Monday, June 9, 2008

univers du western - red river

howard hawks - red river, 1948


john wayne - thomas dunson




montgomery clift - matthew garth

walter brennan - 'groot' nadine

john ireland - cherry valance


noah beery jr. - buster mcgee



hank worden - simms reeves

chief yowlachie - quo

harry carey jr. - dan latimer

harry carey - mr. melville








(rain)

(century trees)


cinematography - russell harlan

(other films shot by russell harlan)
- to kill a mockingbird, 1962 (d. robert mulligan)
- day of the outlaw, 1959 (d. andré de toth)
- rio bravo, 1959 (d. howard hawks)
- witness for the prosecution, 1957 (d. billy wilder)
- lust for life, 1956 (d. vincente minnelli)

music - dimitri tiomkin
(includes the song red river valley - aka cowboy love song)
editing - christian nyby

(number 1 of 500 for a planned series detailing westerns)

Friday, June 6, 2008

birds, vinyl, drone and graceful degradations









- alio die & saffron wood - corteggiando le messi - hic sunt leones, 2006
verging of many types of music: classical, (world & new age), drone and especially the non-music (his trademark water sounds, birds and nature sounds), with elements just barely at the threshold of visibility

- asher: intervals - the land of, 2008
the three asher related releases on this list are all sublime, quiet, ghostly, melodic & "music quite a bit in the background, like satie and his elevator music. i like the way the tunes sound from my kitchen, traversing 2 rooms. the little melodies are pretty how they come and go in the fuzz" m swiezynski

- asher + ubeboet - cell memory - wind measure recordings, 2008

- william barklow - voices of the loon - north american loon fund, 1980
the best of the bird releases i have listed here

- christopher bissonnette - in between words - kranky, 2008
"using orchestral sound sources as well as recording his own sounds to manipulate and process, bissonnette has crafted a symphony of six movements, with melodies as ghostly apparitions that fade in and out of view"

- donald j. borror - songs of eastern birds - dover publications, 1970
academic faculties of zoology and entomology, the ohio state university
genre: non-music

- a broken consort - three songs - sustain release, 2008
edition 1 of 1, the sounds of invisible birds overhead, black landscapes, and broken consorts

- taylor deupree - northern - 12k, 2008
re-release. as the deputy managing director of all international monetary business for this blog states: "these are some real jazzy tunes"

- morton feldman - the viola in my life - ecm, 2008

- fennesz/jeck/matthews - amoroso - touch, 2008
release is an homage to arvo pärt

- joe grimm - brain cloud - spekk, 2008
the first track is very beautiful

- philip jeck: sand - touch, 2008

- ali akbar khan - the classical music of ali akbar khan - prestige, 1964
- ali akbar khan - the soul of indian music - prestige, 1965

- laboratory of ornithology at cornell university: an anthology of over 200 american bird songs - olympic records corporation, 1980
found these bird recordings on closetcurios2.blogspot.com

- lau nau - nukkuu - fonal, 2008

- stephan mathieu - radioland - die schachtel, 2008
"exclusively based on real-time processed shortwave radio signals, radioland takes the listener on a carpet ride across endless, majestic shimmering landscapes" the best of his discs yet

- willie nelson - country willie - united artists records, 1965

- paavoharju: laulu laakson kukista - fonal, 2008
finnish bird drone/folk, a couple of nice tracks, and some fine melodies

- vidna obmana & asmus tietchens: motives for recycling - soleilmoon, 1999

- mathieu ruhlmann + celer - mesoscaphe - spekk, 2008
"dedicated to the 1969 voyage of the ben franklin, a naturally propelled submarine, sometimes less memorably referred to as the grumman/piccard px-15, designed for the exploration of the gulf stream's currents"

- sangeet trio (vishwa mohan bhatt, tarun bhattacharya, renu mojumdar): inde du nord, sangeet trio en concert - ocora radio france, 1995
recorded in théâtre de la ville, paris, found all these acora discs on differentwaters.blogspot.com, thank you kindly

- colin andrew sheffield: first thus - elevator bath, 2005
some stunning transforming of prerecorded music *
other elevator bath recordings including:
rick reed - dark skies at noon
ilya monosov - architecture on air and other works
josh ronsen + john grzinich + rick reed - frequency curtain

- frank sinatra - romantic songs from the early years - columbia
- frank sinatra - a swingin' affair! - capital, 1956
- frank sinatra - sinatra sings of love and other things - capital

- jerry and norma stillwell: bird songs of dooryard, field and forest - ficker recording, 1961

- svarte greiner - til seters - a room forever, 2008
2 tracks from erik skodvin, surely very heavy, and sublime, with an lp image not unlike the lush drones, (but on paper too glossy)

- tape - milieu plus - häpna, 2003/2008
- tape - opera plus - häpna, 2003/2008
- tape - luminarium - häpna, 2008

- john tavener, arvo pärt, henryk mikołaj górecki - tavener, pärt, górecki - emi, 1996

- giancarlo toniutti, andrew chalk - tahta tarla - pans'urlo panseri, 1993
acquired on a recommendation from john grzinich, and it is visually the most beautiful record i have, and some really stunning sounds as well

- v.a. - graceful degradation: variations - sourdine, 2008
with tracks by steinbrüchel, kenneth kirschner, heribert friedl, john hudak, steve roden, jason kahn and ubeboet. beautiful tracks and packaging with a subtle vellum abstraction, first release on asher's label

images by jon wozencraft

(this list benefits from my new record player, near 3 years without one)

Friday, May 30, 2008

invisible birds (forthcoming)

eugène atget

josef sudek

henry fox talbot

richard long

as if you were the voice that moves up and down the rungs of the world, between earth and sky, never beyond, always in the infinite globe, free but inside it, over there, close at hand, where the silver branches fork, awaiting nothing, fleeing nothing, traveller whom a second's joy, for no reason at all, steals from the journey's movement and leaves perched, at a halt...

from landscapes with absent figures translated by mark treharne

Thursday, May 29, 2008

second addendum to the essential cinema





- lindsay anderson: o lucky man!, 1973

- paul thomas anderson: there will be blood, 2007

- robert benton: the late show, 1977

- ingmar bergman: virgin spring, 1960

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

- mary ellen bute: rhythm in light, 1934

- nuri bilge ceylan: uzak (distant), 2002

- coen brothers: no country for old men, 2007

- joseph cornell: carousel animal opera, 1930
- joseph cornell: jack's dream, 1930
- joseph cornell: thimble theater, 1930

- david cronenberg: eastern promises, 2007

- george cukor: diner at eight, 1933
- george cukor: a star is born, 1954

- walt disney & david hand: bambi, 1942

- evelina domnitch & dmitry gelfand: camera lucida, 2006

- daryl duke: payday, 1973

- oskar fischinger: an optical poem, 1938

- john ford: drums along the mohawk, 1939

- milos forman: lásky jedné plavovlásky (loves of a blonde), 1965

- david gordon green: george washington, 2000

- edmund goulding: grand hotel, 1932

- ulu grosbard: straight time, 1978

- alexander hall: here comes mr. jordan, 1941

- howard hawks: the thing from another world, 1951

- werner herzog: the enigma of kaspar hauser, 1974

- norman jewison: in the heat of the night, 1967

- larry jordan: works

- abbos kiarostami: five dedicated to ozu, 2003

- *dimitri kirsanoff: rapt, 1934

- henry koster: no highway in the sky, 1951

- stanley kubrick: dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, 1964
- stanley kubrick: barry lyndon, 1975

- gregory la cava: my man godfrey, 1936
- gregory la cava: stage door, 1937

- albert lamorisse: le ballon rouge, 1956
- albert lamorisse: crin blanc: le cheval sauvage , 1953

- ang lee: brokeback mountain, 2005

- mike leigh: secrets & lies, 1996

- mike leigh: all or nothing, 2002

- david lynch: eraserhead, 1977
- david lynch: blue velvet, 1986 (not sure why i left these out of the original list)

- rouben mamoulian: queen christina, 1933

- man ray: le retour a la raison, 1923

- paul mazursky: harry and tonto, 1974

- oscar michaeax: body and soul, 1925

- vincente minelli: meet me in st. louis, 1944

- kenji mizoguchi: sansho the bailiff, 1954

- roy william neill: sherlock holmes in pursuit to algiers, 1945

- yuri norshteyn: hedgehog in the fog, 1975

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

- james parrot: the music box, 1932 (laurel & hardy move a piano)

- leighton pierce: mr person in the water, 2006

- nicolas ray: lusty men, 1952

- dick richards: rafferty and the gold dust twins, 1975

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

- richard sarafian: vanishing point, 1971

- martin scorsese: the last waltz, 1978

- vittorio de sica: la ciociara (two women), 1960

- don siegel: the shootist, 1976

- todd solondz: happiness, 1998

- ralph steiner: mechanical principles, 1930

- jános szász: woyzeck, 1994

- andrei tarkovsky: ivanovo detstvo (ivan's childhood), 1962

- andré de toth: crime wave, 1954

- jacques tourneur: canyon passage, 1946

- irwin winkler: guilty by suspicion, 1991

- william wyler: detective story, 1951

images from no country for old men
* have not seen

Monday, May 19, 2008

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.....