C. Lavender: music, sound design & film scoring. Programmer for Cathode Cinema & others.
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970
Had convinced myself I saw this when I was 19 and first getting into Giallo films, but I tended to focus on darker films in general then and it led to missing this (relatively tame) classic somehow.
Morricone score is perfect, although not the kinda score I'd want to listen to on it's own, it's glued to this film. Has anyone sampled the scene with the scientist dissecting the audio from the phone call?? Deep listening skills to (semi) solve a murder!! -
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The Shout 1978
Thank you to everyone who came out to my screening of this for Weird Wednesday at Alamo Drafthouse BK. Hope you appreciated the intro - love the rare endearing electronic musician character!!!
S/O to whomever whispered "omg that gear's so expensive..." during one of the studio scenes.
So great to hear this in a theater!!!
Everyone was DEAD QUIET at the end - the audience was stunned by.... THE SHOUTTTTTttttTTTTtttttttt!!! -
Repo Man 1984
Watched this on 35mm to celebrate the life of my recently departed actress mother who played a REPO WIFE in this!
I've seen it many times, but never on 35mm which was the perfect format for it.
My mom didn't talk about her acting days very much, but fwiw she said Alex Cox was a sweetheart to work with and that the Circle Jerks (aka the bar band) were incredibly annoying on set.
I tried to convince her to go…
