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     Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.124.67 |
I picked up my ticket for the Dublin showing of this. Hopefully there's still some left in the UK for you guys?  http://www.cinematical.com/2010/08/03/directors-cut-of-metropolis-gets-special-screenings-in-englan/ | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.49 |
Missed out on tickets for the NFT unfortunately. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Minima are supposedly doing a live score to it sometime and I *really* want to see that! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Looks like it's going to be in Bristol for three weeks so I'm sure we'll catch it | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Ah! I've seen this at the National Media Museum with live music - brilliant! Go to see it if you can.  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.223.58 |
It's in the National Concert Hall in Dublin, so yes, there'll be live music! I saw DRACULA with Philip Glass' new score there too. Live music has a magical effect on film. On Hallowe'en they're showing PSYCHO with a live score, too. That'll be fantastic... | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I have to say I'd need to be persuaded. Silent films with a live score by all means, but how do they muffle the actual music track of a sound film? Does it affect the rest of the soundtrack? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.216.51 |
I assume they're just removing the music track. Unless they've removed all sound and added intertitles. That would be interesting. I wonder if modern films would be more improved by being made silent movies than 3D. They certainly need less of something, not more. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
That would be an interesting exercise, Proto. I've certainly always thought of Carnival of Souls as a silent film and I'd love to see it with just the organ music. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/blog/alfred-hitchcocks-psycho-live/ I fear this makes it sound as if you're too aware of the orchestra - I think I'd find it actually distracting, and certainly no improvement. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Kate, there are certainly some DVDs that allow you to isolate the music track and play the film just with that - I don't know if that's the case with Carnival of Souls. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
No idea about Carnival of Souls but we can do it with our DVD of Horror Express! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.48.70 |
Michael Powell said there was no such thing as a silent film. There was always music, audience noise, people reading out the captions. Hey - Scorsese is directing a 3D film! | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
I've never seen that option on a DVD before, Ramsey. Now I'll have to look! But why would anyone want to see Horror Express silent? The dialogue wouldn't be the same without that Cushing/Lee delivery. "Monster? We're British, you know."  "This young lady is in trouble." "Well, what do you suggest WE do about it?" | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.68.102 |
"I fear this makes it sound as if you're too aware of the orchestra - I think I'd find it actually distracting, and certainly no improvement." Maybe it's not the best way of seeing the film - it might be better to think of it as the best way of hearing the score. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.68.102 |
"Hey - Scorsese is directing a 3D film!" Because his recent work has been too subtle..? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.48.70 |
It's a kids book it's based on, and a good one, about George Mellies. I reckon it could be wondrous (the book was). 3D in the hands of a real artist will blow our minds. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.48.70 |
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/17/martin-scorseses-3d-will-be-in-your-face/ It sounds great I think. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.49.80 |
“Scorsese is in love with [3D]. He looked at Avatar and Alice [in Wonderland] and Scorsese didn’t feel that the 3D he saw was as interesting as in the old ones like Dial M for Murder and House of Wax. He’s decided he wants to be stronger with 3D to make it jump out at you. He’s going to go a little bit further with it.” Actually, perhaps that makes sense. Stop pretending that 3D is immersive. It's the opposite - it's shoots out at us. 3D only works as a gimmick. To use it as such is to be honest with oneself. If David Lynch goes 3D, I'll get artistically excited, though. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.229.55 |
I would like to see a 3D film of the Book of Revelations - have I mentioned this? Sans plot, sans Hollywood-izing - just take the book, and create a totally context-less madhouse spectacle, putting everything on the page as literally as possible into motion. Throw up descriptions-into-film: a moving-pictures Tarot of sorts, leaving the viewer to decipher (or not, maybe just to absorb what's there) the greater meanings from pure surface visualizations and scene-painting.... | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 82.14.63.144 |
I'm still upset that this thread isn't about the city where Superman lives. |