When is THE RETURNED returning....i love the MUSIC in this!Quality. Watch very little TV these days.
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ROCKET MICK wrote: When is THE RETURNED returning....i love the MUSIC in this!Quality. Watch very little TV these days.
2015 i think😕
Balloons. Brilliant. New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down, God they even swing briefly into Julie Cruise song from Twin Peaks at the start.
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Coops wrote: I just watched Star Trek Into Darkness.
It was bobbins.
I really enjoyed it. I thought the story kept moving on a notch so that it never got boring. Too much action or too much story can make these sort of films tedious, but I really thought they got the mix of action and story about right. One justified the other. Also the bit at the beginning where they were being fired at with spears looked great in 3D.
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Debaser wrote:
Factory™ wrote: Balloons. Brilliant. New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
Yep white ballons were a regular feature at the end of LCD gigs. It was one way of knowing when the gig was about to end if you wanted to beat the crowd out the door.
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Factory™ wrote:
bloodynora wrote: WHAT?
merde.
Good evening, mademoiselle Nora
good afternoon, monsieur factoire.
i have been watching:
what remains - very good, looking forward to tonight's ep.
portlandia - all series on netflix, also very good. very very funny. and very intelligent without seeming so, which is a rare and brilliant trick. but how come whatshername out of sleater-kinney gets to be a really cool pop star AND a really ace comic actress? NOT FAIR.
last weekend i saw 'upstream color' at the pictures. it boggled my mind.
Just watched a little of the Star Trek movie. The brief scene where the blonde... lady... who strips off left me bewildered - even in 2013 - I would have loved to have been in the cinema, just to see the reaction of the movie-goers!
ROCKET MICK wrote: When is THE RETURNED returning....i love the MUSIC in this!Quality. Watch very little TV these days.
Just stumbled on THIS - with a bit about The Returned towards the bottom of the page. My understanding is that normally when someone does a soundtrack, they watch the screen and try to make the music match. But I get the impression that wasn't the case with Mogwai.
I've seen the first two episodes now and it's a beautiful-looking TV show.
Debaser wrote:
ROCKET MICK wrote: When is THE RETURNED returning....i love the MUSIC in this!Quality. Watch very little TV these days.
Just stumbled on THIS - with a bit about The Returned towards the bottom of the page. My understanding is that normally when someone does a soundtrack, they watch the screen and try to make the music match. But I get the impression that wasn't the case with Mogwai.
I've seen the first two episodes now and it's a beautiful-looking TV show.
it is a beautiful-looking show, and i think the music more than matches it. you're right about the process - the brief seems to have been to capture the essence of the programme, and for me it does exactly that.
"Mogwai had only seen a few English scripts for the drama before they started on the music. "We were aware of trying to keep it not as a typical soundtrack, more just music that doesn't necessarily do anything that has a bit of presence," guitarist John Cummings told the Quietus. That's underselling it a bit; there's no need to see the TV show (though I'd highly recommend it) to appreciate the subtlety of Mogwai's score. While the musical structures are often simple, continually recasting the motif featured in "Whisky Time"-- which plays as a coach-load of school children crashes over the edge of a winding cliff road in the first episode-- in xylophone, piano, and guitar, they push individual sounds to disquieting levels; the xylophone nursery rhyme-like tinkling that opens "Hungry Face" is so concentrated and piercing that it's quite painful to listen to, trilling at an unholy pitch, and again on "Fridge Magic", where slab-like bass shifts act as the foil to the xylophone's wandering curiosity. The way the repeated motifs falter matches how the presence of the undead in "Les Revenants" makes the electricity fizzle and splutter."
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17764-mogwai-les-revenants/
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i'm finally catching up with 'breaking bad'. i saw a bit of one episode once a couple of years ago and it looked like a cliched violent drugs drama, which put me off, as did the ENDLESS fawning over it. oh, do they JUXTAPOSE the middle-aged middle-class white man with drug subcultures? HOW SUBVERSIVE. but now i've seen a season or two and i'm embarrassed of myself for being so stubborn and contrary. it's very good, isn't it? layered and sympathetic and morally ambiguous with some GORGEOUS cinematography chucked in here and there (i especially like the 'passage of time' skies). reminds me of nothing so much as the wonderful 'six feet under'.
Debaser wrote:
Just stumbled on THIS - with a bit about The Returned towards the bottom of the page.
incidentally, zombies are apparently "the official monsters of the recession". i was reading something recently about their recent resurgence in popular culture. it wasn't this, but this will do. http://www.channel4.com/news/zombie-nation-economy-films-popular-culture-horror-tv
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Factory™ wrote: Is it just me or does one of the often recurring music pieces by Mogwai sound like a straight rip off of the intro to Over by Portishead ?
just seen someone else say the same thing. ripped YOU straight off. swiped it wholesale.
TUT.
bloodynora wrote:
Factory™ wrote: Is it just me or does one of the often recurring music pieces by Mogwai sound like a straight rip off of the intro to Over by Portishead ?
just seen someone else say the same thing. ripped YOU straight off. swiped it wholesale.
TUT.
Good good.
Watched Neds on Film4 the other night . With subtitles ON , obviously . Wouldn't have had a bloody clue what was going on without them.
bloodynora wrote:
Factory™ wrote: Is it just me or does one of the often recurring music pieces by Mogwai sound like a straight rip off of the intro to Over by Portishead ?
just seen someone else say the same thing. ripped YOU straight off. swiped it wholesale.
TUT.
Who dat? You cheating on us with another forum? [:eek]
WOULD I? (yes.)
it's really interesting to see the different dynamics and group characteristics, actually. (can you believe someone posted something about the blue balls festival in lucerne and no-one so much as SNIGGERED?!) i MUCH prefer you uncouth lot. or maybe it's stockholm syndrome. tried the morrissey forum once - they are LUNATICS.
(oh, speaking of whom: moz book latest.)
what did you think of neds, johnny?
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bloodynora wrote:
what did you think of neds, johnny?
I did think about answering that with a totally undecipherable Glaswegian insult but i won't haha!
Yep, very good powerful drama.Certainly not a waste of 2 hours.Great acting by the lead character, John.But i thought his fall from bright pupil to Non Educated Delinquent seemed very sudden once he'd met the Young Car-D gang.Though i guess the seeds were already sewn once he'd had the door slammed on him by the mum of the middle class lad he was developing a friendship with.
edit: oh and also could relate a lot to that growing up in the 1970s thing as i did myself though it was obviously never as rough round my way as Glasgow was.Though i did have my moments. I even remember slumping in front of the TV watching Robinson Crusoe as a kid just like the young John did.
bloodynora wrote: :
what remains - very good, looking forward to tonight's ep.
Watched it all in one go this afternoon. It were good, aye.The house was the star etc etc
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Anyone been watching the Sound Of Cinema series on bbc4? Good this week, looking at work of Morricone and how Badalamenti worked with Lynch to create those masterpieces including the theme to Twin Peaks.
Interesting to learn also that Lynch had wanted to use Song To The Siren in Blue Velvet but couldn't afford the license . Though he did later use it in Lost Highway.
Had a peak at Peaky Blinders . Those attempts at Brummie accents ,all over the shop 😄
i've been recording sound of the cinema, not got round to watching yet.
had a peek at peaky blinders myself, wasn't impressed, despite the (mostly) rave reviews.
what AREN'T i watching now? american telly's back after the summer break and i'm like a pig in mud. modern family, parks and rec, nashville, elementary.
oh, and i've seen baz luhrmann's romeo + juliet about six times in the last week. golly, leonardo dicaprio was a pretty little thing back in the day, wasn't he? that film transports me back to the 90s with such ferocious speed i feel a bit travel sick.
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Wow did anyone see Goldfrapp doing Annabel on Later just now? That was pretty special.
Keyboard player was a bit weird though and Jools rather strangely and annoyingly kept emphasising "frapp" every time he said Goldfrapp
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Well i still seem to be persevering with Peaky Blinders, not sure why. Maybe just out of a sense of loyalty to Birmingham 😄 Though which are more dodgy - the accents or the haircuts?
Sound of cinema was great..Found out that one of my all time fav films The Birds,had no soundtrack!! I notice now of course Dont go to see many films now (bar alan partridge) but a lot of recent soundtracks on films and tv seem to have the atmospheric sigur ros type thing going on 😎
