What did you think?
What did you think of the score?
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
I thought the score was great also - a large part of what gave the film a sense of some unifying principle. I like it that Bill Morrison describes it as a "horror film". That's pretty much how I felt about it, too.
Amateurist, please come back and talk about this! I'd love to know if your job (if you are still doing what I thought you were doing) gives you any kind of insight into the process that makes these images the way they are in Decasia - some seemed to be just scratched, others solarized, others had blotches and bubbles on them.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 12 April 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 12 April 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 12 April 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 12 April 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― (Jon L), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
But the images themselves are so great, it's just that everything the filmmaker seems to have done (putting them together and placing them by the score) is done badly.
― Dan I., Monday, 12 April 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
love Decasia.
this is p good too
http://barbesbrooklyn.com/minershymns/index.html
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 December 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh, that looks interesting.
― emil.y, Sunday, 9 December 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Hated Decasia - hate Michael Gordon, he's an awful too.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 December 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Whatev, Light is Calling is one of my half dozen favorite movies of the last decade.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
Bill Morrison retro at NY MoMA incl 3 live performances
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1524
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Glenn Kenny on Morrison box:
http://www.rogerebert.com/demanders/beauty-in-the-broken-filmmaker-bill-morrisons-visions-of-decay-celebrated-in-new-box-set
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
the melting of the imagery becomes a central event in the re-editing of 1926’s “The Bells,” an anti-Semitic propaganda film that Morrison “redeems” through his imaginative reediting in two films
That's news to me.
― Eric H., Friday, 24 October 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
Don't know it, tho some appear to see stereotypes typical of the era.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Wish I was able to make it to that retrospective; partner's a huge Morrison fan.
― etc, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
The Collected Works DVD box set features four DVDs and then Decasia on Blu-Ray - and only Blu-Ray. Where is the logic here, exactly? I mean, I get it, release the Blu-Ray version, but at least include a DVD version too, since, you know, the rest of the box set is comprised of DVDs. Frustrating!
― Wimmels, Friday, 3 July 2015 23:25 (eight years ago) link
huh, weird.
i have to admi i don't really like decasia since it basically hits the same note over and over again (emotionally, i mean, though i guess literally too in the form of the drone-y soundtrack). it's not a very complex experience.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 3 July 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
saw Morrison's new one yesterday at NYFF, amazing gold rush footage/photos, not to mention an unlikely film-preservation tale. also, 1919 World Series footage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvT4cQuXyw4
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/09/the-discovery-and-recovery-of-the-king-tuts-tomb-of-silent-era-cinema
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 October 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link