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CHRONOS is not your typical nature film--no magnified bugs and metamorphosizing caterpillars. Like 1983's Koyaanisqatsi, this 44-minute movie plays with your mind, with your sense of time and space. Using time-lapse photography, surreal images and an eerie soundtrack, producer/photographer Ron Fricke has created a new cinematic experience that beats 3-D and Sense-around...
...movie looks remarkable contemporary throughout, and it is somewhat eerie to remember that the soundtrack comes from Los Lobos, voted Band of the Year by the once-progressive Rolling Stone magazine in the mid-'80s. When the Stray Cats' Brian Setzer does his Eddie Chocrane impersonation, and Marshall Crenshaw does his Buddy Holly stand-in bit, our generation's obseesion with the Eisenhower era is cast into vivid relief...
...Buddha's free-form style is notoriously difficult to back up, and is best suited to a low key bass accompaniment. But this backing band's overblown sound could have been straight out of Blues Brothers soundtrack, with lead guitar from Spinal Tap. Perhaps the most spontaneous moment came when the backing guitarist announced that the videos would be on sale after the show, and the Buddha put on his black spaceman glasses to rousing applause...
...very nicely indeed--like most Harvard house common rooms, it looks like an upper-class living room. The period music is nice, but the production could use some more of it, it uses thee same songs at each tedious scene change. Perhaps Pulido should pull out the rest of soundtrack to Radio Days...
...minute show, which will run at the planetarium until September 7, is accompanied by a soundtrack of Phil Collins, Howard Jones and Joe Jackson, and a narration by Channel 5 newscasters...