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Dorsky made a practice of observing the changes exhibited by himself and other audience members after films. As he "began to become more sensitive to these post-film experiences and the qualities in a film that might produce either health or ill health," Dorsky realized that this power arose from film's "ability to mirror and realign our metabolism."
An alchemy takes place when the form of a work "include[s] the expression of its own materiality," a transmutation that is evident in cave paintings, Egyptian sculpture, 12th-century French stained glass and stone engraving, and the music of Bach and Mozart. According to Dorsky, watching a film "has tremendous mystical implications; it can be, at its best, a way of approaching and manifesting the ineffable. This respect for the ineffable is an essential aspect of devotion." Cinema can achieve a "transcendental balance" in the successful union of "the internalized medieval and externalized Renaissance ways of seeing." The relationship between shots and cuts is also crucial to this balance. Dorsky sees a parallel between "our visual experience in daily life" and the intermittence of light and dark as film runs through a camera or projector at 24 frames per second. Though we do not experience the world as a "solid continuum," learning to accept the "poles of existence and nonexistence" ultimately "suffuses the 'solid' world with luminosity."
Devotional cinema captures the present moment (what Dorsky terms "nowness"), acknowledging the simultaneity of "absolute and relative time." Dorsky defines "devotion" as "the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation." Just as devotion increases in relation to our openness and "willingness to touch the depths of our own being," film can facilitate revelation when it "expresses itself in a manner intrinsic to its own true nature." Ideally the cinema may even "serve as a corrective mirror that realigns our psyches and opens us up to appreciation and humility." This slim but eloquent book will touch the hearts of readers who approach film as an art form, one which has rarely exhibited the fullness of its vast potential as the one medium which incorporates all other disciplines.
Coppola is calculated, deliberate, near-maniacal in his manipulation of our hearts and minds. He wants to enthrall us, to evoke addictive physiological response, his camera a sadistic arm plunging into our chests, squeezing our hearts and rattling our guts around, sparking nerve endings, commanding:
Once upon a time, when I taught college film seminars on the aesthetics, ethics, and phenomenology of violent cinema experience, Apocalypse Now made a prominent appearance. Again and again, I was struck by which scenes affected students the most.
As a trauma survivor who spent way too much time researching cinema violence, embodied empathy, and lived histories of violent conflict before being diagnosed with complex PTSD, sometimes my whole life feels like an attempt to understand what violence does to us. Whether experienced directly in our bodies or viewed on screens, what does violence activate, what does it shut down? What neural pathways does it form, reshape, fry? What does it teach us?
Unfortunately, the dynamic range of this 2LP set was shown to be somewhat limited. Someone compared its dynamic range to the Blu-Ray video. The Blu-Ray showed a far greater dynamic range and the music breathed much more life.
I was all set to place an order at Acoustic Sounds - but it completely disappeared from their web site before I was able to do so, and it is also not available at Elusive Disc, Music Direct, nor the Rhino store. Was it withdrawn?
=rbHappy SMS 2LP hunting! Log in or register to post comments Do We Have To Wait Another 40 Years For The Rest Of The Show? Submitted by estimatedprophet on Sat, 2023-08-26 20:30 8/28/1983; Compton Terrace; Tempe, AZ - may be the best show I ever saw - that-said, why not release The Whole Damn show? (that would add "Building On Fire", "Big Blue Plymouth" and "Houses In Motion" - "Houses" was one of the best songs of the show.
1984 and 1989 it was released with the Cities and Big Business titles on Japanese Laserdiscs. The analog track of the 1984 LD is superior compared to the 1989 that sounds digital to me. So, if you are one of the last freaks, who connect the preamp directly to the output pin of the analog signal LD chip output than this is the one to go for :)
The 1999 version is still my favorite. Something about the new version sounds a little off. Maybe I'm just not used to it yet, but I feel like Byrne's vocals are more prominent at the expense of some of the synths and the background vocalists.
mpb020479 is right about the new version. It is decidedly a DIFFERENT mix than the 1984 original/1999 Special New Edition versions. Example 1: "Psycho Killer" is clearly different, as it omits the 'I have a tape I want to play' intro and the Byrne 'stumble' sections. Example 2: "What A Day That Was" sounds less forward and 'hot' compared to the earlier versions.
Interesting points also re the BD and LD SMS options -- and me with my Laserdisc player currently boxed up somewhere in storage, and y'all are now having me contemplate whether I need to go find it and get it back in house and into my signal chain, hmm. . . Log in or register to post comments maybe Submitted by PeterPani on Mon, 2023-08-28 23:52 I guess, we all agree that vinyl reproduction can be beautiful, but there are physical borders to cartridge playback so that analog audio will not improve anymore at big steps. Another annoying topic is the endless search for a better cartridge (cost a lot of $$$). R2R got the advantage that the tonehead is cheap ($200) and does not need that costly exchange every several years. But again, there are limits (the alignment, imperfect tape, bias) to perfection and the media is expensive (at the moment I save my pennies for the Belafonte tape and the White Stripes tape...).
I wonder, why people in the audio industry do not try to improve on analog, looking for new carriers. Since there are no new ideas around - I (I am not an inventor) see only one possibility: I am pretty sure: with a higher carrier frequency than on old LD, using the 12" discs for 2-channel analog audio alone, I am pretty sure that the performance of R2R 15 ips would be surpassed easily. The best analog tracks of some old LD's, extracted directly from the analog chip to passive preamp, are hard to beat. I know, the signal is better FM, only. But better FM in a stable stream pleases the ears. And I can imagine, the usage of a higher carrier frequency should open the analog audio band up to 120 kHz on something like a pure analog 2-channel audio laserdisc.
Or maybe, high density magnetic data storage media could be used with a new type of tonehead?
But nothing new on the analog front since mid '70's (Laserdisc). Over 50 years no ideas for a new analog carrier?
That's pretty poor!
This has been measured at DR9. The blu ray,which contains all the songs, is at DR13. I don't understand why the vinyl would be compressed - we all know the cutting concessions that need to be made to have content that's always loud. Why not match the blu ray?
Ugh!!!
And I met Jerry Harrison and Bernie Worrell at the Coffee Trader 15 minutes after Milwaukee's 1st screening. I sat with a few of my very young friends for an hour hearing all about their experience while making the film, er the tour. He and Bernie were funny and super nice for talking with some kids in a cafe.
I am also somewhat partial to the Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods LP -- the 1988 Sire pressing, that is; I know there's a 2013 edition too, but I'm sticking with my original -- with "Rev It Up," "Man With a Gun," and "A Perfect Lie" amongst my fave tracks on it. Log in or register to post comments I had the Cassette of Casual Gods! Lol.. Submitted by Glotz on Wed, 2023-09-06 21:28 I got it free at a promo of his album at a record store then. Great album and really made me rethink Jerry Harrison as nothing less than a consummate musician and front man. Rev it up... indeed.
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So it was the summer of 1993 or 4 and I was awakening from a nudge of this black-haired, thin, rocker elf-like lady-friend. She was kicking me out post haste as she was having friends over at 10am on a Sunday morning. I thought who invites friends over this early, especially with a club owner??
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