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The Great Silence: Mute Melody
Director: Sergio Corbucci Writers: Mario Amendola, Bruno Corbucci, Sergio Corbucci, Vittoriano Petrilli Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli Original title: Il...
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Psychotically Spliced Sounds: Ichi the Killer
Ichi the Killer At a recent seminar on sound design held at the ÉCU (European Independent Film Festival) in Paris, mixer and recordist Nikola Chapelle talked about the tendency of American films to...
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Suspended in Wind and Water: Bruno Dumont’s Hors Satan
Hors Satan Early on in the latest film by former philosophy teacher Bruno Dumont, Alexandra Lematre’s character (identified only as ‘elle’) takes an in-ear headphone from the pocket of her hoodie and...
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Darkness Audible: Sub-bass, tape decay and Lynchian noise
Illustration by Lisa Claire Magee To mark the release of David Lynch’s first full-length solo album, Crazy Clown Time, we are making available as a PDF an article on David Lynch’s soundtracks published...
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Monsters from the Id – The Music of Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet With the placing of a small silver pellet into what looks like a small lava lamp, a softly modulating drone strikes up. A high-pitched swoop joins, introducing the opening riff of a...
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The High Pitch of Strangeness: Ikarie XB-1
Ikarie XB-1 Deep in space, a derelict rocket from the year 1987 – centuries in the past – explodes into splinters of radioactive dust, destroyed by its own nuclear weapons. The pulsing electronic noise...
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The Weightless Drift of the Claustrophobic Soul: Solaris
Solaris There is little new, if anything, to say about Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunting science fiction masterpiece. As deep, mesmerising and involving as the ocean from which the concept of Stanislaw Lem’s...
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