Glóin the Dark

Hoping to see it shortly.

You've probably already gathered that Enys Men is a very unusual film - not at all surprising that it isn't popular with general audiences. It has a non-narrative style comparable to the most abstract or surrealist films of, say, Nicolas Roeg or Alain Resnais.

Me.

Maybe my criterion is the one that’s out of sync, but I tend to discount things like festival screenings since they often happen a long time before very many people have a chance to see the film.

You mean the ones I mentioned? I think the latter two had festival screenings in 2022, but no proper release (to my knowledge…).

To hell with Barbenheimer. Bottomheimer is the double-bill of the year. The Blue Caftan and Enys Men are good too.

That was the joke!

I also haven’t seen it and have only myself to thank.

Here's to hoping it'll be better than 1992.

Just What Do You Think You Are Doing, Dave? is a great film.

There Will Be Blood > Oil

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang’s pretty good.

I hate the whole "love is an artefact of a higher dimension that we can't consciously perceive" stuff. It undermines the film fatally for me.

Unfortunately there wasn't anything as unintentionally hilarious as an astronaut having to explain to his pilot that the universe has three spatial dimensions.

It’s not three hours of talking about nuclear physics; there are about thirty seconds where they talk about black holes.

Did you see it at TIFF?

Crawford Seeger Music for Small Orchestra.

I don’t think Zimmer or Williams are known by the general public.

Why no (re-)score for this one?

Better yet, they should check out the BFI restoration of Napoleon...

I will do it. Who’s Al?

Atom-Man and the WoMD

Yeah, but it's the "quantum world which it [relativity] revealed" phrase which baffled me (if that is indeed what he said). Isn't it the case that, far from revealing the quantum world, relativity has yet to be reconciled with it? Perhaps the reference is to a role played by special relativity (which would line up with the "forty years" claim) in the discovery or explanation of early quantum phenomena.

I thought the score was used pretty well (not overdone, and contributed effectively to the film's momentum) while, at the same time, being rather dull in its own right. In particular, the quantum ideas deserve a more harmonically and rhythmically complex accompaniment. There was an interesting passage involving a discretely and rapidly changing metre, but I only noticed it a few times. I don't recall a well-attended cinema ever being as chillingly silent as this one was during the quiet moment. There was an early scene in which I thought Oppenheimer said something along the lines of "Einstein published his theory of relativity forty years ago, but couldn't accept the quantum world which it revealed". Did I mishear?