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Post by tannis on Jul 14, 2008 3:32:41 GMT
KATE BUSH: A star in strange ways... KB: "I think that as a very young child, perhaps I aspired to becoming something like a great actress." The Tony Myatt interview (1985)gaffa.org/reaching/im85_tm.htmlThere can't be many men who would turn down the opportunity of rescuing Kate Bush from a desert island. however, Kate might just be a little reluctant to get back to civilisation. "Being stuck there could be an idyllic time," she says. "I've always enjoyed working alone, even as a kid, and I can collect all my thoughts together then. But the prospect of being there with my favorite films is exciting, because I love the cinema and rarely get the chance to visit it because of my work. So I'd go to town on my selection." KAGEMUSHA "Not a lot of people have heard of this one, but it's by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. I just happen to think that this is one of his best. It was a toss up between this and his Seven Samurai, which is a tremendously atmospheric picture. However, I think this one wins the day." Trailer: Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980)www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8s0ZWYSvdwPSYCHO "As there wouldn't be a shower within thousands of miles...or a motel...I'd feel quite safe having this along with me. Of course it scares me silly, and the fact that it's in black and white only adds to the terror, but Anthony Perkins is so marvellous in it. It's one of those films I can watch lots of times, even though I know the ending." Psycho trailer (Alfred Hitchcock)www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzAnE4zuYuATIME BANDITS "This is the kind of film that'll be around for years-like the Disney ones. When Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin of the Monty Python team got together on this they must have been inspired, because it appeals to kids and adults alike. The story is so original and seems to incorporate just about everything from pantomime, fairy tales, drama...the whole show." Trailer: Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, 1981)www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXIZktCzG-cDON'T LOOK NOW "Donald Sutherland I can always watch - he's got such a wry sense of humour. Ever since I saw him in M*A*S*H I became a fan. And yet in this film there's no humour at all. It's a real creepy and has a terrifying climax. But there's such a lot to be observed in the relationship between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie that you don't get tired of it." Don't look NOWwww.youtube.com/watch?v=IpOL_tLvi7wNIGHT OF THE DEMON "This is an oldie, if the fifties can be described as old. The Night of the Demon is one of the better horror films from that period, which really keeps you on the edge of your seat without frightening you out of it. It's about a secret ancient inscription of the rune symbols at Stonehenge. Whoever hold a certain piece of paper with them written on incites the wrath of the demons. Very exciting." Curse of the Demon (1957) 1 of 10www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzBO1tg9iYYCurse of the Demon (US Title). Night of the Demon (UK Title).BARRY LYNDON "Not too much to say about this film, except that I love the story and the whole atmosphere of the film. It's just a picture that moves me emotionally." Barry Lyndon - Movie trailer from Kubrick`s Filmwww.youtube.com/watch?v=M4aDIc4uCOcNOTORIOUS "Marvellous Hitchcock stuff. Really vintage and one of the classics with Ingred Bergman and Cary Grant. It's that build up of mystery that fascinates me." Alfred Hitchcock 's Notorious New Trailerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=bS1K_w4U4YgPINNOCHIO "This film just goes on forever; it's timeless. I saw it when I was a kid and I go to see it whenever it comes on the circuit. Magical! I love fairy stories anyway." Pinocchio Original 1940 Trailerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=LWKpQ9yLAT4TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD "I read the book, then saw the film, and I wasn't disappointed. It's the story that appeals most here. Just a marvellous film." TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD [EXTENDED TRAILER #1]www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfSVkDjnsnUTHE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK "Working this lot out, I've realized what contrasting tastes I've got in films. But here, I think that the sequel to Star Wars is better than its predecessor. There was always the risk that it would be some kind of anti-climax, but it goes beyond expectations." The Empire Strikes Back trailerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=GmfK1rwUhdkPopular Video, Kate's Desert Island films, March 1983gaffa.org/reaching/i83_didf.html
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Post by tannis on Jul 14, 2008 3:33:25 GMT
Our Kate is a bit of a film fan, it seems, and has always said that they have a major impact on her songwriting. Whether she's stated the movie as an influence outright, or you just want to speculate, I thought it would be fun to have a thread about this. Kate and Cinema www.atforumz.com/archive/index.php/pics/t-288198.html
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Post by tannis on Jul 14, 2008 3:34:13 GMT
THE KICK INSIDEWuthering Heights (1970) (TV) ... Wuthering Heights ...I: How did the interest in the Bronte subject come up? KB: "Well it was originally from a TV series years ago and I'd just caught the very end of it. And it was like really freaky, cause there's this hand coming through the window and whispering voices and I've always been into that sort of thing you know and it just hung around in my head. And the year before last I read the book and that was it, I had to write a song about it." "The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop", January 20, 1979gaffa.org/reaching/iv79_ss.htmlLIONHEARTCaberet (1972) ... Coffee Homeground ... ?The Magician of Lublin (1979) ... The MagicianThe Magician of Lublin (1979): For this film, Kate sang the theme song The Magician. The song was composed by Maurice Jarre with lyrics by Paul Webster, the music performed by London Symphony Orchestra. THE GAFFAWEB DICTIONARYgaffa.org/diction/index.htmlKate Bush - Magicianwww.youtube.com/watch?v=wo7CAhlnEmkNEVER FOR EVEROmnibus: Song of Summer (Russell, 1968) ... Delius (Song of Summer) ...KB: "Um, Delius was really introduced to me by Ken Russell, um, on television. Um, I think people have probably heard about, um Song of Summer that was shown--a beautiful piece of film, about Delius's later life." Paul Gambaccini Radio Programme, December 30, 1980gaffa.org/reaching/ir80_pg1.htmlLa Mariée était en noir [The Bride Wore Black] (1968) ... The Wedding List ...I: My favourite track on the album is The Wedding List. "Oh, really?" she says bubbling, the little kid who's been given a puppy for Christmas. KB: "That was based on a film, a Jeanne Moreau film I once saw on the telly, when the bride's husband was killed and she sought revenge for those responsible." She spends the next 15 minutes relating the plot of the film, ending in a breathless flourish. "It was an amazing film. Can't remember what it was called, though." [The film, Truffaud's tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, is called La Mariee etait en noir, or The Bride Wore Black.] Melody Maker, "Paranoia and Passion of the Kate Inside" (1980)gaffa.org/reaching/i80_mm.htmlThe Innocents (1961) ... The Infant Kiss ...KB: I don't know if anyone's seen a film called The Innocents, it initially inspired it. It's an old British film, a very haunting film about a governess who goes to stay and look after two children, a young boy and a young girl. And unknown to her, they're both possessed by the spirits that lived in the before, the gardener and a maid. And particulary the boy is in a very, very heavy possession state, he has a.. like a thirty two year old man inside him as a spirit. And the governess will go to give him a little goodnight and he suddenly gives her a very big passionate kiss. And the song is about the woman being incredibly torn, she doesn't what's happening because there's this really sweet little boy that she loves maternally and yet through his eyes there's coming this really wicked, lusty man. And so she can't work out what's happening, she thinks she's going mad when in fact there is this terribly evil force in such a young child that could never have this experience through his own age. And so she's just freaking out saying "my God, what's happening." Never For Ever Debut, Radio 1, Oct 11, 1980 gaffa.org/reaching/ir80_r1.htmlA Documentary on Nuclear Effects ... Breathing ...Do you actually read up and research for your songs, or is it information already in your head--especially Breathing? KB: "This really depends on the subject matter of the individual song; but in the case of Breathing, most of the information came from a documentary about a man who had been following up the negative results of nuclear products." Kate's KBC article, Issue 14 (Fall 1993), "Dear Friends"gaffa.org/garden/kate16.html
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Post by tannis on Jul 14, 2008 3:34:51 GMT
THE DREAMINGButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) ... There Goes A Tenner Forties B-movies: White Heat (1949) ... Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) ... I: Is this based on any kind of film? KB: "No. It's sort of all the films I've seen with robberies in, the crooks have always been incredibly in control and calm, and I always thought that if I ever did a robbery, I'd be really scared, you know, I'd be really worried. So I thought I'm sure that's a much more human point of view." ... I: What made you think about it? I mean, have you run into these East End types before? KB: "No, no. I think it was much more the thing of watching a lot of films, things like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, you know. There are lots of films where robberies take place and yet they glorify them, they always make the robbery something very heroic and fun, risky and dangerous, but for me it's something incredibly scary, something that has such a potential of going wrong that it's not worth the risk, and I don't think it's something that should be glorified at all. I think it's something that should be made very real, so that people realize it's not worth the effort--it's not something that's fun, it's something that's just not worth the effort. You'll end up in gaol for thirty years!" 1982, Picture Disk, The Dreaming Interview gaffa.org/reaching/im82_pd.htmlI: ...Bogart, Raft and Cagney on "There Goes A Tenner". Are they people you particularly admire or do you just like the strong images they create? KB: "They are people I like. For me, Cagney is one of the greatest actors that has ever been. I just couldn't believe his acting in White Heat. He's always played the boy who grew up in a hard time and in a way he was only ever bad because of the things that had influenced him. He comes across as a very human person who had the potential to do something great but was always misled. In that song the idea is that everyone's amateur robbers..." I: Like the old Ealing comedies? KB: "Yeah, that's right. So it's like maybe they get a bit cocky... I dunno, I've never done a robbery, but I think that in a situation like that you'd almost try to be like the person you admire so perhaps they'd be like Cagney and George Raft. They idea was nothing like deep - it was just handy! The real challenge of that song was to make it a story but also keep it like a Thirties tune." Melody Maker, "Dreamtime Is Over", Oct. 16, 1982 gaffa.org/reaching/i82_mm.htmlA Documentary on the Vietnam War ... Pull Out The Pin ...KB: "I saw this incredible documentary by this Australian cameraman who went on the front line in Vietnam, filming from the Vietnamese point of view, so it was very biased against the Americans. He said it really changed him, because until you live on their level like that, when it's complete survival, you don't know what it's about. He's never been the same since, because it's so devastating, people dying all the time. The way he portrayed the Vietnamese was as this really crafted, beautiful race. The Americans were these big, fat, pink, smelly things who the Vietnamese could smell coming for miles because of the tobacco and cologne. It was devastating, because you got the impression that the Americans were so heavy and awkward, and the Vietnamese were so beautiful and all getting wiped out. They wore a little silver Buddha on a chain around their neck and when they went into action they'd pop it into their mouth, so if they died they'd have Buddha on their lips. I wanted to write a song that could somehow convey the whole thing, so we set it in the jungle and had helicopters, crickets and little Balinese frogs." ZigZag, "Dream Time in the Bush", 1982gaffa.org/reaching/i82_zz.htmlDouble Indemnity (1944) ... Night of the Swallow ... ?A couple of the songs on The Dreaming seem to draw heavily from film noir. "Night of the Swallow", the female is straight out of the awesome Barbara Stanwyck mould of Double Indemnity. She's a domineering, passionate woman who not only doesn't want her lover to risk his life trafficking refuges because of the danger to him, but because she wants him. At the end he pleads - "Would you break even my wings/Just like a swallow/Let me, let me go..." Melody Maker, "Dreamtime Is Over", Oct. 16, 1982 gaffa.org/reaching/i82_mm.htmlAlien (1979) ... Get Out of My House ...KB: The Shining is the only book I've read that has frightened me. While reading it I swamped around in its snowy imagery and avoided visiting certain floors of the big, cold hotel, empty for the winter. As in Alien, the central characters are isolated, miles (or light years) away from anyone or anything, but there is something in the place with them. They're not sure what, but it isn't very nice. The setting for this song continues the theme--the house which is really a human being, has been shut up--locked and bolted, to stop any outside forces from entering. The person has been hurt and has decided to keep everybody out. They plant a "concierge" at the front door to stop any determined callers from passing, but the thing has got into the house upstairs. It's descending in the lift, and now it approaches the door of the room that you're hiding in. You're cornered, there's no way out, so you turn into a bird and fly away, but the thing changes shape, too. You change, it changes; you can't escape, so you turn around and face it, scare it away. Kate's KBC article, Issue 12 (Oct 1982), About The Dreaminggaffa.org/garden/kate14.htmlPinocchio (1940) ... Get Out of My House ... KB: "The whole thing of this wild, stupid, mad creature just turning around and going, you know, eeyore, eeyore... I don't know if you saw Pinoccio, but there's an incredibly heavy scene in there, where one of the little boys turns into a donkey -- a mule. And it's very heavy stuff... It's a good film." Love-Hounds: |>oug's famous Kate Interview, 1985gaffa.org/dreaming/doug_int.htmlScariest Scene In Film History EVER!!www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mypa-rmn5GEDisney's Pinocchio - "Donkey Transformation"Brazil (1985)Ary Barroso's famous 1939 song "Aquarela do Brasil" (English: "Watercolor of Brazil", often simply "Brazil") is the leitmotif of the movie, although other background music is also utilized. Michael Kamen, who scored the music for the film, originally recorded "Brazil" with vocals by Kate Bush. This recording was not included in the actual film or the original Brazil (1985) soundtrack release; however, it has been subsequently released on re-pressings of the soundtrack. Brazil - Kate Bush/Geoff Muldaurwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajt_jjtWY9I
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Post by tannis on Jul 14, 2008 3:35:25 GMT
HOUNDS OF LOVEThe 39 Steps (1935) ... Gone to Earth [/i](1950) ... Hounds of Love The Night/Curse of the Demon (1957) ... [/b][/color] KB: "I think that everyone is scarred of relationship on some level or other, but actually the song in many ways was inspired by an old English black and white movie called Night Of The Demon, which is just one of those great movies that managed to get through a whole phase of other movies that were incredibly corny and not effective, and has a real atmosphere about it." Good Rockin Tonight, Nov. 1985gaffa.org/reaching/iv85_ca3.htmlKB: Hounds of Love is the third single, and trying to follow the Cloudbusting video was extremely difficult. I still wanted to follow the approach of making "a short film", and this time we wanted to suggest a piece of "Hitchcock": a short thriller. Paddy inspired me into a 39 Steps theme, and for the two-three weeks over Christmas my life became this third video. It was particularly hard organising meetings over Christmas; everyone was busy partying. At one meeting someone turned up in fancy dress. The advantage was that I got a brilliant crew who were free to do the shoot because it was Christmas-time, generally a very quiet period. If you get to see the video, let us know if you spot Hitchcock's appearance? Kate's KBC article, Issue 19 (Spring 1987)gaffa.org/garden/kate21.htmlGone to Earth (Powell & Pressburger, 1950) and Hounds of Love (Bush, 1985)Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love - A Classic Album Under Review pt. 4/10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSCwnSQLVeQ 6:18-7:44...
"The track itself seems to be heavily influenced by the Michael Powell film, Gone to Earth (1950), a story of a young gypsy girl whose only real companion is this fox cub..."I found a fox Caught by dogs. He let me take him in my hands. His little heart, It beats so fast, And I'm ashamed of running away "They're after us, Foxy..."Powell and Pressburger's potboiler 'Gone to Earth', in its original form (not as revised and reordered under the helm of Reuben Mamoulian), is a powerful realisation in shimmering Technicolor of both Mary Webb's novel and the savage pull of the forces of nature. Hazel (Jennifer Jones, imported from Hollywood, as you would expect from Selznick's involvement in this film), is an innocent, an animal lover with a head full of fantasy, fairies, and spells. Her father (played beautifully by Esmond Knight), plays the harp while she sings in strange, ethereal tones. Enter the sacred and the profane in the forms of Cyril Cusack as the minister (understated as ever), and David Farrar as the lusty Squire (in his third appearance in P&P films, and in some ways the character is a close cousin to Black Narcissus's Mr Dean). Hazel is desired by them both, but in very different ways, and her naiveté and innocence may well prove to be her undoing. Against the backdrop of country fairs, fox hunts, flowers trodden into the mud, fairgrounds, parish councils, and disapproving parents (Sybil Thorndike, memorable as the parson's mother), this film proves to be a gem. There's a couple of nice roles for Hugh Griffith and George Cole as well. And Jones, despite a sometimes dodgy accent, always seemed to look half her age and inhabits the Shropshire hills perfectly as the ill-fated Hazel, in close company with her pet fox. In many ways. 'Gone to Earth' is as much a potboiler as any Catherine Cookson, but it has enough to keep you watching. www.imdb.com/title/tt0042513/usercommentsPsycho (1960) ... Mother Stands for Comfort ... ?KB: "As there wouldn't be a shower within thousands of miles...or a motel...I'd feel quite safe having this along with me. Of course it scares me silly, and the fact that it's in black and white only adds to the terror, but Anthony Perkins is so marvellous in it. It's one of those films I can watch lots of times, even though I know the ending." Popular Video, Kate's Desert Island films, March 1983gaffa.org/reaching/i83_didf.htmlTHE NINTH WAVEThe Cruel Sea (Frend, 1953) and And Dream Of Sheep (Bush, 1985)The Cruel Sea (1953) Part 13 of 17 www.youtube.com/watch?v=z95-JLugbUY 4:51-5:37...
How long have you got? ... Have you had your tea? ... That's fine, Jim! Just name the day and I'll dance at your wedding... Hello Elaine, darling! Haven't you got rid of that clot of a husband yet...Little light shining, Little light will guide them to me. My face is all lit up, My face is all lit up. If they find me racing white horses, They'll not take me for a buoy. Let me be weak, Let me sleep And dream of sheep.I: Alright. now, you seem to have a fascination with water. I noticed that a couple of your favorite movies, Don't Look Now and Cruel Sea, which are very much on a watery theme. So have you a fascination for water? KB: Yes, yes I do. I think that everyone does really. I think that Cruel Sea was one film that I particularly mentioned though as being a very influential force for this side. so, it would have to do something with water. 1985 Picture Disk, "Conversation Disc Series", abcd 012 www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/im85_pd2.html
I: Okay, then, why then all the ninth wave and water and ice. KB: I think it was an idea I probably got a few years ago of someone being in the water for the night, and hadn't really tried it until this album. It's hard to say where it came from. I can only pinpoint certain war films as imagery that would suggest it, things like The Cruel Sea, those kind of old war films, where the people were being cast into the water, having really been through kind of a heavy experience already. And the thing of actually launching from that, so that's the basis of the body in the water, but then the head travels off as the night goes on. 1985 Picture Disk Interview, CBAK 4011www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/im85_pd1.htmlThe Cruel Sea (1953) ... A Night to Remember (1958) ... The Ninth Wave ... ?KB: "I've had a calm life but I am fascinated by the negative aspects of terror. Isn't everyone? Horrible things fire my imagination. Without them there'd be no film industry. And tragic and scary things are disturbing and powerful. I do have a special fascination for films like Don't Look Now and The Cruel Sea -- watery films. I hope I'm not writing from a morbid point of view. I like positive endings. Humour is just as important as a means for relaxing." "What Kate Did Next", 1985gaffa.org/reaching/i85_what.htmlKB: "Yes. I think the imagery for the whole piece--a lot of it I think came from moving out of London, in that I was surrounded much more by elements than people and man-made things. The power of things like the wind in the trees, I mean. It sounds corny, but it's very earthy, and I think it does affect you. Also some war films that covered people coming off ships, out of planes, into the sea, in situations where they were alone and frightened, into a huge thing--the sea is just enormous and really so unknown, and very taken for granted. I don't think that many people consider that cruel side of the sea, and how...ultimate it is...And also the whole thing of almost...like sensory deprivation, where you've been in the water a while, you start losing all sense of where you are, who you are, whether you're upside down or whatever. And I just found the whole thing terribly fascinating--[coughs--laughter from audience] Although a very physical event, very much a mental event as well in that you are travelling in your head, even though your body is just floating in water." The Tony Myatt interview, Nov. 1985gaffa.org/reaching/im85_tm.htmlNosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) ... Hello Earth Chorus ...I: On the track Hello Earth, right? right? There's a choir in there. Now that again was an unusual thing to have... KB: "Yes, but it was totally inspired by a movie that I watched, and, um...I'd already been writing the concept--I suppose it had been in my head for a couple of months. And, uh...I watched this film called Nosferatu, directed by, um... Herzog. And it's beautiful! And there was this one piece of music that just haunted me, to the point where I just--I had to use it in the song. It was exactly what I wanted to say at this point in the music." The Tony Myatt interview, Nov. 1985gaffa.org/reaching/im85_tm.htmlDas Boot (1981) and Hello Earth...Das GWX www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50APQxDDYw&feature=related [Ignore the GWX subtitles.] 1:55... "Tiefer....noch tiefer! ... Die Bolzen! Sie platzen weg!""Tiefer, tiefer, irgendwo in der tiefe gibt es ein Licht"KaTe mentions that certain war films inspired The Ninth Wave suite, and that The Cruel Sea was a very influential force. The Ninth Wave suite is bursting with concepts, including the German expression at the end of 'Hello Earth'. So maybe KaTe took sonic inspiration from Das Boot to suggest a journey to the edge of the mind...
Das Boot (The Boat) is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Production of the film took two years (1979–1981). One of Petersen's goals was to guide the audience through "a journey to the edge of the mind" (the film's German tagline Eine Reise ans Ende des Verstandes), showing "what war is all about." Petersen heightened suspense by very rarely showing any external views of the submarine unless it is running on the surface and relying on sounds to convey action outside the boat, thus showing the audience only the claustrophobic interior the crew would see. THE WHOLE STORYPsycho (1960) ... The Whole Story (album title) ... ?DR. RICHMOND: "I got the whole story--but not from Norman. I got it--from his mother. Norman Bates no longer exists. He only half existed to begin with. And now, the other half has taken over--probably for all time." Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho - screenplaywww.paradiselost.org/psycho.htmlCastaway (1986)Castaway (1986), directed by Nicholas Roeg, starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe, based upon the autobiographical book Castaway by Lucy Irvine. A middle-aged man places an advertisement in a London paper for a woman to spend a year with him on a desert island. The soundtrack of the film features the song Be Kind To My Mistakes. After the song appeared on the film soundtrack, an altered and remixed version was released as a single b-side. THE GAFFAWEB DICTIONARYgaffa.org/diction/index.htmlKate Bush - Be Kind To My Mistakeswww.youtube.com/watch?v=zflFJY1-DyE
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Post by tannis on Jul 14, 2008 3:37:56 GMT
THE SENSUAL WORLDWargames (1983) ... Deeper Understanding ... ?She's Having a Baby (1988)She's Having a Baby (1988), written, produced, and directed by John Hughes, starring Kevin Bacon, for which Kate composed the song This Woman's Work. Other artists on the soundtrack included XTC, General Public, Kirsty MacColl, and Bryan Ferry. THE GAFFAWEB DICTIONARYgaffa.org/diction/index.htmlKate Bush-This Woman's Workwww.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1fqgg42vo"The Comic Strip Presents..." Les Dogs (1990) 8 March 1990 (Season 5, Episode 6)Kate Bush ... BrideDaniel Peacock ... Bridegroom Adrian Edmondson ... Bestman Miranda Richardson ... Bride's Mother Alexei Sayle ... Bride's Father The Comic Strip: A series of short comedic television films made by the team of Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, and Nigel Planer -- with the asistance of Robbie Coltrane, Rik Mayall, Danny Peacock, Peter Richens, and Alexei Sayle -- for Britain's Channel Four. The series has been in production on and off since 1982, and has amassed a sizeable number of films. Kate Bush was involved with the Comic Strip productions GLC, Les Dogs, and Wild Turkey. THE GAFFAWEB DICTIONARYgaffa.org/diction/index.htmlThe Comic Strip Presents - Les Dogs 1/3www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfGv4O3NpWsThe Comic Strip Presents - Les Dogs 2/3www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shoro2pVE3o&feature=relatedThe Comic Strip Presents - Les Dogs 3/3www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0oni543fCk&feature=relatedTHE RED SHOESThe Red Shoes (1948) ... The Red Shoes ... The Line, the Cross & the Curve (1994) ...[/i][/color] KB: Well it is very much connected with the film erm, I was lucky enough to meet Michael Powel, the director of The Red Shoes before he died and erm, he was such a sweet man, he was really sweet, I thought one of Britain's best directors and erm, he had a very strong effect on me, he was a very sweet man and er, he seems to have popped up in two or three of the songs that are on the album. The Aspel Kate Bush Interview gaffa.org/moments/1_3.htmlAERIAL ... ?Citizen Kane (1941) Pi (1998) Joan of Arc (1999) Mary Poppins (1964)The Golden Compass (2007)"Lyra" Written and Performed by Kate Bush Featuring The Choristers of Magdalen College Choir, Oxford Conductor: Bill Ives With Thanks to Andrew Halls Kate Bush appears courtesy of Noble and Brite Limited / EMI Records Limited Soundtracks for The Golden Compass (2007)www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/soundtrackKate Bush - Lyra - The Golden Compass (music video)www.youtube.com/watch?v=rei_OOUxaBE
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jul 14, 2008 14:43:17 GMT
Great idea for a thread, Tannis! I must admit, I'm not much of a film person, so I really haven't seen any of these, but it was interesting nonetheless to see the films that inspired some of Kate's music. And it encourages me to actually see some of them, as well.
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Post by tannis on Jul 15, 2008 22:32:52 GMT
^ Thanks... RUBIK'S KATE: The Shining (1980) and The Line, the Cross & the Curve (1994) Compare and contrast Stanley Kubrick's The Shining Trailer and Kate Bush's The Line, the Cross & the Curve, 1:31-1:40...The Shining (1980) Trailerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=piQFD4gz9l8Kate Bush - The Line, the Cross and the Curve - 7 of 7www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxU8vb96pA1:31-1:40...As she chats to Q, she spurns the comparison (although delighted to hear it) that she is rock's Stanley Kubrick. Mystically reclusive; unwilling to surrender creative control in any aspect or march to any timetable but her own; wholly original in a genre which instinctively crushes originality; obsessively perfectionist. For both, the use of the word "genius" is not wholly hyperbole. KB: "I admire Kubrick. God knows how he kept all that control on his movies and without having his heart broken. He really was a genius and he took himself away. I'm privileged to have creative control; that to me is everything. I wouldn't dare compare myself to him, but I know what you mean." Q magazine, "The Big Sleep" (2001)gaffa.org/reaching/iv01_q01.htmlHERE'S KATE! and HERE'S KUBRICK...I found a book on how to be invisible I found a book on how to be invisible I found a book on how to be invisible I found a book on how to be invisible All work and no play makes Jack a dull boyThe book that Jack was writing contained the one sentence ("All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy") repeated over and over. Stanley Kubrick had each page individually typed. For the Italian version of the film, Kubrick used the phrase "Il mattino ha l' oro in bocca" ("He who wakes up early meets a golden day"). For the German version, it was "Was Du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf Morgen" ("Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today"). For the Spanish version, it was "No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano" ("Rising early will not make dawn sooner."). For the French version, it was "Un 'Tiens' vaut mieux que deux 'Tu l'auras'" ("A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush")."Heeere's Kate!" ~ Under a veil... gaffa.org/wow/k120.jpgStanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971): movie coverfilmjournal.net/danielstephens/files/2006/08/clockwork_orange-poster1.jpg"Heeere's Kate!" ~ a pinch of keyhole...homepage.eircom.net/~twoms/kate051.jpgYou cut along the dotted line...Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980): movie cover: "Heeere's Johnny!"www.screamyourheadoff.com/movies/reviews/Shining_1980/images/shining.jpgAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boywww.youtube.com/watch?v=NgMdz2fe0CYIs she the Stanley Kubrick of pop? ... For a persistent researcher, it's not too difficult a task to understand that Kate is not quite what she is perceived to be. Time after time, she has uttered the same amazement at how far her reputation precedes her and how little it resembles her. "People have (a preconception) of me as a sort of big Bronte fan, a Tolkien fan, the pre-Raphaelite lady," she told VH1 in 1989, "which I think is actually a very big misconception." In 1983 she said "if people look at the album covers and buy the records then listen to them and perhaps read the lyrics then a lot of this mystery about me will fade." MusicOMH.com, "Kate Bush: Mystery Maiden?" (2005)gaffa.org/reaching/revaeweb1.html
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Post by Al Truest on Jul 16, 2008 0:21:52 GMT
Tannis, where do you find all of this. I'm glad you do - and do you not have a regular schedule (I don't BTW)
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Post by tannis on Jul 16, 2008 0:26:17 GMT
Googling KaTe... RUBIK'S KATE: The Shining (1980) and Get Out Of My House (1982)Footage from the movie The Shining set to the song Kate Bush wrote inspired by the movie and novel. It's fantastic!Kate Bush - Get Out Of My House vs The Shiningwww.youtube.com/watch?v=PJyp5HaPj68FAN: [ Inaudible. Something like do you have a favorite Kate Bush song?] PADDY: For me. Yes, yes. [ inaudible], singing on the end of it, but it's Get Out Of My House, really, was my favorite track. I think if Alfred Hitchcock ever made hit singles [Laughter] [ inaudible] And I love it, I love the energy that it deals with. It's fantastic. And Paul Hardiman's vocals on the very beginning of it I think are, to me, one of the most fantastic things thats ever been recorded. I used to go into fits of extascy when we listened to the multi-track tapes of that and those opening "Eoyores" and a marvelous [ inaudible]. I love that track. Convention 1985, Romford, Englandgaffa.org/dreaming/con_85.html
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Post by tannis on Jul 16, 2008 8:36:24 GMT
RUBIK'S KATE: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Breathing (1982)Compare and contrast Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A space odyssey - Ending (7:25-8:55) and Kate Bush's Breathing video...2001: A space odyssey - Endingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IPrx-zC1Y7:25-8:55... the "star child" comes into being...2001: A Space Odyssey: Conception allegory Some writers describe 2001 as an allegory of human conception, birth and death. New Zealand journalist Scott MacLeod who sees parallels between the spaceship's journey and the physical act of conception. Thus we have the long, bulb-headed spaceship as a sperm, and the destination planet Jupiter (or the monolith floating near it) as the egg, and the meeting of the two as the trigger for the growth of a new race of man (the "star child"). The lengthy pyrotechnic light show witnessed by David Bowman, which has puzzled many reviewers, is seen by MacLeod as Kubrick's attempt at visually depicting the moment of conception, when the "star child" comes into being. Taking the allegory further, MacLeod argues that the final scenes in which Bowman appears to see a rapidly aging version of himself through a "time warp" is actually Bowman witnessing the withering and death of his own species. The old race of man is about to be replaced by the "star child", which was conceived by the meeting of the spaceship and Jupiter. MacLeod also sees irony in man as a creator (of Hal) on the brink of being usurped by his own creation. Thus, by destroying Hal, man symbolically rejects his role as creator and steps back from the brink of his own destruction.
Kate Bush - Breathing www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n2VSe_lja4
KB on BREATHING: "...it's a message from the future. It's not from now, it's from a spirit that may exist in the future, a non-existent spiritual embryo who sees all and who's been round time and time again so they know what the world's all about. [Kubrick's "star child"?] ... It's almost like the mother's stomach is a big window that's like a cinema screen, and they're seeing all this terrible chaos." "Fire in the Bush" (1980?) gaffa.org/reaching/i80_zz.html
Out of nowhere, Breathing introduced new possibilities, demonstrating that a video needn't be a promotional afterthought; on the contrary, it could do a great service existing alongside its companion song, adding another interpretation rather than mugging it up. From now on, nothing would get into a Kate Bush video without some symbolic interest. KB: "Ever since Breathing I've wanted to make videos like little films." Breathing is split in two, the baby in the womb being born into a future nuclear age, screaming "Leave me something to breath!" while an atom bomb explodes in reverse, "just to try and say 'No, don't let it happen', which is a positive statement, I hope..." Review of The Single File, Melody Maker (1984) gaffa.org/reaching/i84_mm.htmlAnd maybe Kubrick's 2001 spacesuits inspired The Dreaming video costumes... 2001: A space odyssey - Endingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IPrx-zC1Ysee 2:03-2:12...
Kate Bush - The Dreamingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=0wkkuaTvIso
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Post by othon on Jul 16, 2008 21:47:23 GMT
Thank you Tannis for this great work
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Post by Al Truest on Jul 16, 2008 22:02:39 GMT
Thank you Tannis for this great work Tannis is one of our finest assets. He is even discussed at Homeground!
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jul 16, 2008 22:06:30 GMT
He is. 8-)But where was that? I love watching them talk about us. ;D
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Post by tannis on Jul 17, 2008 0:56:32 GMT
THANK YOU! ... And Thank You Gaffa... I have not been as much of a film buff either. But there are several that I will watch over and again over time...' Hitchcock films, To Kill a Mockingbird, Raisen in the Sun, Monty Python - some Woody Allen. But this post will also inspire me to investigate. I especially would like to see the film that inspired my former favorite song : 'Pull out the Pin' Pull Out The PinA song on the album The Dreaming. This song was inspired by a television documentary film; see:
Frontlinewww.youtube.com/watch?v=tAXSSq6sxxg KB: "I saw this incredible documentary by this Australian cameraman who went on the front line in Vietnam, filming from the Vietnamese point of view, so it was very biased against the Americans. He said it really changed him, because until you live on their level like that, when it's complete survival, you don't know what it's about. He's never been the same since, because it's so devastating, people dying all the time... The way he portrayed the Vietnamese was as this really crafted, beautiful race. The Americans were these big, fat, pink, smelly things who the Vietnamese could smell coming for miles because of the tobacco and cologne. It was devastating, because you got the impression that the Americans were so heavy and awkward, and the Vietnamese were so beautiful and all getting wiped out. They wore a little silver Buddha on a chain around their neck and when they went into action they'd pop it into their mouth, so if they died they'd have Buddha on their lips."The documentary filmmaker was Neil Davis, who worked in Southeast Asia from 1964 until his death in 1985. Davis did indeed report the war from the Vietnamese point of view -- the ARVN (Army of the Republic of South Vietnam) point of view. This alone would not serve to make him biased against the Americans, their allies. (It has been suggested that Kate wasn't paying very much attention while watching the documentary, or that her own expectations colored her recollection of it.)
Davis was eventually killed by a burst of shrapnel in a street in Bangkok on 9 September 1985. An excellent biography of Davis called One crowded hour: Neil Davis, combat cameraman (1987) has been written by Tim Bowden, a close friend of Davis. In a pleasing coincidence*, the foreword of this book begins with The Call:
"SOUND, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name."
The lines are by Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730 - 1809), written during the Seven Years' War of 1756 - 1763. The biography informs us that Davis wrote the last two lines of Mordaunt's verse in the flyleaf of every work diary he kept in Southeast Asia. Davis told Bowden it was his motto, and summed up his philosophy.
THE GAFFAWEB DICTIONARYgaffa.org/diction/index.html* Or maybe KT 'borrowed' THE SENSUAL WORLD (1989) title from Bowden's forward? Or maybe the flyleaf information was presented in the documentary? The word "sensual" does not occur in Ulysses, and so a fortiori neither does "the sensual world". 'The Sensual World' title seems to be 'original' to Kate. But is it? The last two lines of Mordaunt's verse also seem very KT Bush: The KATE BUSH TOUR (aka 'The Tour Of Life'): One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name...
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