http://benjiemesser.com benjiemesser@gmail.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:58:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://benjiemesser.com/2007/09/28/movie-appreciation-rashomon/ http://benjiemesser.com/2007/09/28/movie-appreciation-rashomon/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:56:00 +0000 benjie http://benjiemesser.com/?p=6 Watched Kurosawa’s Rashomon for the first time a few nights ago. A fascinating and cool movie in many ways. The music is by Fumio Hayasaka. Sarah suggested that it was very Tchaikovsky, and it reminded me a lot of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf- interesting to remember how close Russia is to Japan. It’s orchestral fantasy music with tons of featured woodwinds- much closer to “classical music” than fantasy music is these days. He must have written a solid 30 minutes of music, too, with very little repetition. Clearly recorded in the 50′s- lots of bassoons squawking like shawms.

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