The audience is extremely excited for Jeff Mills to take to the stage. Recommended, although if some loud Manc bloke who thinks he's Russell Brand comes and sits behind you, move. Even if I did have to cope with this idiot behind us, whooping and shouting "C'mon Jeff" every time he heard a bass drum. All those slightly discordant strings and fuzzy pads. Who else was making 3 hour sci-fi movies in the 1920s? When you look at the both the scale and the aesthetic precision of this movie you can see how much film noir actually downscaled his vision. It's easy to buy into a narrative where he hones his style in arty German cinema then hits his stride in Hollywood reinventing the crime movie. ![]() It's an incredible film: technically complex, lyrical, but making some interesting early stabs about the scientific reality of space travel amongst the fantastic elements.ĭespite styling myself as something of a Lang buff, it made me realise how poorly I understand his work. It was great, but the selling point of this was Mills actually performing live. ![]() ![]() 28th April 2016Ībout 10 or so years ago I saw Mills introduce a screening, with his soundtrack, of Fritz Lang's best-known movie Metropolis. Cinemix for Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon.
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