Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting used to the idea of a potentially winning year. How riled up will Harvard students get for the Yale game knowing that it represents something besides a way to salvage an otherwise poor season? How will we be able to become absorbed in the curious antics of the Band when there's actually something worth watching on the field...
...when Mandela was welcomed with a bagpipe band, it seemed clear this was no social call. He held a private chat with Muammar Gadhafi and presented the Colonel with the Order of Good Hope, South Africa's most prestigious medal...
...real reason to see this film is the band in concert; it's there that Jarmusch's best film work emerges. Alternating between up close-and-personal stage shots and seemingly unrelated imagery (traffic on a tree-lined highway, fans in Ireland waiting for a concert), he never tries to outshine the band's performance but rather to complement them. Occasionally he is guilty of some boring visuals: some of the images accompanying the songs feel like rejected film from a lost R.E.M. video...
However, the blaring intensity of the final two songs, "Tonight's the Night" and "Like a Hurricane," in which the band achieves a level of aural glory that most bands can only dream of, more than make up for the infrequent lapses. In both these songs, music and imagery achieve a brilliant synergy: Young's poetic lyrics and thundering guitar are superbly matched by such shots as Jarmusch's cut between the hands of some audience members and the band jamming it up under amazing lighting. You don't have to be a fan of Neil Young & Crazy Horse...
...make matters worse, the orchestra--at least on opening night--sounds about as professional as a high school band. Squeaky horns and missed notes grate on the ear, and the entire orchestra seems disjointed and badly synchronized: throughout the ballet, one can hear different sections starting and stopping where the transitions should have been smooth. Though easily overlooked, a good pit orchestra is absolutely essential to a good ballet, because the music truly is half the performance. A dancer draws energy from the music; when it's off, so is the magic...