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09 May 2007
Heart-stoppingly good.
This is the story of the fourth plane to be hi-jacked by the al-Qaeda on September 11th 2001, the drama is told with a great deal of skill in a documentary style by the writer and director Paul Greengrass.
This is the only flight that was hi-jacked that day that did not reach its target because the passengers chose to fight back instead of being told with gung-ho gusto; the director has shown a great deal of restraint and with the use of hand-held cameras for the action of the revolt by the passengers the sense urgency and panic is conveyed to the audience for heart in the mouth climax with have you on the edge of your seat.
This is a fitting tribute to the brave souls who lost their lives that and a stunning piece of modern cinema, essential viewing.
23 November 2011
The best western ever made?..
3 of 3 found this helpful Serigo Leone epic picture “Once upon a Time in the West”, is presented in a new meticulously restored version for its Blu-ray release which looks and sounds stunning along with the restored version which is now a “Unrated” cut the disc also has the “Theatrical version” as well which is still rated PG-13, along with similar special features that the region 2 double DVD released in 1999 that version of the film running time was 159 minutes, this time the restored version has a running time of 166 minutes which is closer to the Italian version which had a running time of 175 minutes.
This disc is region-free the signal type is MPEG4 in full 1080p resolution which shows the features beautiful range colours and the now the greater range of blacks, the actors sun-baked skin now look even more stubbly and sweaty, the sound which is now up-graded to 5.1 DTS Master Audio this jumps out of the speakers, the first gun fight at the railway station which has very little dialogue, is now even more impressive as the sound effects sound like they have been on steroids the gunfire now rattles across your living room, the dripping water and squeaking water wheel create the atmosphere as never before bringing the viewer even closer to the action.
This Blu-ray also has Dolby mono in English as well as dubbed French and Spanish; there are subs in English for the hard of hearing, subtitles in French, Spanish and Portuguese with commentary contributions from Directors John Carpenter, John Milius and Alex Cox and Film Historians Sir Christopher Frayling and Dr Sheldon Hall as well as cast and crew.
The Special features include “An Opera of Violence” “The Wages of Sin” “Something to do with Death” “Rail-road: Revolutionising the West” “Locations now and then” Production gallery and the Theatrical trailer in HD.
If you love Westerns this for me is the yardstick to measure by along with the “Wild Bunch” from Sam Peckinpah from the year after, now give us Leone last Western “A Fistful of Dynamite” or “Duck you Sucker” to the same standard please...
24 April 2007
Scottish Americana.
This album begins with "Walks with Me" (3.07) Marc Pilley plays an acoustic guitar and just before he sings the opening line "There's nothin' you can do 'bout your past, his soft vocal delivery which is full of pain and despair but at the same time it's also up-lifting as well, as if to say it's bad but it will get better.
"I've seen some Things" (3.40) starts with Pilley on acoustic guitar this track finds Marc singing in a defiant manner the opening line "I'm a river they won't swim, a storm they've never seen, I'm a night sky. I'm pretty hard to like" on the word "hard" the drums start playing a 4/4 rhythm with the bass filling in the space between the acoustic guitar with backing vocals singing AAAAAAAAAA at the back of the lines of the song.
"I wait for you" (5.20) is the love song of the album, all unrequited and played in the minor on the acoustic guitar to give a sense of melancholy and the vocals are delivered with a great deal of yearning, with a majestic sounding acoustic guitar intro that sets the tone for the piece with the line "turning your ring I wait for you, no more to say I wait for you" the acoustic guitar is playing all the way through this and as the second line begins an electric guitar can be heard playing the same minor chords but with a soft phase effect "you need to explain, I wait for you, down on your luck, I wait for you, sleeping by your side at night somehow, I need you some how" on the second repeat a harmonizing chorus is heard repeating the line back, the line "I'm still waiting" is repeated until the fade out with more emotion on every repeat.
"Letter" (3.15) this track is different to the previous songs as it begins with mellotron, the mellotron adds a sense of space as it plays between the guitar, that gives the opening line of "It's hard forgetting where you've been, when all around is too damm clean" a perfect place to start, with the rhythm being conveyed by the use of bass and gut strung guitar which gives a deeper tone to the guitar and punches out lines in the song such as, "there's a place on the ground" and the sound of a tri-angle along with stroked cymbals which holds all the parts together.
The song "Dime (4.39) has a quietly delivered vocal intro along with the sound of acoustic guitar before the delivered line of "And it's true it's all been said, took our lives out with a bed, as Marc delivers his vocals the bass is used to punch out words and emphasise lines to great effect along with the sound of the drums and the backing vocals, this appears to be a song about the way modern life has broken down and how couples don't talk and don't even show each other affection because everyday life has them so exhausted from trying to make money to live.
"Motion picture Scarecrow" (5.28) this track Pilley uses the sound of his foot stomping which is then followed by a dobro guitar before the lines "Gave up my girl, my foot in my house, for them downtown bars, gave up my clothes, suits and my hats, for a serious dose, then I gave up this coast, and things I love most, just to try to sing, some parts of the weather, some parts of the other", all the while the sound of a harmonium is just barely audible to give the song a feeling of grandeur with the line "does anybody know" the bass can heard giving the asked question a sense of urgency , this autobiographical song holds the album together with Marc repeating the line "does anybody know" towards the fade out adding