness worthy of being mentioned alongside the works of Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Charlie Kauffman, Gondry, Jonze and the rest, is flattery beyond what is reasonable, because basically, this feels like an attempt to bottle and commercialise, or otherwise cash in on the vibes and themes that those other master film-makers do - to tap into their wild, surreal, yet insightful genius, and claim it for their own.
This wants to be a Wes Anderson movie, or a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, better yet. Wes Anderson directing a Paul Thomas Anderson Kauffman story, and reeks of pretentions to this... indeed it is, therefore:
Pretentious.
And while, on the surface of things, it should be an interesting confounding story of a man who feels nudged out of an enterprise by usurping, shallow former friend hiring a couple of, um, existential investigators to follow himself around, and get the bottom of his existence, and discover if life rests upon the intricate relationship of a causal interconnectedness of things, with meaning or purpose in it's design, or if it's all just one great coincidental mess, with no point or purpose to the circumstances of life...
(Phew! - I told you it was pretentious!!!)
...It actually dissolves into an uninteresting, incomprehensible mess of parts.
.......And you become increasingly aware as the movie goes on, that it was only a half baked idea to begin with, that on paper, may have made the actors involved look with relish at such an interesting concept, and script, probably with those other movie makers works in mind, like they would get the chance to be involve in something like that, with the same results. But sadly, no.
This feels very much like nobody involved even understood what it is those other guys actually do, but thought, let's just be strange, wordy, and make it look and feel like one of those we've achieved it... if it's purposely obscure, it must mean something, and people will be believe it too, and nod reverently at us for having made something so profound, and brilliant.
(For some reason, that Turner prize winner of the painting made with poo springs to mind, that everyone got very frowny, obsequious, and celebratory about :)
For this is a piece of shit.
First, look at the cast: Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, ad Jude Law... yeah, enough said.
And then, I think the cardinal sin, is trying to all of those other film makers at once, and therefore loses the definition, and distinctiveness, both in substance and style which is each their own, and makes their movies work. It therefore feels messy, flat, bland, and uncompelling.
Granted, there are one or two moments of inspiration, such as the blanket analogy of reality, which I enjoyed, but then went beyond ridiculous to plain embarrassing in the "surreal" moments of seeing Schwartzman as a baby being breast fed by a grown man with hairy tits - an image I never want in my head again! - or the slow motion "passionate sexual abandon" in the woodland, covering each other with mud, and being really depressingly sad to look at.
Many other things just feel like amateur theatre ideas and playground gimmicks dressed up as something important, but it just made me wince.
And, although promising to begin with, the telling line: "That September thing" seeming to allude to what this was all about really, given it's historical proximity to 911: A shattered faith, and psychology of a people after that catastrophic event, seeking to make sense of an equally shattered reality trying to find meaning, and purpose in life where everything is apparently called into question...
...But this never lives up to it, and just meanders along until the end, and doesn't get good at any point.
So, I can now file this in my brain as watched, and can advise anyone else curious about it because of what they may have heard about it, that on this occasion, you can give this a miss, it won't ever (I hope) become regarded as a beloved classic, or culturally important in any way.
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It seems to capture the best of both Genesis worlds, of the more extensive proggy workouts of early years, but imbued with the more popular, melodic sounds of what was yet to come.
...And like Trick Of The Tail, it has an atmosphere all it's own, that marks it out separately from the body of their work... but these two albums themselves, being poles apart in this respect.
The the tone is set, firstly with the almost prelude of Behind The Lines, and then the album really gets going, for me, when the singular, and haunting track Duchess weaves it's spell. A brief reprise in Guide Vocal follows as an in breath, before the body of the album is presented in a collection tracks that are perhaps the strongest melodically, and in terms of pure song writing that Genesis have ever done, mostly more personal and considered, as well as emotional than usual, briefly interrupted with the uplift of Turn It On Again, which acts like a reset for side two, before ending with the epic two parter of Duke's Travel's, and Duke's End.
The songs, however independently considered, hang together to form a narrative of sorts, and tell a story across the album, in the manner of an Odyssey.
I finally dug my copy of this orignal vinyl out and gave it a spin again, after decades of having listened to my 94 remastered CD, and sadly find this quite lacking now, in comparison...
...It's not a bad pressing, or doesn't sound awful or anything, it's just a bit flat, and lifeless in comparison to that CD... doesn't pop, which feels at odds with the sonic drama on the album, the grandeur and epic melodic brilliance of the tunes doesn't come across that well, as well as sounding a little on the quiet side on the disc here.
So I still favour the 94 CD by some distance, but if I can get a vinyl reissue that sounds at least as good as that CD, I certainly would opt for that, as this is not only my favourite Genesis album, it's also somewhere in my top five favourite albums ever in general.
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Even through the mists of time, I still believe that that hot September night in a memorable summer still ranks as probably the finest gig that I've ever attended in my now-64 years on the planet! Heatwave's Johnnie Wilder Junior was absolutely electric with his superb voice and gymnastic performance, treating the audience to an incredible show of summersaults whilst beating out the vocals......it really was an amazing treat of a gig. Added to that there was also Johnnie's brother Keith Wilder on vocals, a truly international spread of international musicians on their instruments, plus the INCREDIBLE Mr Rod Temperton on keyboards. He would come to the very heights of fame in the years to come, being responsible for not only penning a host of Heatwave tracks but also songs for Michael Jackson and George Benson amongst others.
As you can probably tell, my main reason for being at the gig that night was because Heatwave were performing, however, I should also add that superband The Fatback Band were truly in their element too, running through a super-fast catalogue of their tracks, many of which we can still hear - 'Do The Bus Stop' for instance - turning up in the backing of some adverts currently on British TV!
In size, the now-defunct Californian Ballroom in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK, was really quite small, but boy did they have some of the very BIGGEST bands in the world perform there back in the day! To quote The Four Seasons; OH, WHAT A NIGHT!!
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...I am somewhat sketchy about it now, but the lasting impression of it being a very haunting, sad feeling tale of the giant robot from outer space arriving on earth to be befriended by a boy, with the same depth of warmth and feeling as one of those early Oscar Wilde short stories...
(Better than the plays and witticisms he is generally known for! - saw an animated version of The Happy Prince at school, which has scarred me for life, and lodged it firmly in my soul ever since! - devastated!!!)
..And it has always jarred with me... seemed odd to me, that Mister Serious McFrowny pants intellectual poet Ted Hughes could be responsible for this, but Brad Bird does a bang up job of capturing the feeling of the book that stayed with me all this time.
Due to the setting of 1950s America, against a backdrop of Sputnik, the Cold War, and imminent Nuclear destruction, the general underlying themes of advancing and advanced technology posing a threat to humanity, and the boy who sees otherwise in this robot visitor (And all that this implies :) probably makes this a bit too much for very small children, but maybe early teens and up would be a better audience - so if on TV, more early evening than morning.
And there's lots for older (ahem) viewers to like, in the subtle light wit, and humour that's here throughout.
A wonderful animated movie!
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Another one of those I'd sought to cross off my list, that comes with a huge, and legendary reputation...
...And while of course, it essentially patents the formula for the twisty turny private investigator noir movie, I found it unnecessarily convoluted, and the plot complicated, and a little difficult to follow.
What was amusing was the old stereotype of the characters talking in very quick, clipped sentences of this era: "You know what I mean see...?", "I do, see...?", "Oh you do see..?", "Oh yes I do, see...see...!".... "I see!" etc.
But that was mostly I think, because it felt they trying to cram too much dialogue and plot into too short a runtime, so it feels hurried.
It did gradually, mildly engross me towards the end, but I was getting quite non-plussed and even slightly bored with it until then.
(Oh, and while I Appreciate Humphrey Bogart is, of course, Humphrey Bogart, swimming in his Bogart-ness, I can't fathom why every single girl and woman in this thinks he's "Cute" and can barely keep themselves from falling over in swoons every time they encounter him... what the hell is that about?)
Overall... meh.
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The author looks back to the 1960s and attempts to analyse the global phenomenon surrounding the success of the Beatles and popular culture. Astley's text is interesting in its own right, actually stemming from the late-1970s and an early example of neo-Marxist academic thought concerning, not only the Beatles, but also popular music in general. John Astley is therefore deploying his skills as a 1970s Marxist sociologist of culture to develop a very specific ideological 'take' on the kaleidoscopic landscape that gave birth to the Beatles phenomenon. If the text is appreciated as such, a rewarding read is in store.
On the one hand, all popular music was questioned by Marxists, such as Astley, as an unrewarding facet of mass production that created a state of false consciousness in its listeners; on the other, many such British Marxist sociologists such as Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel, Dick Hebdige, et al were also coming to appreciate that popular music was an authentic representation of working class discourse and that reception was relatively autonomous. Such struggles with ideology kept many such British popular music critics and scholars such as Simon Frith up at night in the 1970s, as they sought to legitimise popular music as an authentic dialogue, while also acknowledging that the Marxist premise of historical materialism regarding the music industry still encapsulated rhetoric power. This work therefore pursues such struggles with ideology.
So, this is well-written text, and valid, but appears these days circular and unreconstructed. It is plausible to state that although history is forged in conflict (as Marx alludes), clearly such conflicts require history to represent the debates concerning such struggles for ownership, rather than simply reflect historical materialism (and indeed the realities of the masses), as a given. Perhaps, it is of appeal only to hardcore Marxist-Leninist Beatles fans (should there be any these days, of course).
Michael Brocken
Source: The Beatles Bibliography: A New Guide To The Literature - Michael Brocken and Melissa Davis (The Beatle Works Ltd., 2012), with acknowledgement, and used here with permission from the authors for educational and historical purposes only.
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Astor Piazzolla Y Su Quinteto Tango Nuevo - Tango: Zero Hour (1988)
Review by Gill Sans SUBS
Astor Piazzolla Y Su Quinteto Tango Nuevo - Tango: Zero Hour (1988)
Review by Gill Sans SUBS
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Though not mentioned anywhere in the package, the CD player shows "Remastered" after every track. There must have been an earlier version produced. I assume that this was available only at the monastery for visitors.
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- which it is -
- but it also turned slowly in her hands as she wrote it into a scream of frustration and even rage at the inability of merkin science fiction fans - allegedly and even actually intelligent men (- still, then, mostly men -) - to even consider that these things might be different; in effect, that they, themselves might be even a bit sexist -
- and frederik pohl, who was the bantam books sf editor at the time, bought and bantam published it.
- screams of outrage from much - most? - of merkin fandom could be heard the other side of the atlantic, even in ''little ol' lancaster''. . .°
° - and prob'ly reached the auntie podes, too (- no?)
- yes, technically, this novel is a failure: as the author of the intended sf adventure novel, joanna russ lost her focus and it turns by its end into a personal criticism of the overwhelmingly sexist nature of the (merkin) world of written sf, of sf fandom, and of publishing - and, ultimately, of merkin society as a whole then, now - and in the sciencefictional futures thus far imagined in the works of most of the then almost entirely male, overwhelmingly mostly white writers of sf.
- it is also a classic.
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Possibly the best part of story.
We then are introduced with a black n white film before another feature film, now and then we go back to the spaceship while the main feature is on.
The main feature is about two couples one about a african american and american both going through tough times the women in the african american relationship is firbidden by father while the other relationship the man just abbandons the female.
The women then meet and engage in a relationship.
Majority of the spaceship peoplle look bored the acting was bad from them and other cast was suppose be sexploit but felt like a parody scifi.
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Along with the nineties': Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt) a movie from a non-English speaking country which transcended national boundaries, and punched through into a broader International consciousness... And like Lola, the poster alone became an iconic emblem of the time every bit as much as the movie itself.
And while in this case, it's prime selling point that brought it to the wider audience was the rather, um... - if perhaps graphic would be the wrong word to use on it's own, then maybe illustrative -matter of fact sex scenes right from the first shot, which reputationally, have rather overshadowed the substance of a great, and haunting movie with a tragic, brilliant story.
Jean-Hughes Anglade's Zorg, is a bit of a drifting, easy going wannbe writer, bumming along from menial job to menial job with all his dreams always in the never never land of tomorow, or some way down the road. He happens to have scored (to use the common vernacular) big time, in hooking up with the feisty, intense Betty, played by Béatrice Dalle, who seems to complete his vision of a free and easy life of sun, sand, sex and fun.
So far, so good.
...Except, Betty's zest and intensity reveal themselves to be more than just a lust for life, and a reasonable passion for Zorg, for as their relationship develops, and Zorg begins to unconsciously fall for and accept Betty as a more permanent fixture in his life, she becomes more obsessive about him, and cajoling in trying to make him more of a doer than a dreamer, pushing him to get his work published, and abandon his more itinerant lifestyle... and her methods become gradually more extreme and eye-brow raising.
Fr what transpires is that she is labouring under the heavy dark could of a growing storm of profound mental illness, which Zorg, is now emotionally obliged to try to assuage, and try to save Betty, or at least manage her, because now he loves her.
It becomes a tough, but hauntingly beautiful watch the further in you get, as what began as fun, and joyous in seeing a burgeoning youthful love affair becomes a dark, and tragic relationship.
So, if you can get past the opening sex-bout, and concentrate on the story therafter, you have an all-time classic tragedy, as well as a quite important movie from the late eighties, and as well as the movie itself, the simple, devastating piano theme will stay lodged in your head and haunt you long after the film is over.
Simply brilliant.
(Great poster too! :)
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Fascinating Stuff.
Show 1 had:- Dusty Springfield - The Rolling Stones - Gene Pitney - The Dave Clark Five - Cliff Richard & the Shadows - The Hollies - The Beatles (2 songs) - The Swinging Blue Jeans - Freddie & the Dreamers.
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This is what I'm after when I go out on the dig for records in charity shops and the like...
...An inscrutable plain white sleeve, with only: "Telex" and "Test", concealing, as hoped for, and expected, a white label test pressing with the same on label, but also: SRK 6062, in biro.
(Actually gives that wrong cat number with a 6 instead of the 7, which made for a temporary problem in trying to search online to find out what it was.)
While the name is of course a familiar one, and it certainly alludes to what may be inside, and on the disc, I didn't know this group, or what the were about when I found it, so only thing left to do was play it! :)
Delightfully surprised, for although the opening track is a bit so-so, fairly bland typical eighties electronica, it did have a vague scent of Kratwerk style about it, a good indicator, of what was to come, I thought...
...But it even exceeded these expectations, as although this very much comes from the same place as Kraftwerk, with a very strong whiff of them, it has much more besides!
For the next track: Pakmovast, is a stonker!
...Right from the get go, it's heavy, pronounced beat which continues at a fair nodding pace, conjured heavy aromas of later electro-dance demi-gods Daft Punk, and I also detected a powerful sense of Jean Michel Jarre throughout the album too.
But there's another note I caught in my audio nostrils too, that of certain instruments, and melodic phrases and motifs of the kind that Boards Of Canada would later allude to in their work, of a kind of undefined nostalgia for a fuzzy, out there, seventies electronic wildlife documentary vibe.
If I had to guess, I I could easily say this may be one the albums that inspired them!
(Especially, in the brief outro track to Side 2: Ca Plane Pour Moi)
The Opening to Side 2 ise very strong, and sung in English: Something to Say, and the final track: Twist A Saint Tropez is a very jaunty upbeat piece of electronica (research show this to have been a single, and quite a well known one too!)...
...These two, bookending the other two tracks on Side 2; The... um... er... interesting take on Rock Around The Clock, which a slower, meditative, almost mesmeric version of the Rock and Roll classic (barely recognisable to begin with), and also another corker of a track: Victime De La Societe, which sounds like a low, evocative, work which might be suited to the opening or closing credits of a movie like the Ryan Gosling mood piece: Drive, or some other nightscape and neon based, city noir thriller soundtrack.
Taking my tp as representative of the retail issue of this, I can report that unlike those aforementioned artists, this has a comparatively stripped down, minimalist approach to the same kind of music, which comes through excellently on this pressing, very solid, definite, fat bass, and broad sounding synths across the audio horizon and all on fairly standard 125g-ish vinyl. but lovely a press.
In all, an absolute nugget of a find for me, and what I live to find among the neglected crates of dingy nooks in charity shops. :)
(Should those RSD peeple happen upon this review perchance, I'd suggest this is a good pick for a new issue - certainly, I'd like a swanky new issue of it with the artwork, and maybe some guff about the band / group etc. - white labels are nice, but don't really tell a lot!)
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An ageing actress goes to a remote highland retreat after a double mastectomy with her assistant played by Kota Eberhardt. Weird stuff keeps happening. There's some stuff with crystals which is never explained, sludgy liquid coming out of the earth and Alice Krige has flashbacks.
The film was billed as a feminist witchcraft film. We learn Veronica (Krige) was the victim of sexual abuse as a 13 year old in her early film Navajo Frontier, it's never explained if she did a film since or was simply a childhood actress. Which begs the question why is she still front page news in her golden years. We also see Desi (Kota Eberhardt) have suffer some sexual abuse by a man in a pub. In this scene we learn Veronica is protecting Desi with witchcraft and the man gets drowned in the muddy ground. Veronica sexually abusive director also dies by falling off a set of stairs which is called suicide. The director played by Malcolm McDowell is obviously based on Roman Polanski and possibly Harvey Weinstein. The message could be rapists must die. It's clumsily handled and very unsubtle compared to a film like Darling which has a similar message or even more unsubtle films like Dirty Weekend or A Gun For Jennifer which are more rape and revenge films it seems a bit dull as we've seen it all before.
The film has a lot of atmosphere and a great Clint Mansell soundtrack which sounds like the fairytale music of Danny Elfman with an electronic edge. The film for me isn't clever, intelligent or unique but it is well made.
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the technique of filtering alluvial particles of gold from the waters of becks and rivers using sheeps' fleeces is both practical, and known to've been used in that area (and elsewhere); and was still in use in places in the second half of the 20th century c.e.°
(° - yr hmbl srppnt. s'spects, but does not know, that this continues into the first half of the 21st century c.e.)
unfortunately, while the adventure story is exciting, and its and the background details are definitely intetesting, the characters of the main players don't come alive off the page: how to portray the members of a crew of ''heroes'' who are essentially ~eighteen-to-thirty year old armed thugs a-viking as significantly different from one another, and at least one or two of them as sympathetic characters - to anyone who isn't of a similar thuggish mind-set - hopefully, most of his readers - was a skill robert graves hadn't yet learned.
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This is indeed the 2.35 widescreen for the first time, in a 16:9 frame. It is the cut US edition, bringing the length down from 2:06 to 1:47. The picture quality is not sharp at all.
There are Italian and English language tracks. The Italian edition contains an original male vocal over the opening titles. No extras.
It is all region, but PAL format. I don't think NTSC DVD players will display it, but your computer likely will. Dual layer.
I think the movie is alright, with lovely sets and interesting characters. Some of the attempts at humor are just too lame though, especially with Jemmy's sidekick Squint.
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There are Italian and English language tracks. The Italian edition contains an original male vocal over the opening titles. No extras.
It is all region, but PAL format. I don't think NTSC DVD players will display it, but your computer likely will. Dual layer.
I think the movie is alright, with lovely sets and interesting characters. Some of the attempts at humor are just too lame though, especially with Jemmy's sidekick Squint.
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Still is, and ever will be Paul Thomas Anderson's Masterpiece.
An ensemble character study of a collection of people who are either closely related or more loosely so, but all bearing some relationship to the others by degrees, and how those relationships change when set against a surreal set of circumstances which act as a catalyst:
...A couple pretty offensive types who are broken down during the course of the movie to reveal their humanity, while other more genial ones are revealed to have the darkest undertones, and even a few weaker people discovering some real strength,
A must see. Very moving, well orchestrated, quirky, odd, and has Philip Seymour Hoffman's most devastatingly human role as a carer for the terminally ill, Tom Cruise doing the full obnoxious bit (initially), before turning in a: "Should have got an Oscar" performance, and a brilliant set of soundtrack songs by Aimee Mann.
(but the whole cast is excellent too).
Watch it... Watch it now! :)
((I copied and edited this review from my own review on the DVD page))
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Archetypical eighties high school melodrama: Poor girl loves rich boy, their friends from rich world / poor world don't mix, and make it hard for them etc. tears, tantrums, cheeeeeese.
(Does have a Cure tune in the soundtrack, as well as the brilliant title track, so not a total disaster in that respect)
Except here, in this epic slice of dated cheese, the thing that makes this is the Father / Daughter relationship between Ringwald and Harry Dean Stanton, and shows why he is one of my favourite actors of all time.
(James Spader also showing why he was king of the eighties high school baddies too :)
You don't need CGI to add depth to a movie, and make it immersive, you just need Harry, or someone like him.
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