Enough! Too long! I’ve just deleted all the drafts of posts between now and February that I’ve never finished and published, and I’m starting again, again…

To kick things back off, then, a special screening of David Lynch’s The Straight Story at the Ritzy in Brixton. It was a rescore, done live by Big Chill friends and Sheffield duo Animat, and follows their hugely well received rescore of French animation Belleville Rendezvous. The Straight Story rescore included (apparently – I’d not seen the film before) a lot of the original score by Angelo Badalamenti, who has written the scores for most of David Lynch’s films, I think, mixed in with their own electronica compositions, plus tracks from the dj vaults. Given that it was a very scenic film, with lots of both close-ups of people’s faces, and panoramic shots of huge vistas, I think it was a great one to rescore, and sat well with Animat’s music. My only problems were the quality of the film – it looked like it was a dvd, which doesn’t look all that great on a cinema screen – and that the soundtrack occasionally got in the way of the dialogue. Other than that, enchanting stuff.