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thanks!" written on Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:10:00 +0100 (BST):
quoted 2 lines Thanks guys/girls, I now have the Blade-runner and
>Thanks guys/girls, I now have the Blade-runner and
>Eraser Head soundtracks on order!
Most of my favourite movies happen to be those that blend together
visuals and audio in a really unique way. Blade Runner and Eraserhead
are just two examples. THX-1138, Delicatessen and The City of Lost
Children are others. A lot of David Lynch films also fit this
category, but I think Eraserhead and Lost Highway are two of his best.
Yep, as others have pointed out, Eraserhead is pretty fucked, but in a
good way. I'd say it's almost essential watching for IDM fans. The
soundtrack (and by that I mean "the sounds" as opposed to "the music")
is amazing. Lots of industrial hisses, unnerving drones, deafening
screeches, etc. For me, the whole movie comes across as an
audio-visual tone poem. There's no real plot as such (which basically
involves some guy looking after his girlfriend's bizarre offspring,
which resembles some Giger-esque cross between an alien and a turkey),
but there doesn't really need to be. Each and every scene's just there
as an excuse to deliver lots of dark, disturbing eye and ear candy. If
Lynch had made Eraserhead today, he would have had the Aphex Twin
produce the soundtrack, no question.
Yep, and make sure you don't miss out on Lost Highway -- definitely my
all-time favourite Lynch movie. It has all the eye and ear candy of
Eraserhead, but this time there's actually a pretty decent story to be
told -- all about dual identities/transferrence, etc. The plot of the
movie also resembles some sort of moebius strip. Even though time
appears to have been advancing at a chronological rate, the end of the
movie perfectly joins up back at the beginning. Great soundtrack too
from the likes of Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, etc.
--
Mark Stevens
http://www.headspin.clara.net/
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