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Brief Encounter. It's a middle-aged romance, and aside from the swelling Rachmaninoff on the soundtrack, it's a beauty. David Lean directed. Thursday, 10:30 p.m. CHANNEL...
...good scenes (there are plenty) come straight out of Crumb, while the Bakshi-formed transitions are usually banal. (Bakshi can't cut to save his life within scenes either.) The voices are fine, the music jaunty, and at one point--when Billie Holiday is heard singing "Yesterdays"--the soundtrack gets beautiful. The color is gloriously trashy, but Bakshi lingers on his settings at ridiculous length...
...uncontrollable yearning. Kadar has exploited her dazzling beauty--and it is extraordinary--to project an indefinable combination of passivity and centripetal power. Reflecting the nuances and unsettling suggestions of the narrative, the camerawork moves from clear undisturbed landscapes to introspective shots of the mist-covered Danube. The symphonic soundtrack is occasionally over-dramatic, but mostly, it serves to reinforce Kadar's carefully composed ambiguities...
...album and went on tour, and the Allman Brothers said they too would continue to tour, although they would try to replace Duane (as if it were possible). Reprise posthumously released two Jimi Hendrix albums, The Cry of Love (representing his last studio work) and Rainbow Bridge, the soundtrack from a yet-to-be-released movie...
...Motels is the first movie by the well-known and somewhat demented Los Angeles rock star and composer Frank Zappa. It is also a record album that purports to be the soundtrack to the film, but only sometimes intersects with the movie in a rather disordered way. Taken together, they are either Zappa's view of modern America or else just another scheme he has contrived to waste the time and money of America's youth. In either case, the film has alienated me from my friends and given me a minor case of dandruff...