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Reviews
True Stories (1986)
A Lesson on Not Taking Things Too Seriously
I liked this movie so much I bought the screen play. It is funny, hip and a great commentary on American culture - a little dated now, it's still worth watching.
David Byrne wrote this screen played inspired by small town papers in little West Texas towns. It tracks the lives of colorful characters over a week or so in a small w. Texas town celebrating it's 200th anniversary. Stars a bunch of wonderful actors before they were famous including John Goodman, Spalding Gray and Swoozy Kurtz, all played to a sound track of the best of Talking Heads music from the 80s.
Especially fun is the voo-doo love doctor that helps John Gooman's character find true love.
A good evening of fun!
Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie (2004)
Fabulous - Innovative - Amazing Tale
I found this movie completing inspiring. The director did a magnificent job of blending visual metaphors for sound throughout.
This is a documentary about the only woman percussionist who happens to have a 90 percent hearing loss. She uses her body to sense the slightest movement in sound waves and creates amazing rhythms, sounds and melodies.
Don't expect a quick start, but hang in there, this is rich, rich film, full of wisdom about the senses, sound, music and life. Definitely not for someone interested in the usual musical documentary or superficial treatment of a topic.
Unknown White Male (2005)
Fascinating Movie - Thumbs Up
One of the most interesting movies I've seen in ages. Not the usual over-dramatized Hollywood fare, this film moves like nature with a pace that is not contrived.
I am a psychologist and from that perspective I found it to be truly amazing. The story is of a young man who loses his episodic memory. These cases are rare, and what this means is that he loses the meaning of things as learned through experience. In fact, our perspectives on the world are self-constructed as we grow and experience the world. In this case the main character has lost that kind of memory and therefore people, places and things lack any kind of meaning - it's the most complete kind of loss I can imagine.
At first he is terrified, as one would be, but as he reconstructs his life, you find yourself a little envious of his appreciation of the most ordinary things, something that is available to us only when we can deconstruct the meaning we have created for something. There is an innocence and wonder that is not ignorant or naive, rather it is pure and without baggage.
It would be scary to have this experience, but a great opportunity as well.