Is there any love for Gesualdo? I just watched it tonight, and next to Land of Silence and Darkness, which also received 0 votes in this poll, it's my favorite human subject Herzog documentary. The bagpipe scene where the guy was playing into the cracks to satisfy the evil spirit of Gesualdo was just totally O_O amazing, as were all of the professional ensemble vocal performances. Top notch even if that one lady with the red hair was TOTALLY ott.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
It's the next day and I am still thinking about this. The OTT red haired woman is "Milva", apparently? She is truly UNBELIEVABLE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgBt5EkIKE
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
i need to see that one! looks amazing, and weird. didn't even know it existed til alex ross did his gesualdo article in the Ny-er a couple months back.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Gesualdo is the portrait of a perfect Herzog subject, and it's handled well and concisely. Also, only an hour long.
I really want to post lurid details about Gesualdo, but I will refrain out of politeness.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he seems like a wild n crazy guy, with emphasis on the "crazy"
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
haven't seen it, sounds interesting
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
feel like there is always more Herzog for me to watch
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Listen to how beautiful crazy sounds! This seems to be Gesualdo's greatest hit, if youtube results are any indicator. (This is one of the ensembles from the movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_q3EJNUKis
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
hey here's the whole thingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=CBanw2yUPdk
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
my son, my son what have ye done isn't very good
― shur fine (am0n), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
ha, that one is sitting in my watch instantly queue, i keep suggesting it to my wife and she says hell no. she's probably right.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
its watchable, just didn't do a whole lot for me. produced by david lynch!
― shur fine (am0n), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
been very curious about that one, as I love everyone involved.
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Gesualdo: Death For Five Voices is probably my sentimental favorite Herzog film. Partially because I love Gesualdo's music so much, but also because it is the perfect subject material for a Herzog 'documentary'. It's been layered and over-mythologized to such an extent that no one will ever know exactly what happened, and then Herzog gets in there with his freewheeling camera and taking a wrecking ball to reality
I watch that youtube of 'Moro, lasso, al mio duolo' a lot. Many recordings of Gesualdo lay on the ambience & cavernous room tone, but it really is meant to be sitting room music performed in small spaces so you can follow every last quirk of each individual voice, so the two performances in Herzog's film are basically two of my favorite Gesualdo recordings of all time
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
remarkably poor grammar in that post, even for me, but go ahead and dig for reality
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Bells From The Deep 1
at first, i thought this was balls from the deep.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
fata morgana is the answer to your question. or maybe land of silence and darkness.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 30 March 2012 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
I loved both of those, but I found the Leonard Cohen songs in Fata Morgana extremely distracting. The Third Ear Band song was good, though. I've probably said that before.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 30 March 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
Also I didn't realize it, but I guess Milva is famous -- http://www.youtube.com/artist/Milva
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 30 March 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
watching 'fata morgana' was the 1st time i ever really "got" the appeal of leonard cohen
― johnny crunch, Friday, 30 March 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
The Third Ear Band song was good, though.
... and Blind Faith too
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
I liked it a lot, more than Rescue Dawn or Bad Lt. The first half-hour had me discouraged but it built something powerful.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
was listening to the 'heart of glass' audio commentary, love this
under hypnosis imagination functions very well. i tested it by having people under hypnosis and i would ask them to write a poem because there is something like poetic language in all of us and of course it wouldn't function if i asked you 'you are shakespeare write me a sonnet' it wouldn't function, it depends on the quality of suggestion so i told the people under hypnosis this 'you are on a foreign island, the first one who sets his foot now on this island for centuries and it's overgrown with uh jungleous butterflies strange birds singing and you are walking through the jungle and you come across a gigantic cliff and upon closer inspection this entire cliff this entire escarpment is made of pure emerald and a holy monk hundreds of years ago spent his entire life with a chisel and a hammer to scratch a poem into the wall of that because it's like diamond and it took him all his life to engrave only three lines of a poem' and i said please open your eyes and you will see it you will be the first one to see it and you will read it to me
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
ha ha ha
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
a finer human could not have been produced by sciencei never listen to the commentary but i appreciate that someone does and then transcribes it for my enjoyment
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
how's the film, btw? i've never seen, & have that ass-backwards impulse to read this regardless: http://www.ipgbook.com/every-night-the-trees-disappear-products-9781569766071.php
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
amazing landscapes, popol vuh, entertaining, hyno-induced nonsequiturs, i couldnt ask for much more tbh
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
uh that should read *hypno*-induced
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
ha. thanks. i've seen herzog's films in a really skewed order, i still have a bunch of the big guns to see.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
the book looks good, fwiw
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not his best movie but sdtk is top 3 PV albums imo.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
later in the commentary he also said 'i like to use actors who know how to milk cows'
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
'into the abyss' is on netflix streaming now
― lebron traveled (am0n), Sunday, 15 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
into the abyss was some really sad stuff, great film. it made me think about having nightmares where you've committed a crime or something, just the root ugliness at the heart of the state and the serious criminal.
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
It was really sad. I don't know if I could watch that one again. I just watched Invincible for the first time last night, and it was pretty good but the Zimmer soundtrack was a bit syrupy for me.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Invincible was one of the first movies I watched with Je55e.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://futurestates.tv/episodes/plastic-bag
― am0n, Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Zimmer with Herzog is such a weird idea. And mini-Zimmer Klaus Badelt did most of the scoring on Rescue Dawn too.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
are u guys watching that? herzog is narrating from a plastic bag's pov
― am0n, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's pretty great
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
music score is sorta bad
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Into the Abyss completely ruined my night. just deeply depressing on multiple levels. don't think it's one i'll ever return to.
― circa1916, Thursday, 10 May 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yoo hooHas anyone read the book about Heart of Glass yet? Every Night the Trees Disappear by Alan Greenberg?
If so,(1) recommend?(2) is the music discussed at all, or just the movie/circumstances surrounding the making of the movie?
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/jack-reacher/trailers/jack-reacher-theatrical-trailer-30887645.html
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
I got the Heart of Glass book (Every Night the Trees Disappear) for Christmas and I'm already halfway done. It's got short chapters/vignettes about the production of the movie (which involved villagers and hypnotism, typically) intercut with excerpts of some kind of treatment of the movie itself. Enjoyable easy reading, nothing about the music yet but at least it's not stuffy/academic (yet).
― passion it person (La Lechera), Saturday, 29 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
added to wishlist
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 31 December 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
I just finished it -- it's enjoyable, and has lots of poignant/puzzling classic Herzog moments. Nothing about the soundtrack, but there's a small bit at the end about the Ancient Music Ensemble that plays on Skellig rock, but I don't even remember that part at all. Guess it's time to watch the movie again!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Oh and there's this hilarious part where Herzog is like (I'm paraphrasing here) "I'm the best person at handling music in movies, I am #1" and then some other guy comes along and says no, he is the worst.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
other guy is wrong
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 December 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Agree. I just checked and it was Thomas Binkley of the Ancient Music Ensemble, who only approved of the way Hollywood handles movie music. Apparently he spent a large portion of the evening talking about Mickey Mouse, so clearly he cannot be trusted.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link