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| bartist |
 Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:49 am |
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Just looked at the soundtrack (yes, I wondered if "Crazy" was there...and it was...) and it whets my desire to see C.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401085/soundtrack
I don't think Willie Nelson was the one trying to block U.S. distribution. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:58 am |
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C.R.A.Z.Y did play here. I remember seeing it on the movie page, but I knew nothing about it and didn't know it was Canadian. This was a number of years ago.
By the way, I picked up 12 Monkeys and The Fifth Element today. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:08 pm |
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The fifth element is chick power. What a dumb movie. 12 Monkeys is 60 times better a film (I did the math).
But Luc Besson does know how to paint on a celluloid canvas, I'll go with that. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:21 pm |
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bartist wrote: Just looked at the soundtrack (yes, I wondered if "Crazy" was there...and it was...) and it whets my desire to see C.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401085/soundtrack
I don't think Willie Nelson was the one trying to block U.S. distribution.
If you like "Crazy," Patsy Cline, and/or Charles Aznavour, this movie will send you to seventh heaven. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:19 pm |
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| A funny thing during my morning wash up. When I was in Israel with my late wife, staying at my friend's house in Eilat, I was washing up one morning and listening to an English language station on the radio. Mostly music. They played Crazy and when it was finished the DJ said in his Israeli accent. "Patsy Cline, Crazy....Meshugah!" I cracked up. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:29 pm |
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Volume 7 of "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues" is Piano Blues, directed by Clint Eastwood. It's mostly Eastwood going around chatting with his favorite blues artists, talking about who their first influences were, and a lot of musical numbers of course, both by the current stars and their influences. The active stars (as of 2002) include Ray Charles, Dr. John, Marcia Ball, (never heard of her before), Jay McShann and Dave Brubeck and archival performances include Nat King Cole, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Oscar Peterson, Dorothy Donegan and Marsha Davis.
This is a pretty laid-back and unstructured documentary, but a pleasant way to spend ninety minutes. At the end you have a whole series of duets between varied pairs of musicians. I thought the segments directed by Scorsese and Winders were better, but this compares favorably with the Chicago blues, and it's certainly nice to see Ray Charles again. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 1:09 am |
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I watched Django Reinhardt: Three-Fingered Lightning last night. It was pretty good and interesting, but felt a bit rushed in its 50 minute runtime. It certainly would have been nice to get more performances, instead of just music over still photographs. There is a one-song performance in the extras.
It would also have been nice to get more about gypsy music of the time and more about Django's family life and youth. His brother played guitar in his band, which you'd onyl know if you carefully read the old posters shown in the film, while his son also became a guitarist. They could also have compared/contrasted Django's playing with other jazz guitarists of the era -- Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian, Les Paul, Freddie Green, Oscar Moore. Lang and Paul are mentioned in passing. Oddly a number of the early jazz guitar greats died young -- Christian gone at 25; Lang was killed by Bing Crosby at age 30*; Django only made it to 43.
It would have also been interesting to know the origins of the unusual all-string -- 3 guitar, bass-fiddle and violin -- jazz quintet. And a little talk about blues guitar and the development of Western swing bands. Etc. More.
That's what I wanted. More. I assume this was done for French television and that's why it's so short. But you figure they could toss on to the Dvd, Part II: All the Stuff We Were Forced to Edit Out.
* okay, so it was indirect, and Bing was trying to help |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:27 am |
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In case folks be wondering, Django had the normal quantity of fingers, but two were damaged/paralyzed due to a fire in his trailer when he was 18. A very gypsy story of coming home in the wee hours from a music gig, knocking over a candle and having the celluloid his wife used to make artificial flowers ignite a roaring blaze in his trailer.
[See, cliches exist for a reason ...]
Anyway, Django had been a professional musician since 13, and had to relearn how to play with more limited fingering, which led to his distinctive style.
And for anyone who is a fan of Django's The Hot Club of France recordings, especially the pre-war version with Stephane Grappelli on violin, you might also want to search out some Eddie Lang (g) - Joe Venuti (v) recordings. Their recordings date back to at least 1927, a few years before Django started recording. And they were huge in 20's jazz, with Lang recording with Frankie Trumbauer, Satchmo, Bix, Bessie Smith, Annette Hanshaw, Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby, etc. Basically everyone who was big in NYC in the late 20's until Lang's death in early '33.
Some Django to get hold of:
Nuages, Minor Swing, Belleville .. and I'd have to check for other titles. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:33 am |
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Used to have a Django compilation CD....great stuff, Nuages, Sw. GA Brown, Honeysuckle Rose, Melodie au Crepuscule, etc. Every track was wonderful and, amazingly, it cost something like $5 at some CD warehouse store. Moved most of the tracks over to an MP3 player when I sold my CDs. I'd heard about his bum hand but didn't know the details. Talk about making lemonade from a lemon.
Really enjoyed the Piano Blues volume - very laid-back indeed and Clint radiating quiet joy as he gets to sit beside all those greats. Nice to see McShann, who used to play the Zoo Bar here in Lincoln all the time. And Oscar Peterson, whose "My Favorite Instrument" I played to death on my parents stereo and was primary motivator for me taking piano lessons in high school. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:02 am |
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| Actually saw The Notebook, believe it or not, because it was on Oxygen Channel by coincidence--and rather enjoyed it on its own manipulative terms. My favorite of the four leads was (surprisingly) Rachel McAdams, but they were all adept and the story was reasonably interesting. This will never be a favorite Gosling for me, but it wasn't a total time-waster. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:39 pm |
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What did Dolores think about The Notebook? I trust her opinion more than yours.  |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:59 pm |
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marantzo wrote: What did Dolores think about The Notebook? I trust her opinion more than yours.
She loved it. Chick flick, what can I say? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:45 pm |
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| I was sort of expecting that. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:18 pm |
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The Notebook wasn't half bad. I think the movie that my companion and I shredded under the Claes Oldenburg sculpture was the other recent Nick Sparks movie, now that I reflect back on it. Wires crossed in the old neural net. Now if I can remember what the movie was....but maybe just as well I don't.
Nights in Rodentia {Sideshow Bob Shudder} |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:36 pm |
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Well, why wait for Billy? Reflect back, is redundant.  |
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