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Brad Haven
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Posts: 300
From: fremantle, West Australia
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 02-24-2003 01:34 AM
Is alphaville being screened with this live score anywhere else?
ALPHAVILLE by Jean Luc Godard (1965) featuring live sound by SCANNER (UK)
Innovative London-based soundscaper and ambient electronicist Scanner performs a live, improvised sampled and remixed score to Jean-Luc Godard's mid-60s, pulp sci-fi, modernist classic Alphaville.
"A dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction in which tough gumshoe Lemmy Caution turns inter-galactic agent to re-enact the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in conquering Alpha 60Ö Godardís theme is alienation in a technological society, but his shotgun marriage between the poetry of legend and the irreverence of strip cartoons takes the film into entirely idiosyncratic areas." - Tom Milne, Time Out.
A cult classic and a film that pushed the very medium itself beyond its limits, Alphaville has intrigued me since I was a student. The unforgettable dirty grinding vocalisations of the computer voice haunt electronic music today and the fusing of ëfilm noirí and science fiction inspired a generation of film makers.
Alphaville is a place where emotion is forbidden and poetry is forgotten, ruled by logic, a super computer. With its abstract, political and intellectual space-chase across the glass and metal landscape of futuristic Paris, we are caught within a film that dissolves boundaries between fiction and documentary, between actors and the characters they play, a situation which prevails in musical trends, with the divide between what is ërealí and ënot realí within musicÖ
Alphaville is a still a radical film that transforms the everyday into something baffling and intriguing. Everything may be familiar but nothing is recognisable.
- Robin Rimbaud
FRI APRIL 4 at CINEMA PARADISO (M) ONE SHOW ONLY (west australia)
I haven't actually seen this film yet, but it sounds very interesting, i'm going to get my ticket early so i dont miss out!
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Brad Haven
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Posts: 300
From: fremantle, West Australia
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posted 04-04-2003 11:07 AM
I just got home from the screening. I was sitting in the audience waiting with my friend for the show to start, we were trying to work out what equipment he had when we noticed what appeared to be a DVD player , i looked back and saw a video projector in the port . The show starts with the DVD image (1.85:1) sitting about one third down below the masking (they obviously didn't check before starting) with the subtitles cut off (fixed after a couple of min's) , the image looked stretched, was this shot 1.85:1 or full frame? The light was poor and SCANNERS work light was glowing on the screen , keystone was also quite bad, apart from that the image was great .
SCANNERS score was quite interesting and blended with the film quite well, sometimes a little too well. The audio off the dvd was awful and played too loud, it was distorting! Scanners score sounded very good though, he did a four channel mix, he only used the rear channels on a few occasions with great effect!
THE FILM, i found the first third hard to engage in, but i soon got into it. I enjoyed the humour, the set/art design and photography, by the end of the film i was enjoying it, even though i felt a little confused on walking out.
Overall the night wasn't great, just interesting!
What i dont understand is, why hold the event in a cinema if your going to use DVD and use your own sound system?? i felt cheated!!
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