Word: eldritch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These characters were not new with Lucas, of course; they spanned epic literature from Ulysses and King Arthur to the Lord of the Rings and Gormenghast trilogies. But Star Wars gave a high-tech polish to the rustic hardware, a kick to the old eldritch machinery. Alas, a decade later, everything new in Lucas' films seems old again. There is a shroud of inevitability, of why-bother, about Willow's chase through the forest (done better in Return of the Jedi), the impromptu ride down a mountain on a warrior's shield (done better in The Living Daylights...
...wizard like Art Tatum was astounded and flummoxed by Fess's style. This record, first released in 1975, has now been reissued on CD. The disc, with the good professor's piano remixed to stand way out in front of the band, is a perfect introduction to Longhair's eldritch dexterity. It is also as good a working definition of funk as you will ever find. The professor died in 1980, but there is a whole generation of peerless piano players, like Huey ("Piano") Smith, Allen Toussaint and Mac ("Dr. John") Rebennack, forever in his debt...
...many a horror movie touted by the hip critical fringe, it falls just short of delivering on its artistic promises. Director Stuart Gordon has fun trying to slice it both ways, though. Fleshing out a story by Horror Aesthete H.P. Lovecraft, Gordon finds florid visual correlatives for Lovecraft's eldritch prose, then adds a heavy dose of '80s psychosexuality. One messy kiss from the late Dr. Pretorious (Ted Sorel), and a cool blond psychiatrist (Barbara Crampton) gets tarted up in dominatrix leather to revive Nerdy Genius Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) by any means at hand. Heady stuff...
...Rimers of Eldritch...
...Rimers of Eldritch...