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Road to nowhere youtube1/18/2024 ![]() Every moment of the movie felt that everyone involved was treating it like the most important film in the world, and that reads twice as big from the David v Goliath feat of its existence. But history brings things into light for a reason, and here, it is the sheer integrity of the filmmaking. So I have seen films like this that weren't given new life, or life at all. When you are involved in the film festival circuit, the true indies, they're often quite good, and not disposable as one assumes. I am reminded of Sidney Lumet saying a great filmmaker realizes that you only need one or two close-ups across an entire film, but they must be at the exact right moment. ![]() There is a fly on the wall quality that this is going on with or without a camera capturing it, high praise, yet the formalism comes through at key moments, across these perfect, tight compositions. I found the performances the sort of pleasure I get out of Mike Leigh films, or Italian films, everyone is memorable and the characters are lived-in. The naturalism is profound, and this hint of Herzog or Weir-esq poetry that seeps in the scenes that builds to the transcendent. From the inherent subversion of the existence of DIY filmmaking at all, the beauty is how the forms contrast. 116K Share 13M views 5 years ago You're watching the official music video for Talking Heads - 'Road to Nowhere' from the album 'Little Creatures' (1985) Directors: David Byrne and Stephen R. They are shoplifting the styles of the past attempting to consume it. Provided to YouTube by EpicRoad to Nowhere Ozzy OsbourneNo More Tears (Expanded Edition) 1991 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music EntertainmentReleased. The craft is razor sharp, in fact this is an aesthetic filmmakers today, even on budgets, are driving to emulate in their desperation for the authentic. ![]() To me, this is not a "microbudget film", it is simply film, and it is the work of a seasoned, natural filmmaker operating outside of capitalism, becoming an important bit of counter-culture.
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