Mirroring Tarkovsky

Er - why the inverted commas? He was indeed married twice and married his second wife (who survived him) in the year that he became divorced from his first.


Who's "Chaicoffski"? It's a pity that a movie director of his stature with so singular a grasp of music had little interest in the music of his own century (if indeed that was true); I have no idea what he thought about cows, but his apparent (and apparently unexplained) dislike of Shostakovich, though obviously a pity, is understgandab le at least from the standpoint tht not everyone likes that composer's music!

Why? How so? And why in any case should its possible origin (which I cannot at present be bothered to look up) be of particular consequence? I think that all of us here know what it means without needing to be told, actually. "Of the street"? So what? Aren't most cinemas, multiplexes et al in streets? And as for "of commerce", when has the making, showing and marketing of movies been devoid of the necessity of commercial input? Even the cheapest of low-budget movies has required finance to enable its existence and its showing and has inevitably therefore been dependent upon some degree of commerciality.

I've neither seen "movie" spelt "movy" nor the word "americanism" without an initial capital letter until now; why did you do either of these? Nor, for that matter, have I ever encountered any word that emitted an odour; how do words do that? Why might the word movie "shock" whom - and how might it do so? Wouldn't you agree that "exhibited in a cinematograph hall" is a somewhat clumsy way of saying "shown in a cinema" (which has half the tally of syllables) and at the same time ignores the fact that movies are not always seen in cinemas these days anyway? Lastly (for the time being, at least), why draw specific attention to what you believe to be an "Amercianism" in an implied pejorative manner when America has so rich a history of movie making? (it's far from alone in that, of course, but such a legacy can nevertheless hardly be denied or even undermined with credibility)...

Member kc is right - the opening of the St. John Passion is superlative. The sharpness of all its recurring dissonance only renders it the more beautiful does it not. It was though of course written for performance in a religious establishment, and what Bach might have thought about its performance in the country-side with visions of edgy unclassifiable females on a screen we wonder. Surely there whatever the film is trying to say appears hardly definite. Had Mr. Tarcoffsci wanted to be vague the music of de Bussy would I would have thought have been more fitting.

I think that Sydney's repeated misspellings of those of whom he does not entirely approve are idiosyncratic, but comical! You made me think of the context in which the St John Passion was originally performed. A couple of years ago, I visited Leipzig, and sat in St Nicholas Church imagining the scene. You, too?

Linn Records - Dunedin Consort - J.S. Bach: John Passion, Reconstruction of Bach's Passion Liturgy

I suspect that where the music and the film make sense is in their separate and combined ability to mirror our intense inner lives!