Movie/film suggestions.


 

While this is of course a forum for the discussion of all things audio/hi-fi and music, pretty much all of us are also lovers of movies, the enjoyment of which is effected by the reproduction of the sound they contain (with the exception of silent movies wink).

I've been focused on David Lynch movies since his death, but with current events so much a part of our lives at the moment, I plan on re-watching a movie I’ve seen only once, and years ago. That movie is:

The Madness Of King George. Apropos, no?

 

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Post election I'm leaning heavily into the Criterion Collection for relief, tranquility, and determination to escape the grotesquerie of the news cycle.  Criterion was fortunately rescued from AT&T's decimation of Time Warner/HBO properties after acquisition, and for $100/year deserves the subscription of any film lover.  Recent finds include Mark Cousins's impressionistic Orson Wells documentary "The Eyes of Orson Wells" and "Mr. Arkadin" (in two cuts), and Sean Baker's "The Prince of Broadway" and "Starlets"-- the latter a risqué but convincing vindication of the acting skills of a fourth generation of Hemingway women.  Also much enjoyed introducing my wife to Truffaut's "400 Blows."  

After a promising start Linda Manz pretty much dropped out of acting. Another one of hers to catch is Dennis Hopper’s "Out of the Blue"(1980). It’s full of improvised dialog, raw and ponderous, but not far off from Hopper’s Easy Rider in mood. Feels like Hopper was drawing a painfully sharp dividing line between between ’70s and ’80s culture and film making.