It might be slightly out of left field, but the film that has drawn my attention to the sound the most over the past few years is Dr Kermode's best film of 2011- We Need To Talk About Kevin. I was about to dither about a list of Russell's including Tommy and Mahler then realized Altered States is the daddy in terms of your question, though you couldn't go far wrong with much of Ken's catalogue. In a slightly similar vein, that is communication pared to the bare minimum with natural sound, and striking visuals, Nic Roeg's Walkabout.įrom the natural to the thoroughly un- Tetsuo: The Iron Man, not a film I ever warmed to, but undoubtedly has a soundtrack to match its weird body horror nightmare visuals.Īltered States Ken Russell's visuals a vocabulary of hallucination, religion, lust, taboo and the ultimate, with John Corrigliano's amazing discordant soundtrack which resolves into one of the most tender love themes in film. Stunning cinematography and the sparseness of natural sound, the wind, water and whinnying. The Black Stallion springs to mind with its long wordless section of boy and horse stranded, magical expression of non verbal communication between species. I selfishly hope you'll repeat the Blackmail silent with N Brand score at a future New Forest Film Festival.
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