trains in cinema, part 4

- woody allen: zelig, 1983





- pt anderson: there will be blood, 2007

- wes anderson: darjeeling limited, 2007

- james benning: rr (railroad), 2007 *



- claude berri: le vieil homme et l'enfant (the two of us), 1967

- robert bresson: un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou le vent souffle où il veut (man escaped), 1956



- robert bresson: pickpocket, 1959





- frank capra: mr. smith goes to washington, 1939




- frank capra: arsenic and old lace, 1944

- david chase: the sopranos, 1999-2007




- andrew dominik: the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford, 2007







- hsiao-hsien hou: le voyage du ballon rouge, 2007



- akira kurosawa: one wonderful sunday, 1947







- akira kurosawa: stray dog, 1949







- albert lamorisse: le ballon rouge, 1956

- ernst lubitsch: ninotchka, 1939



- terrence malick: days of heaven, 1978






- oscar micheaux: body and soul, 1925

- f.w. murnau: sunrise: a song of two humans, 1927

- ermanno olmi, abbas kiarostami & ken loach: tickets, 2005

- yasujiro ozu: early spring, 1956
- yasujiro ozu: tokyo twilight, 1957

- tony richardson: the loneliness of the long distance runner, 1962





- douglas sirk: all that heaven allows, 1955




- douglas sirk: imitation of life, 1959



- john stahl: imitation of life, 1934



- matthew swiezynski: fludd's memory system, 2007



- wim wenders: paris, texas, 1984

- robert wise: the day the earth stood still, 1951







- robert wise: the sound of music, 1965




more to come.....

marfa, and the west texas landscape in american cinema

images from the coen brother's no country for old men, 2007
cinematography by roger deakins

new series of posts on marfa's influence on american cinema
found here

blurred layers of sound

classic drone (number 1):

colin andrew sheffield, first thus, elevator bath, 2005

first thus: the first edition published in the present form. often used to denote a book that was published previously by a different publisher.

i'm not sure how i ever let this one escape me the past couple of years. i've always enjoyed colin's previous projects, which are also available on his own fine label, elevator bath.

colin sheffield's first thus (a term referencing a first edition book in its present form), is breathtaking, to put it simply - - -
first thus begins beautifully with a faint, stretched melody evolving into warm, blurred layers of sounds that subtly thicken, ebb and wash over each other.
somehow, amidst ghostly whirrs, there maintains a calmness to the work like delicately dispersed thunder dissolving and quietly billowing into the atmosphere. the cd gracefully returns to an evocative slowed melody, reminiscent of distant drifting voices in a motet...
it's one of the most delicately beautiful things I've heard.

*** come closer (excerpt)

our house, like a solo performance, proudly resounds amongst the confusion and clamor of the disproportionate piers of the capital

melnikov and his wife next to their future house in moscow, late 1920's
from architecture of konstantin melnikov: 1920's-1930's, toto, 2002