Comments on: Sandor Krasna’s Photostream

By: John Fitzgerald

John Fitzgerald — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:36:15 +0000

That’s actually a brilliant idea! Though maybe have two versions: one without the voice tracks, and one that includes them. Certain sequences in his films — I am thinking particularly here of the dance sequence in Le Fond de L’Air est Rouge, which meditates on Chinese communism if I recall, or the transfixing kamikaze sequence in Sans Soleil — include voice tracks that almost seem inextricable from the music and have the lyrical quality of succinct tone poems in themselves. This is probably too much, but sometimes I have turned on Sans Soleil in the background while I am doing other things (permissible, I think, since I know it almost verbatim) just to listen to the cadences of the voiceover commentary — not even the words, per se, and I have done this with both the French and English versions — but the distinctive cadences, the rapid flow of Marker’s thoughts, which always seem to have , like a Bach cantata, a perfect terminus.

By: blindlibrarian

blindlibrarian — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:56:02 +0000

Nice one – totally agree. It is highly unlikely. As MySpace is of course popular with bands, your comment got me to thinking (not always a good sign) – wouldn’t it be nice to hear Marker’s soundtracks, stripped of image and voice? On a CD, bien sûr, not chez MySpace. He is undervalued as a composer, IMO.

By: John Fitzgerald

John Fitzgerald — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:10:34 +0000

I love this man and I just pray that he doesn’t have a “myspace” page as well…