- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Exempt
- Studio: Sanctuary
- DVD Release Date: 4 Dec 2006
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000KN9G5W
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 44,266 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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This Film Works,
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This review is from: Craig Armstrong - Piano Works: the Film [DVD] (DVD)
Is it fair to suggest that only fans of Craig Armstrong's music will buy or rent this disc?
Probably, so it is unlikely to disappoint such a committed audience. Indeed, committed has be the word to describe those fans if they already had the CD of Piano Works for it is a stripped down, bare and intense Mr Armstrong without the studio production pyrotechnics and awesome orchestrations of a Moulin Rouge soundtrack. I have been a fan of Craig Armstrong's music for longer than I knew who he was for it was only after a friend suggested I try his first solo album - The Space Between Us - that I realised I had be loving his work on movies without knowing who he was. I now have all the CDs and they are very firm favourites, not just recent fads, but in there on my personal All-Time Best Albums - Ever. So yes, I'm a committed fan. I wanted to see this DVD because I was curious. Curious not just to see him, but to see what visuals had been put to what is very image-suggestive music. Well, it is to me. One of the reasons I love his music is that it allows me to see things in my mind, suggests moods and emotions. Maybe that is why he is such a good soundtrack composer - he adds imagery rather than just accompanying what's on the screen. Anyway, what is on the screen in this film is an almost empty film studio with only a few lights, recording bits and pieces, Mr Armstrong and a beautiful piano. The camera moves slowly and remorselessly around as he plays about 15 tracks, some familiar from other CDs, some new, some long, some as short as a few seconds. Cut in with this studio footage are scenes of Paris; buildings, people, traffic, parks, skies. There is no voices, no explanation, little that could be called audience engagement in the conventional sense. Only once - in a still as part of a montage -does he look into the lens. Does this work? Maybe. If you like Koyaanisqatsi you'll probably like this. If you like Moulin Rouge (the movie) you probably won't. I wonder if, given that the music is so image inspiring, putting images to it is a futile exercise. Ultimately I have to say that it is not. I watched in one sitting, memorised and then inspired to write this. Granted I had the perfect conditions - a quiet, empty house, big TV and 5.1 surround sound and, as with his CDs, the DVD helped my busy brain relax then focus, focus on my thoughts not external pressures and priorities. I was transported, moved. That has got to worth an hour of anyone's time, has it not.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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film+piano+craig armstrong= BEAUTY,
By David Salgado Freijedo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Craig Armstrong - Piano Works: the Film [DVD] (DVD)
Beautiful dvd con beautiful music and images.
Very relaxing, very craig armstrong and .....I LOVE IT!!!! If you like Craig's music you'll will love it, if you don't know craig's music, it's a great dvd to start to love it. |
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