8 1/2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Review

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8 1/2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Review*81/2" is Fellni's masterpiece as a film director, and with "La Strada," "La Dolce Vita," "Juliet of the Spirits" and "Amarcord," one the finest scores Rota composed for Fellini during his 30-year collaboration (ended only by the composer's death) with the director. I've enjoyed this recording since RCA issued in the U.S. in 1963 and also have the earlier stereo CD version produced by CAM in 1991. The selections are the same here as on the earlier issues. Regrettably, some major cues are missing. La Saraghina's dance, for instance, is heard not from the famed beach sequence, but only in a snippet reprised in the even more famous harem scene. Sadder, the nostalgic underscore, principally for guitar, to Guido's rememberance of one magic night from his boyhood and the wordless vocalise sung over the film's final credits aren't here either. Still, Rota's collage (including everything from music for circus band to some wittily employed selections from Rossini, Tchiakovsky and Wagner) remains potent, amusing and a complete delight.8 1/2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Overview

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The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 2 (2007) Review

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The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 2 (2007) ReviewKenneth Anger, Volume Two gathers together Kenneth Anger's work during his most influential period. "Scorpio Rising" is the standout, a homoerotic (daring by the standards of the day)semi-documentary (play the commentary) of gay bikers in Coney Island which through use of montage and then current pop songs, some sacreligious elements (a dated religious film is spliced in) and film footage of Hollywood movies (Marlon Brando in the "Wild One", James Dean)creates an avant masterwork, underground before the genre became tedious. Influential on John Waters Gus Van Sant but surprisingly an admitted influence on Martin Scorcese and many other mainstream film makers (the use of the song "Blue Velvet" in an out of context fashion may have been lifted by a certain film maker) and the use of pop songs in an ironic context was groundbreaking. The other films are less important ("Kustom Kar Kommandos" is a film fragment never completed, "Invocation of My Demon Brother" is dated (Mick Jagger unsuccesfully trying out the Moog, soundtrack, the appearence of Anton Levay), "Rabbit's Moon" is a shortened version of the far better version available on Volume I (which had a far more appropriate soundtrack) and "Lucifer Rising" has its moments and nice imagery but no more (the new film on Aleister Crowley "The Man We Want to Hang" is an interesting bonus but no surprise). So for overall content I'd give this 4 stars but "Scorpio Rising", plus the remastering of the films and soundtracks and the commentary take this up one full star and make this a neccessary purchase for all interested in film history.The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 2 (2007) OverviewCinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous HOLLYWOOD BABYLON books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture.A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger's work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with the power of a spell or incantation.Covering the second half of Anger's career, from his legendary SCORPIO RISING to his breathtaking phantasmagoria LUCIFER RISING, Fantoma is very proud to complete the cycle with this long-awaited final volume of films by this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick, painstakingly restored and presented on DVD for the first time anywhere in the world.Contains the films:Scorpio Rising (1964)Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)Rabbit's Moon (1979 version)Lucifer Rising (1981)

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