| darkthirty ( @ 2009-01-08 21:02:00 |
| Current music: | Drudkh - Autumn Aura |
| Entry tags: | film, music |
Anatomy of a Murder, Drudkh
The acting in Anatomy of a Murder is incredible - the whole cast, but in particular George C. Scott (who is slightly terrifying in this role), Ben Gazzara (utterly convincing), Eve Arden and of course James Stewart. I found the film longish, a little to indulgent with the camera, while still appreciating the camera work of Leavitt and the direction of Preminger. There are 20 minutes of film I'd have chopped away - they become a kind of fog behind which the characters get a bit murky themselves - in particular, Frederick Manion - the fine edge Gazzara has drawn, neither allowing us to sympathize nor to dismiss - this is one dynamic axis (the murder) of the film that certainly didn't need that padding. The other axis is of course the character of Laura Manion, the rape, and the the final axis between Biegler and Dancer, the law. I give it an 8 in admiration for the stellar acting.
Now, I'm no Black Metal fan, but the Ukrainian band Drudkh joins something like the almost new agey ambient releases of Ildjarn, or Paysage d'Hiver's somewhat blacker ambience, with those bands' more straight black metal releases, into a unified sound more similiar to, say, The Angelic Process (who come from a more gothic direction) than to other "atmospheric black metal" bands, like The Summoning (who I admit I sort of like), I suppose, or Negura Bunget. Also, they aren't as politically wacky (the wiki article on them is pretty clear) as most black metal bands seem to be. I recommend them if you're looking for something a little different.