Word: koyaanisqatsi
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LUCAS I'm going to go off in the direction that I was really interested in going off in when I was in film school--films like Koyaanisqatsi, films that are a little more abstract in nature. It's vaguely in the land of music videos, I guess, but I don't even know how to describe them. I'm going to deal with themes that have always interested me and are vaguely esoteric in nature. But I'm going to try to make them dramatic. I'm going to try to make them emotional. How they're gonna turn...
...Belle, which has already had 40 performances in Europe and will tour 35 U.S. cities next year, is not Glass's first foray into film. He has composed memorable music for Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi and contributed an eerie, if more conventional, score for the 1992 Hollywood horror picture Candyman...
...Friday at 1:40, 5:40 and 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 13. Rebecca at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. and Portrait of Jennie at 5:50 and 9:50 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 14. A Brief History of Time at4:15 and 7:30 p.m. and Koyaanisqatsi at 5:50 and9:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Goodfellas at 7 andRanging Bull at 4:30 and 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday...
...subject is familiar from Chinatown: Los Angeles has its water piped in from afar; the archetypal modern city is built on the theft of age-old resources. Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (1983) had the same doomsday message dressed in high-tech style. That movie was serious fun, but O'Neill's is bolder, more disciplined. Every shot has a lure and a meaning; the film's shapely silhouette is easy to trace. Gorgeous and zippy, Water and Power is an intoxicant without a hangover...
...film's altered states are enhanced by a soundtrack that accompanies and complements the wordless action--just what Philip Glass's music did for Koyaanisqatsi. Composer Michael Stearns presents a new age, Tangerine Dream/Andreas Vollenweider sound, adding exotic drums and bells that complete the foreign aura...