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They've found the first thirty minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's first credited film (he was the writer, editor, AD) in an archive in New Zealand. Also discovered there were a film by an early female director and a fragment of a lost 1914 Keystone Kops short.
...and the complete works of Colin McKenzie.
...and the complete works of Colin McKenzie.
Hah! That was my first thought.
I'm watching "Home Movies" and I just recognized Albinoni's Adagio in one of the movies. I know they're referencing some classic scene but all I'm coming up with is Rollerball. What's the other movie that uses Adagio for melodramatic effect?
The most famous use of it in film is probably for the last scene of Gallipoli: [link]
Whereas the Barber = Platoon.
Thanks, guys. It must be Gallipoli I'm thinking of. Don't want to watch that again.
It's the one movie that makes me regret being unable to get past the Crazy to re-watch. The rest of Gibson's career I can ignore without a twinge of regret.
Pics on fb from Hunger Games filming! [link]
The Year of Living Dangerously is pretty awesome though. I have a vivid memory of a speech given by Linda Hunt, when he/she waxes poetic about a Richard Strauss song -- one of the Four Last Songs, I think. Although, it's been something like 15 years since I last watched that film, and I don't know if it'd hold up.
Peter Weir movies were one of my gateways into classical music when I knew next to nothing about it. The Beethoven in Picnic at Hanging Rock -- shiver-inducing stuff. Gallipoli also had that gorgeous duet from The Pearl Fishers.
Weir hasn't really done much recently. I wonder why? Master and Commander was his last great film and that was years ago.