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Looks like this milestone was not yet mentioned - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest A score at it's best as it had to fit many stiles and moods. BTW the description of the video is wrong, it is the closing sequence when Will Sampson ("Chief Bromden") escapes the asylum.

I have read the script and will pass. The biggest problem to me that the film claims a drama that is simply not there, Why? Because the main character has a choice throughout the plot but this is swept under the rug. There is no terminal illness that forces Charlie to reconcile with his...

Only 1kohm mic input impedance? If this is not a typo, 1k are useless! It makes the input act like a highpass with phantom-driven mics as they need to use decoupling capacitors to keep phantom power from the signal. Those can't be big. With a standard 1µF smd cap, the corner frequency would be...

Single ended (like 90% of all devices in home audio), simple (no filters to mess around and that one cannot tell from each other anyway), great price, 5V input (so a very good power supply could better the results). Perfect! Does it automatically switch the source or does this has to be done...

If you can be happy with not knowing, how things work, go ahead. But your avatar alludes to an era commonly called "Enlightenment".

What is more fun: To watch the clock boringly ticking or to disassemble it? Enjoy a good musician with or without knowing the instrument he/she plays? Also I can assure you, Press Screenings are not at all different from ordinary screenings: They all laugh and cry at the same moments. In fact...

Legend goes the special effects team used it while screening FX-Footage to Kubrick and he took it as a temp track for editing. Still Alex North was hired to write a score. Another legend: Herbert von Karajan got outraged because Decca only permitted to use "Also Sparch Zarathustra" and "The Blue...

I would say both. I only watched Lux Æterna. Lars von Triers films I know better, from his early beginnings when he was very stylized up to "free form". The only one who comes into my mind who broke the rule was the late Godard with his essays. I think the introduction of the following book is...

I experienced both, getting broke because a producer did not pay my bills. Very common in the "biz". Search for "Three Act Structure". No Film or documentary I comes into my mind that broke the rule. A very good example is "Memento". Though the story is told backwards it follows the three act...

Unfortunately, I fear that your behaviour on a small scale is very likely to be the same as your behaviour on a large scale - that of ignorance, sorry to say. That is why I am wasting my efforts on you. The linked article shows that John Ford was contradictory, but certainly not mendacious, as...

I have asked you several times if you can justify your views. But you mock me. Here's a little John Ford tutoring for you, which is also interesting for you as a Spaniard: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-03-tm-5876-story.html

What is more important for you: the form or the content?

Looks like you are not able or willing to substantiate your views - as you yourself noted, as the originator of this thread. Also, it is inappropriate to call me a prince here. Obviously it doesn't occur to you that this is about reflection and analysis. Something to ponder: Your example is one...

And what gives you the sincerity to believe to be on equal footing with me? Can you explain what gives this scene a sonic signature? Why an Irish rebel song, written in 1916, was miraculously transferred into an 1879 timeframe?

Are you kidding? Where is the specialty? As "The Sons of the Pioneers" were famous, he used them in three of his movies, so? Nothing profound here. No subtext, nothing. So: Here comes a musical scene without music: With some "error" in sound design: When Jack Elam pulls the wires off the...

There is nothing modern about it - it is a documentary. The bill for the music rights must have been huge, we´re talking about $5000 per minute just for the cinema release. In my own documentary I planned to use four seconds of a famous song. The composer wanted to give it to me for free, but...

I have very fond memories when I commuted between Berlin and L.A., from 1998 to 2000 while doing editing work there, working in the Westchester and later Santa Monica areas. I hope to get back to L.A. in 2024 for a documentary film. I still listen to KCRW online, especially LeRoy Downs "Just...

No problem. I am doing films, not consuming them. Doing a "good" film always means to analyze, no matter the genre. One forming occasion - already 25 years ago - was working with a director who started as a critic and film scholar. After a week of editing, she took the rough cut home and changed...

It is not a matter of taste, but a matter of craftsmanship. The style should follow the core of a story. With filmmakers like Tarr, Tarkovsky, or Malick, the style is nourished by the metaphysical core of the narrative. A Malick relates images, off-screen voices, and music to one another...

To be honest, I have problems with self-referential arthouse cinema like that of Ryusuke Hamaguchi. As an antithesis to the hectic blockbuster cinema or plastic soaps, every shot is overlong and gives itself loaded with meaning. But it only does so because the viewer goes to the cinema expecting...