Rainer Werner Fassbinder had only been making feature films for four years when he tackled the enormous miniseries version of World on a Wire. Filmed in two parts totaling over three and a half...
A kind of low budget combination of Jules Dassin’s The Naked City and William Wyler’s Detective Story, Arnold Laven’s Vice Squad offers an entertaining West Coast twist to the police work shown...
The Phantom of the Opera gets a great showcase on Blu-ray with this performance at the Royal Albert Hall last October, in honor of its 25th anniversary. Like last year’s Blu-ray of Les...
After scoring as an international sensation and winning six 2011 Emmy Awards, Downton Abbey became last season’s most buzzed about new show (curiously, the first season won no major prizes in...
Winning the Best Narrative Feature prize at the SXSW Film Festival and being called “the next Woody Allen” must be heady stuff indeed for young filmmaker Lena Dunham. In Tiny Furniture, she...
Roseanne Cash, "The List" (really like it) and John Mayer, "Where the Light Is, John Mayer Live in Los Angeles", blu ray. Haven't heard it all the way thru, yet.
Like most Steely Dan and Fagen albums you have to admire the sound and complexity of the music.
But I find his albums, along with the later Steely Dan records, slightly boring.
Tarkus: Eruption / Manticore / Stones of Years / Iconolast /Mass / Manticore ... (Tarkus) (ELP).
From about 14:30 to 15:10, and again around 15:25 to 15:54-ish, it really sounds as though Pink Floyd stepped in for a session. I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the guitar work of both bands unless I knew the styles intimately, or maybe if I were a guitarist.
Next: The Barbarian (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer) (ELP).