Fauré, piano quartet no. 1 in C minor, Op. 15. This is a traversal CD, so you can see that I'm now up to F, having made it all the way through Elgar, Ellington and Dvorak recently. I have only two pieces of music by Fauré in my collection; this and a recording of his famous requiem. Both are quite restrained pieces; emotional and heart-felt without being over-the-top melodramas.
Timecode, directed by Mike Figgis, with a cast including Holly Hunter and Kyle MacLachlan. I saw this last Friday night, and thought it was technically successful but otherwise quite undistinguished. The big selling point of this film is that it was filmed with four cameras, and the audience sees the output of all of these cameras at once on the screen. There are no cuts on any of the cameras, so they just keep rolling. The only directorial editing after the filming was to alter the sound levels to focus the audience's attention on particular views.
The plot and characters in the film are both quite uninteresting and unsympathetic. The story is set in a Hollywood studio, and apart from some successful send-ups of the self-absorbed nature of the business (including a hilarious film auteur/rapper duo), there's really nothing very engaging about the film.
The IMDb page has some good long user comments. The Man who viewed too much dismisses the film in a brief, amusing paragraph.
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