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Holko

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  1. And of course it's only a small portion of the lower back corner of the outer sleeve. What I do dislike is when they don't have a slip like this that helps them hold the shape, so they just flop all around - like the Deluxe Across the Stars or the 3 disc remaster of the White Album, that latter one developed a light crease down the middle of the spine.
  2. This is the worst I've come across and it looks worse on this picture than it is.
  3. I like that digipaks allow for more sprawling and creative artwork. I have the TFA and RLJ digipaks and I'll get TRoS in this version too. Not completely on topic but I LOVE the packaging of the LotR Extended DVDs, too.
  4. Shouldn't A.I. be marked Sold Out instead of Out of Print?
  5. Pócspetri (1983) A wonderfully disturbing and upsetting 3 hour documentary. The titular village in the very Northeast of the country was an unassuming, unremarkable place until 1948, when the local priest heated up the population against the socialisation of schools, and on a June evening, when they went to protest against it, the nonviolent mob turned into an incomprehensible mess, a policeman was killed and telephone lines were soon cut so no news can get out. The prosecution was swift and cruel: the priest was sentenced to death (later modified to prison for life) for inciting the people, another man for killing the policeman after taking his gun away (he was hanged on the day of the sentencing), multiple other people (the cable cutters) for years in prison. The village gained notoriety country-wide as cop killers, the socialisation of land and schools proceeded with greater force. The film does start with a recording of the sentence to start you off, but afterward it's nothing but director Judit Ember in the village in 1982, talking to people, getting them to remember what really happened. None of it is scripted or really directed, it's all the informal testimonies of these honest, rural, real people - feeling a need to tell the tuth even if they may be reprosecuted for it. It features no narration, crutches for the viewer or a greater truth, just these pieces of memories from which you can slowly piece together the events (the bonus 1998 talk with the director helps a lot, too), and decades of repressed trauma coming back up. The cop died out of a complete accident, most probably had a faulty gun which he slammed on the ground to make noise, then it went off and shot him through the head. The heads of state saw this as a great opportunity to push socialisation and anti-religiousness, so the soon arriving State Defense Force beat the entire village (causing many to die, some to be crippled for life, all to be traumatised and somewhat socially stigmatised) to get false confessions, signatures from witnesses of made up charges, and most importantly a scapegoat who they can declare mudrerer and cruelly ceremoniously execute to make an example out of him in one of the first grand show trials. The "People's Republic" sacrificed a villageful of its mostly completely innocent people. The film was banned until the democratic transformation in 1989, and the director fought and pushed the villagers she grew to know and whose trust she gained to fight for a retrial - which eventually happened in multiple rounds and everyone who got sentenced in the past got retroactively acquitted. The executed "Murderer", who, as it turns out, took the blame so none of his brothers had to be hurt anymore, got reburied in the village 2 years ago. I'm very glad this 3 hour mammoth comes on 2 discs, I didn't have it in me to witness it all at once, it was too powerful seeing all those broken people bringing up their dark past. I'm certainly glad I saw it. I actually find it not dissimilar to the 20 years older 20 Hours (fictional, acted book adaptation), which is a film about a journalist travelling to a village, interviewing people, trying to piece together the history and family feuds from many conflicting and nonchronological accounts.
  6. So, finally ordered this score. I don't have nearly the same connection tk it as to the first one but I know it'll grow on me very quickly. The opening Somewhere Im My Memory and Star of Betlehem are new takes, right? Are they revised, rearranged, different?
  7. So, this does not take up one of the slots for the two scores LLL worked on and that made it through this Sony Music catastrophe. Therefore, still 2 Sony Music scores coming and either could be Hook.
  8. The Jaws 2015 is especially remarkable because, because of the 2008 fire, it reportedly uses the exact same digital scan that was used for the Decca, I think. Is that the same case with Inferno or does it come from a better element?
  9. And another alright episode. Very Seven Samurai, like I guessed from the tracklist.
  10. Nah, whatever release Thor heard first for any given score has perfectly fine sound. It's also coincidentally always the absolute perfect presentation and listening experience!
  11. And it's pretty good! Love what it does with some established motifs, the new one is not Jawas level but not bad. Is it just me making myself think it because if the title or does Spirit of the Woods have hints of Mononoke?
  12. Me too! The leaked sessions are very much damaged.
  13. Sometime in 2005 there was a change so now the musicians who played on scores post-change get more money from sells and reissues and stuff, but the reality is that this buffs up licensing fees so high that these small labels could never realistically afford them so nobody gets any money. Lawyers are weird.
  14. This score is probably even harder to rip properly than average, it's mixed low as hell, usually buried completely.
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