Angelo Badalamenti on working with David Lynch has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash on that post.

gooOOOO KLST San Angelo, Texas WITH THE GIANT WEATHER COCK!!

Did not see many movies this year, so I've only got 6 total on my list, which you should be thankful for, because I can't write film reviews worth a damn. Thanks for posting your list Sarzy, you've got great taste.


The Good

1) Drive - Awesome, like a more commercial, modern day Vanishing Point. Minimalist, tightly paced male action-fantasy with art-house nuance and an effectively simple score by Angelo Badalamenti. A real human being... and a real hero....

2) Super 8 - A nice homage to the Speilberg of the 80s, with some violent Abramsisms tossed into the mix. Not as deep as Spielberg, but still a great time at the theater.


The Bad

1) Harry Potter: Part 7: Part 2: Part 1 - booooooooooring

2) Melencholia - boooooooooooring. Remember when Lars Von Trier used to make good movies like Dogville and Dancer in the Dark? No more. The movie focuses on a loathsome, uninteresting family during the last few days of the Earth's existence. Very little happens. Then they die. The opening credits are beautiful and have more to say than the entire rest of the film.

3) Cowboys & Aliens - Complete failure to combine some tried and tested elements (The Western, Sci Fi, Harrison Ford and Jon Favrau).


The Ugly

1) Sucker Punch - It's a bold, beautiful, ambitious and highly imaginative disaster. Ridiculously stupid story. If you like terrible movies, this is one to put on your list. Supposedly the directors cut is even better/worse.

The key is having Beverly D'Angelo in the scene.

>> ^blankfist:

Plenty of examples where eyelines aren't broken at a rectangle table.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spmqbs8YCW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DIhwWTHcG0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_b0-mMtp8Y
And so on...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Speed Kills, Michael Angelo Batio, gutar solo, fast, speed, Wait for it' to 'Speed Kills, Michael Angelo Batio, guitar solo, fast, speed, Wait for it' - edited by xxovercastxx

Gah, Michael Angelo. I remember seeing him play a little over 20 years ago. He was doing a weird local guitarshop-sponsored free demonstration for 12 people or so before he played later that night. He looks and plays almost exactly the same. He's the the most emotionally sterile professional guitar player I think I've ever seen.

I have no particular attachment to lyrics. I love instrumental jazz, enjoy classical, and have been on a major kick of foreign rock lately because it's great to be able to appreciate voice as an instrument without having to understand the (frequently) trite lyrics.

Roll Tide establishes a theme and presents variations on it. It's structure is quite classical, as a lot of metal is. The issue I raise with Vai (& Satriani & Michael Angelo Batio) is that they are shredding for the sake of shredding. I don't stand opposed to shredding, but I feel that it's at its best as an interlude to a piece with harmony, melody, arc, etc.

A drum machine and two guitars is just not my idea of a good time (except for maybe Ratatat). I certainly appreciate the absolutely insane technical skill of these guys, I just often believe that they're squandering it.>> ^juliovega914:

I feel Nightwish's Crimson Tide stands to show that a song can be good listening without lyrics.
http://videosift.com/video/Nightwish-Crimson-Tide-Instrumental-Roll-Ti
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>> ^geo321:
I'm thinking that it would be a beautiful world if we could recognize and accept the naked forms of human beings and be able to respect those forms as a part of our lives that there'e nothing to be ashamed of..


It's not the nudity, it'd the breast squeezing and finger fucking.

>> ^geo321:
Her gestures moving along with the music are artistic to me. Art is subjective. I just don't get censoring a video for breasts. I guess that's North America for us.


Her "gestures" are squeezing her breasts and finger fucking.

>> ^geo321:
My view is that I don't find someone showing their breasts as that big a deal or shocking or to be instantly classified as porn.


She's not "showing" her breasts, she's fondling and squeezing them. And finger fucking.

I, personally, think the video itself is awesome. But the intention of it is so... erotically in-your-face, I don't see how anyone can argue "artistic merit".
To me, an example of female nudity, i.e. BREASTS, having "artistic merit" is the very first song in David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti's Industrial Symphony No. 1, "I fell for you baby, like a bomb." No finger fucking.

Great movie, and an awesome deleted scene. Can't figure out why they took it out. It's not very long. It exposes a part of Cusack's character in an interesting, non-expositional way. Beverly D'Angelo is smoke'n hot.

Why take it out?

Whoa mama Bev D'Angelo still looking hot here. Not to be crude but in this situation I'd be highly tempted to say "don't you think it woudl REALLY piss your husband off if we fucked!?"

This was an awesome movie. (although the low-bitrate conversion to youtube makes the strobe effect really annoying).

The music for this movie was primarily done by Angelo Badalamenti. He has often worked with David Lynch.

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I already have Elvis and P.J. Harvey in my side bar, old and new, man and woman..well, so many to choose from, the Beatles track is indeed a classic..

Mystery:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Angelo-Badalamenti-Laura-Palmer-s-Theme

I love Angelo. One of my favorite film composers.