Five Things Make a Post: Sleepy Wednesday Evening Edition

[scarlettina]

Music Recently, whilst downloading some music from iTunes, it occurred to me to download some music I remember with fondness from the '70s. (Yes, yes, I'm a child of the '70s and there was music I liked. So sue me.) One tune of which I had fond memories was Love's Theme by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra (with wicka-wacka guitar and

Comments

[willowgreen]

I'm just catching up on LJ after vacation, so this is my first news of Spanky's passing. I'm so sorry to hear about it.

Also, I totally agree that Cave of Forgotten Dreams was amazing. I can't even remember the last time I saw a new Herzog film. It was such a treat -- I love the way he always sprinkles funny little moments into his strange and mesmerizing subject matter.

Funny moments

[scarlettina]

In this one, he has one of his experts play "The Star-Spangled Banner" on a replica of an ancient bone flute to demonstrate that it uses a pentatonic scale like we still do. So odd.

The last Herzog film I was Encounters at the End of the World (which you can watch in its entirety at the link). Fascinating and beautiful.

And thank you for the condolences about Spanky.

[kistha]

Is it still running, and if so, where?

[scarlettina]

It's at the Regal Meridien in Seattle. To the best of my knowledge it will be there at least the rest of this week. Don't know if it's anywhere on the Eastside.

[bedii]

That film is getting some of the strangest receptions I've ever seen: recently I wandered into an online discussion that used it as an excuse for everyone to pile on and attack 3D in general because the 3D experience just left the cave hard to see, and since no camerapeople will probably ever be allowed in again Herzog had been totally irresponsible in wasting the opportunity... I was never more tempted to quote Domingo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[scarlettina]

The only two criticisms I'm willing to level at the film are about that odd epilogue and about one scene in the film where the 3D is a little flawed and adds some distortion around the two people in the main shot. But it's brief. And I didn't find the film detrimentally dark, as some 3D can be.

They say Herzog wasted an opportunity? I think he probably did the best he could with what he had given the space and time constraints put on him by the French Ministry of Culture and the scientific team that researches and curates the cave.

[shelly_rae]

Oh! I wanted to see the Herzog film. I didn't even know it was playing. Shoot.

A donation to PAWS is a lovely thing. I do like M&G--good guys.

Anon

[garyomaha]

"Love's Theme" is on my list of favorite instrumentals (and that list is long). (So sue me, those-who-hate-70s-music-just-because-it's-70s-music.) Yes to all the musical comments you said about it, especially the French horns.