{"id":15684,"date":"2023-05-31T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15684"},"modified":"2023-05-26T23:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T03:39:46","slug":"hotel-x-plays-city-symphonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15684","title":{"rendered":"Hotel X plays City Symphonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went out to see three short &#8220;city symphony&#8221; docs with live music from Hotel X, part of the James River Film Fest.  Joris Ivens&#8217; <em>Rain<\/em> was pretty chill and rainy, the music wandering about aimlessly except for the guy with the rainstick who knew exactly what to do.  <em>Manhatta<\/em> (1921) a sharper movie, while the music had too much melodica.  Things really cooked both musically and cinematically with Jean Vigo&#8217;s <em>\u00c0 propos de Nice<\/em>, then we stayed for a post-movie song with guest guitarist Gary Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about <em>Manhatta<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11263\">before<\/a>.  Was thinking this time that if I lived there\/then, I&#8217;d like to open a haberdashery, or invent punk rock.  <em>Rain\/Regen<\/em> is the story of a rainfall in the city.  Ivens catches some nice ripples and reflections in puddles, the downside being that the movie consists excessively of puddle shots.  <em>Nice<\/em> seemed minor when watching all of Vigo&#8217;s work at once <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/405\">some years ago<\/a>, but in this program it really shines &#8211; it&#8217;s quicker and more clever and more interested in people than buildings and landscapes.  I love how many shots end as soon as the subject notices they&#8217;re being filmed (or being watched, anyway).  <em>Nice<\/em> gives equal credit to camera\/editor Boris Kaufman, who&#8217;d go on to shoot famous 1950&#8217;s\/60&#8217;s films such as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9814\">12 Angry Men<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went out to see three short &#8220;city symphony&#8221; docs with live music from Hotel X, part of the James River Film Fest. Joris Ivens&#8217; Rain was pretty chill and rainy, the music wandering about aimlessly except for the guy with the rainstick who knew exactly what to do. Manhatta (1921) a sharper movie, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,71,366,2258,21,64],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-jean-vigo","tag-joris-ivens","tag-live-music","tag-shorts","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15714,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions\/15714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}