ph: Craig McDean
Friday, August 14, 2009
Indeterminacy 86
Morris Graves introduced Xenia and me to a miniature
island in Puget Sound at Deception Pass.
To get there we traveled from Seattle about
seventy-five miles north and west to Anacortes
Island, then south to the Pass, where
we parked. We walked along a rocky beach
and then across a sandy stretch that was passable
only at low tide to another island,
continuing through some luxuriant woods up a hill
where now and then we had views of the
surrounding waters and distant islands,
until finally we came to a small footbridge that
led to our destination — an island
no larger than, say, a modest home.
This island was carpeted with flowers
and was so situated that all of Deception
Pass was visible from it, just as
though we were in the best seats of an
intimate theatre. While we were
lying there on that bed of flowers,
some other people came across the footbridge.
One of them said to another,
“You come all this way and then when
you get here there’s nothing to see.”
- John Cage
The Hearse (1980)
A young woman decides to stay the summer in the house her aunt left her when she died, to try and recoup from a bad divorce, but she doesn't realize that the house is haunted.
But the whole town knows...Not really bad, but it's not really scary and the acting is generally quite stilted. The hearse itself is quite ridiculous and rather superfluous concerning the plot.
101 (1989)
Depeche Mode prepares for the 101st and final concert of its massive world tour at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California, while a group of fans who won a contest travel to the concert through the United States on a bus.
Fans of the band will likely be thrilled, but otherwise this documentary is standard stuff.
Krabat (2008)
A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
This adaptation of one of the most popular Otfried Preußler children's novels is quite disappointing for fans of the book. Despite all effort the makers have taken strange liberties with the plot and cut most of the black magic and therefore hardly achieve the intensity and suspense we readers so much enjoyed.
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