Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Videos

Starring:Nick Cave, P.J. Harvey, Martyn Casey, Mick Harvey, Barry Adamson, Edward Clayton-Jones, Thomas Wydler, Shane MacGowan, Hugo Race, Warren Ellis, Conway Savage, Kid Congo Powers, Blixa Bargeld, Jim Sclavunos, Kylie Minogue
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An almost impossible movie to review
When the child was a child...
if you didn't like this, you didn't "get it" OR you aren't a dreamer
A Sure Cure for Depression
So Beautiful... So German

Wings of Desire
Starring: Curt Bois , Solveig Dommartin , Peter Falk , Bruno Ganz , and Otto Sander
Director: Wim Wenders
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Release Date: 2003-07-01

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"There are angels over the streets of Berlin," quotes the movie poster, but these are like no angels you've ever seen. Bundled in dark overcoats, they watch over the city with ears open to the heartbeat of the human soul, listening to the internal musings and yearnings of earthbound humans like existential detectives. In these delicate, astounding scenes we float through the thoughts of dozens Berlin citizens, from the weary and worn to the hopeful and young, as the angels record the magic moments for some heavenly record. But when Damiel (the empathic and sensitive Bruno Ganz) falls in love with an angel of another sort, the lonely trapeze artist Marion (willowy, sad-eyed Solveig Dommartin), he gives up the contemplation and observation of life to experience it himself.

Wim Wenders's most purely romantic film is like poetry on celluloid, a celebration of the transient and fragile moments of being human: the warmth of a cup of coffee on a cold day, the embrace of a friend, the touch of a lover, the rapture of love. Opening with an angel's-eye view of Berlin in silvery black and white (delicately captured by the great cinematographer Henri Alekan, who photographed Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast 40 years earlier), it transforms into a gauzy color world when Damiel "crosses over" by sheer will. Peter Falk plays himself as a fallen angel with a special sensitivity for celestial visitors ("I can't see you, but I know you're there," he proclaims), and Otto Sander, whose smiling eyes brighten a face etched by eons of waiting and watching, is Damiel's partner. Wenders made a sequel in 1993, Faraway, So Close, and Hollywood remade the film as City of Angels with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. --Sean Axmaker

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From Oscar®-nominated* writer/director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club) comes this "exhilarating" (Vanity Fair) and life-affirming tale that won him the 1987 Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and inspired City of Angels. Co-written with Peter Handke, this "enchanting" (The New York Times) film about the joy of life is "that rare thing a work of true originality" (Newsweek)! Damiel (Bruno Ganz) is a lonely angel who roams the streets of Berlin providing comfort to mortals in need. But when he is drawn into the life of a beautifuland troubledtrapeze artist, he experiences love for the first time and does everything in his power to be seen, heard and felt by her. Jeopardizing his divine position, Damiel is faced with a most difficult decision: either give up love or lose his eternal wings forever! *1999: Documentary Feature, Buena Vista Social Club

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An almost impossible movie to review.......2007-06-30

Angel sees a cute trapeze artist, gets tired of being a spectator and decides to become a participant. That pretty much sums up the plot. Wasn't that easy? Explaining exactly what this movie actually is about is a tad more challenging. It is mesmerizing, it is frustrating, and it seems much much longer than it actually is. It drives me crazy watching it, but every few years I am drawn back to it, just to see if I can mine a few more nuggets from it. Then it drives me crazy all over again.

It drives a lot of other people crazy, and bores them as well. As a viewer, one drifts along through the movie, waiting for something to observe something actually happening. It's not far removed from what the angels are experiencing. Perhaps the movie is intended to help us understand what these immortal angels are going through. Lucky us --- unlike Damiel & Cassiel, we get to write Amazon reviews and vent our frustrations.

When the child was a child..........2007-06-10

I love this film. The gauzy grey shots of Berlin and the haunting angelic score create an atmosphere, nearly a dream scape into which Bruno Ganz's dissatisfied Damiel struggles with his urge to be human; to have a cup of coffee, rub his hands together in the cold, to experience rather than know.
As this film uses mostly inner monologue, it is the amazing use of expressions by Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander that give the film its emotion, or rather give the viewer their emotion. Watching Damiel "pick up" a rock and try to feel it or Cassiel follow and listen to Homer, the storyteller, made me catch my breath. Both angels are standing outside a wall they try to breach in their own way. Put that together with the fact that they are able to walk through The Wall and you've got one amazing use of film.
I recommend this film with absolutely no reservations. I'm now off to find "Far Away, So Close!" and any other Wim Wenders film I can get my hands on!

if you didn't like this, you didn't "get it" OR you aren't a dreamer.......2007-06-01

if you are a meg ryan fan STOP READING HERE!!!!! i'm not kidding. stop.
this isn't a cutesy hollywood exploitive/derivative blathering of a movie like so many "romances" we know.
it is an entertaining [german] film with themes of desire and love. there is desire for connection and interaction, desire for physical expression, desire of passions. and love. rich boundless love. human and non-human love. love- both complicated and sad at times and easy and generous at others, i need kleenex every time. i feel uplifted every time.
now, maybe i am just a fool for true romance [and a beauty on a trapeeze,] but this is one of my all-time favorite films. (thank goodnesss you're not getting the usual roses popping up spontaneously here folks!) what wenders does is sumblime- one can see themself in the characters easily. they are faulted, genuine and believable in a context of life in "chilly" berlin and the occasional otherworldlyness. the cast is a delight to watch [falk kills me here] and you must check out nick cave and the bad seeds in the club scene.

here is a case where i wish that art was actually imitating life.

sigh.

A Sure Cure for Depression.......2007-05-02

Somehow this story--about an angel who wants to be human--persuades you that it's wonderful to be alive. It manages this in spite of the fact that many of the humans shown are miserable.

So Beautiful... So German.......2007-01-30

This film is touching and poetic, beautiful and desolate. It is truley of the post-war zietgiest, interspersed footage of the clean up of Berlin and multiple references to the toll taken on the German people by the Third Reich.
The story of Damiel's love for the trapeze artist is almost secondary to his love of the human condition. This condition is masterfully shown as both euphoric and tragic through disjointed and philosophical dialouge, the haunting imagery, and Bruno Ganz childlike joy at his first cup of coffee.
I cannot recommend this film enough. 5 stars seems to sell it short. It is an absolute MUST for anyone who loves the German style of cinema.

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Director: Julien Temple
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Release Date: 2007-06-12

The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray]

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Low budget greatness
TERROR MOVIE BLURAY EXCELLENT BUY IT.
Fabulous. Make sure your Blu-ray is updated though.
TRULY SCARY - Blu-ray Perfection!
Review on the film, not the disk

The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray]
Starring: Oliver Milburn , Shauna MacDonald , Natalie Mendoza , Alex Reid , and Leslie Simpson
Director: Neil Marshall
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ASIN: B000JJ5F0W
Release Date: 2006-12-26

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Low budget greatness.......2007-06-12

The Descent didn't actually scare me, but it came closer than any film I've seen. The claustrophobic angles and dark, nearly pitch black lighting really gave it an effect I haven't seen since Pitch Black. The creatures were well done and nearly believable, and quite frightening. I would hate to be in the caves with them. Since this was a horror/thriller, the story wasn't expected to be very dense, and the characters weren't expected to be atypical, and this is usually the fault with this genre. If you want to terrify the audience, you need to identify with the victims and get to care for them. In this film we're just barely introduced to them enough to get to know their stereotype. But all of this doesn't matter when they enter the cave system and we see the beautiful underworld. This cave has never been mapped, so this is the greatest adventure these spelunkers could hope for, until the crawlspaces collapse behind them. With no way back, they move onward looking for an exit when the dark, confined spaces start to take a toll on their minds. But being stuck under the earth is the least of their worries. I really liked how well the film was made, and how complex the story got once the action got started. I said early we didn't expect the people to be atypical, but they really developed under the pressures of darkness, flight and survival.

TERROR MOVIE BLURAY EXCELLENT BUY IT........2007-05-07

Overall this movie is the best about sound, image, etc.. Just be carefully because you are going to need update your firmware from 1.50 to 1.55 bluray device or Play Station 3 higher than 1.3. Please BUY IT NOW but don't see it alone.

Fabulous. Make sure your Blu-ray is updated though........2007-04-05

Picture Quality- 1080p: 5 Stars
Sound Quality- Dolby Digital EX: 5 Stars
Movie Content and Bonus Features: 5 Stars

One of the best so far for Blu-Ray!

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TRULY SCARY - Blu-ray Perfection!.......2007-03-14

I love a great horror film that can actually make you want to turn the light on or lose sleep after watching it. Every so often a film comes along that accomplishes this and 'The Descent' is a prime example. The film is a departure from the clutter of junk horror films that have been released over the past few years by not merely infiltrating you with just startle scenes. The sheer fear factor of being trapped hundreds of feet below ground with the prospect of death at every turn is simply the cornerstone of the aural terror you feel throughout most of the film.

The Blu-ray presentation is immaculate from the reference quality video to the PCM 6.1 lossless audio track that is amazingly immersive. A must see for any horror fan and a 'high recommend' for anyone!

Review on the film, not the disk.......2007-03-06

I guess everyone's opinion will vary, but I found this film and it's story to be completely lame. First of all, anyone who has EVER spelunked knows that you do not enter a cave without a map. Perhaps if you're some kind of professional adventurer and have the tools, support personnel, and the resources perhaps. However, this group of women certainly did not fit the bill. The characters were not well-developed, as some other reviewers would have you believe. They basically each seemed to fit into the stereotypical "group of gals" roles, when you were given any kind of glimpse into their personas. Really the only characters that were at all developed was the main character and Juno (the idiot that lead her friends, unknown to them, into an unknown cave system), and the both of them barely at that. All we really know about the groups is that they're women, Juno is something of an adventurer and probably had an affair with the main character's husband, and the main character's husband was tragically killed shortly after the group's last adventure.

Once we get into the cave the movie starts to take off...if that's what you want to call it. Yeah, they did a good job with the camera work and lighting, lending a sense of claustraphobia. The 'monsters' in the film really didn't go very far instilling fear into the viewer. The big mistake they made was in showing the enemy. In a movie like this, what you don't know is more scary than what you do know. Unfortunately, they didn't leave you with this fear of the unknown for long. After a short time, I found myself hoping for the ladies' deaths to come quick so that the film would end. I won't ruin the ending, but many of you will be saying, "What?" when the 'twist' is revealed. Fortunately, I rented this movie on NetFlix, so I lost out on nothing more than an hour and a half of my time.

If I Should Fall from Grace - The Shane MacGowan Story

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Shane's Rather Boring in his Biography
If you like Shane this is a total must for your collection
Brilliant
Reality uncompromised
The Pogues at their rowdiest, poetic best.

If I Should Fall from Grace - The Shane MacGowan Story
Starring: Deirdre O'Mahony , Victoria Clarke (II) , Kirsty MacColl , Philip Gaston , and John Lydon
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Release Date: 2003-04-22

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IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE (MACGOWAN,SHANE)

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As any Pogues fan could've told you, The Shane MacGowan Story was destined to be funny, sad, uplifting, depressing, and utterly irresistible. By the time this engaging documentary was produced in 2000, MacGowan--former Pogues frontman, notorious drinker, and one of the greatest songwriters of his generation--was still the unrepentant alcoholic who caused his former bandmates so much worry. They loved him then and love him still (bandmate Philip Chevron speaks most eloquently of their history), and for all his toothless cackling and constant stupor, MacGowan is seen here as an amiable Irish pub-crawler, coherent in thought if not always in speech, still making music (with his latter-day band, the Popes), and obviously devoted to his wife, Victoria Clarke, an enabling saint whose love for MacGowan is joyfully unconditional. Archival clips, video excerpts, and interviews with MacGowan's friends and family complete this comprehensive chronicle, making it an essential addition to any punk-'n-Pogues library. --Jeff Shannon

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Shane's Rather Boring in his Biography.......2007-05-10

I love the Pogues like anyone but I have to confess, Shane's a very boring interview. He drags in his speak and repeats what he's said numerous times in previous interviews. Tipperary this and Tipperary that...

That being said, I loved the early footage in his year's with the Nipps and found the footage of an older, wiser MacGowan performing in Dublin to be an expression of bewildering nostalgia. That man has literally gone to hell and back and he's still standing, even waltzing with his mother on stage to a crowd of young Irish lads who still treat him as the "next big act" in Ireland.

His biographies are more interesting than his recollections of his life in interview.

If you like Shane this is a total must for your collection.......2007-05-03

I saw this film a couple of years ago, I finally purchased my own copy of it.
This documentary is just fantastic and covers more or less the entire life up to the present of the great Shane Macgowan. Rather than just copying what most people have written about this movie I will just say a quick little quirp about what I really enjoy about it.

First off the opening of the movie sold me right away. The Popes live performing Paddy Public Enemy #1. That right there had me.
There is a ton of music in this documentary which I really enjoyed; too many music documentaries never have enough music and actuall performances for my liking. This one has a huge amount.

Many of the interviews are fantastic also. Not your typical "Oh so and so is a great performer", super in depth interviews about who and how Shane really is.

There is not a lot of extra stuff worth while except the extended interviews, do yourself a favor and be sure to check out "Shane and Nature" or something along those lines, it is hilarious!

So if you love The Pogues, if you love The Popes get this movie you will not be disappointed one bit!

Up the Republic!

Brilliant.......2007-01-12

This movie shows the genius that is Shane, warts and all. A little rough to watch his slide into olblivion but it also gives you appreciation for where he has been and where he is going. I saw the Pogue's last year for Paddy's Day in NYC and he still has not missed a step musically or performing.

Reality uncompromised.......2007-01-08

A real dose of where this artist came from and the influnces that made him what he is. I would have given this five stars if it was more introspective of the artist, although what they got was probably the best they could hope for. There is some great music and interviews and if you read between the lines, a sensitive artist. Somewhat depressing but definitely real.

The Pogues at their rowdiest, poetic best........2006-12-10

To these ears, this recording and Run, Sodomy and the Lash are the two classic Pogues CD's. On the other one, you can understand the words but the passion in this one makes up for amy lack of understanding lyrics. What can you say about a combination of politics, Catholicism, sex, love, Irish traditional music and punk? What can you say about a fantastic writer such as Shane McGowan, with the backing of such a musically strong and impeccable band? The results are magically compelling from the title cut that moves along at the speed of light, to the moving song about immigration, Thousands Are Sailing. McGowan sings with all the passion of someone nearly possessed but behind the passion is someone who knows the power of great poetic lyrics and a good melody-he really writes songs that stand the test of time, and the passion is what I would call Irish soul music. Try to listen to The Turkish Song of the Damned and not move at least your feet. I remember when I saw them back in 1987 in London with my English cousin-they seemed to all be drinking on stage as was most of the audience, and I thought I would be squished to death in a rumble, but fortunately that didn't happen. But nearly 20 years later, the music has lost none of its power and remains a favorite to this day.

The Road to God Knows Where/Live at the Paradiso

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cool but far from perfect.
An insane carreer that leads to God knows where

The Road to God Knows Where/Live at the Paradiso
Starring: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House
Abattoir Blues Tour (2CD+2DVD)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Videos
B-Sides & Rarities

ASIN: B000CCZR6S
Release Date: 2006-01-24

Description

Previously available on VHS, now released on DVD for the first time! 'The Road To God Knows Where' is a film by Uli M. Schueppel featuring a cast of Nick Cave, members of the Bad Seeds as well as Anita Lane, Lydia Lunch, Jim Thirwell and more. 'Live At The Paradiso' is a full-length live concert from the famed Paradiso Club in Amsterdam from 1992 featuring Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing "The Mercy Seat", "The Ship Song", "Tupelo", amongst others.

DVD Features:
2 DVD

DVD 1:
'The Road To God Knows Where', A Film by Uli M. Schueppel
'The Song' A Short Film by Uli M. Schueppel
City Of Refuge

DVD 2:
'Live At The Paradiso', Amsterdam (1992)
Intro
The Mercy Seat
Jack The Ripper
The Ship Song
Tupelo
Deanna
The Good Son
The Carny
Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
The Weeping Song
In The Ghetto
From Her To Eternity
New Morning

Customer Reviews:

cool but far from perfect........2006-09-12

i love nick cave and the music and performance but this dvd is not pure gold by any means. The Road to Nowhere is slow at best, just a lot of behind the scenes footage edited together. There are good moments but mostly it's watching people do normal stuff for a long time. Sitting on the bus, jamming a little, arguing with management. It offers insight but little entertainment.

the performance is much more fun to watch but the image quality isn't that great and whoever edited it cut and pasted multiple performances together rather than just presenting one concert like I would have preferred. It's distracting to see what Nick's wearing change from shot to shot.

Performance wise it's tight it's the dvd that's shaky.

An insane carreer that leads to God knows where.......2006-02-10

First there was the release of the `God is in the house' dvd, a performance Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds gave in France, in 2001. Later on there was the awesome release of Nick's first real band The Birthday Party: two live punk gigs in the beginning of the 80's.
Now there is a double bill on dvd: the black & white documentary `The Road to God knows where', which can be best described as a `behind the scenes of Nick and The Bad Seeds on tour', and the 1992 concert in Paradiso, Amsterdam.

The documentary is a deliberatly paced, understated, non-explaning series of impressions. No biography here, no guiding voice-over or cinematic manipulation: just scenes which themselves often do not really have a point, but are, as a whole, a pure look at The Man as he really is, calm, dead-pan funny at times, but often serious and quiet. Not at all the rockbeast he sometimes is during his shows. To some this may simply be a dull film without real climaxes or `exceptional happenings', but to the real fans it gives a true feeling of an almost Jim Jarmusch road movie a.k.a. "slices of life".

The second disc contains the live concert in Holland and this show happens to be the perfect bridge between the crazy, insane Early Years and the more mature and structured performance of the exceptional singer / songwriter Nick Cave is now (`God is in the house').

In Amsterdam's Paradiso Nick jumps all over the stage, shouting and screaming as a man in rage, pleading as a mad preacher and even kneeling down, either before himself (`The good son') or the audience (`Papa won't leave you, Henry').
There is no rest in this almost psychotic man, not even during the Elvis-evergreen `In the ghetto', although it is, together with a delirious performance of `The carny', a point of ease and rest in between the real adrenaline pumping classics like `The mercy seat', `Tupelo' and `From her to eternity'.
The latter song is sung with an almost grunging voice at first, but it never really goes over the edge; Nick is just an intens and hyperenergetic performer with an almost Biblical mission: the stage is his altar and The Caveman is there to convert the crowd.

No rest for the pity or the wicked. And thank God somewhere down the road for that.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House

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but the concert footage
So Glad I Bought This
Someday he'll come out ... God Is In the House
God Is In The House...and Nick is as well...
Stop! Quit! I can't take it!

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Videos
The Road to God Knows Where/Live at the Paradiso
B-Sides & Rarities
Abattoir Blues Tour (2CD+2DVD)
Tender Prey

ASIN: B0000AM6NP
Release Date: 2003-08-26

Customer Reviews:

but the concert footage.......2006-12-23

people here aren't giving enough attention to the actual concert on the dvd. it is first and foremost a concert dvd and there's no escaping that the sound is quality is just plain poor. the vocals are buried deep and it's almost like they just set up a speaker in the back and recorded it that way. yes the performance is great as expected but it still fails on original intent.

no need to watch the documentary and the videos aren't anything you can see on youtube anyhow.

So Glad I Bought This.......2005-04-09

This is a great DVD. The primary feature is the concert, which alone, would be worth the price, but in addition it also includes three promo videos (Love Letter, AS I Sat Sadly By Her Side, and Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow), and a documentary on the recording sessions for And No More Shall We Part, which most cave fans that I've met agree is their best record.
I had never seen Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live. Wasn't sure what I was in for.
Nick Cave is a rock star. He is so alive and animated on stage. He stomps and swaggers with the charisma of a mad man.

If you're into Nick Cave, there's no question: you need this DVD.

Someday he'll come out ... God Is In the House .......2004-09-01

Perhaps the greatest example of a true showman. Nick Cave stomps around stage pointing and screaming at the audience one minute, then gently caressing the mic the next. He's a charismatic cross between an early 1950's crooner and a mid-1970's minister - somehow he makes it all accessible and brilliant. For those into masochistic entertainment, please apply here. It's lyrically brutal music, but transforms into an artform once Cave delivers in his Jim Morrison/Elvis/Johnny Cash baritone while proclaiming to the audience, "All of God's children will have to die."

This is, of course, a DVD of a show Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds performed in Lyons, France around 2001 (just after the recording of the album, `No More Shall We Part' - my favorite Cave release by the way). It showcases the mad, frantic, masterful way Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds can direct emotions and coax the audience into applauding even though he's bringing to light all their flaws (well not just them, but humans in general).

But I've gotten caught up in describing only one half of his musical persona. The other half consists of the brooding crooner (think David Bowie, Tom Waits, or Lou Reed) singing lines such as, "We've bred all our kittens white so that we can see them in the night ... God is in the house." - any songwriter who can compare forced Christian individualism and seclusion with cats, has my vote as one of the greatest lyricists of the 20th century.

It is rather terrifying, because if it wasn't for the documentary (more on that later), you'd think that Cave actually meant every lyric he pronounced - he's that good of a performer. Pure emotion and visceral honesty. After you hear him shouting, "Do you love me?" after describing his lover's bleeding thighs with complete conviction, you wonder, Is he talking from experience?

Now the crowning achievement (both of Cave and whoever produced this DVD), is the documentary which shows Cave and his cohorts recording the `No More Shall We Part' album. It shows Cave in a different light than what most people are used to. You think you'd see a brooding madman, berating and ranting (like his live shows), but here in his natural persona (I've used that word again), he is surprisingly normal. Quiet, encouraging, and sarcastically funny, he seems like someone worth knowing in real life. I was worried `cause, as entertaining as it is, his live personality is something I'd rather watch from a distance.

While Cave and his band (the Bad Seeds) aren't at their absolute best on this particular show (performing wise), they still have the energy they had back in the `80s (impressive, considering that there's not a person in the band younger than 40). Hopefully there will be another live performance released on DVD, but for those who need more, check out the album `Live Seeds' - a flawless performance - perhaps one of the greatest live albums of all time.

God Is In The House...and Nick is as well..........2004-06-24

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds would have to rate as one of the all-time great line-ups of musicians ever to grace the stages and stereos of the world, and thus its fitting that their first DVD be suitably impressive.

The main extravagance of "God Is In The House" is a concert recorded in Lyon, France on the 2001 "No More Shall We Part" tour. Featuring a Bad Seeds line up of Mick Harvey (guitars), Blixia Bargeld (guitars), Conway Savage (piano), Jim Sclavonous (percussion), Warren Ellis (violin/organ), Tomas Wylder (drums) and Martyn Casey (bass). This is a truly spectacular line up and they deliver a very good concert. The curtain raiser, "Do You Love Me?", is very good, but the pace doesn't let up - nearly every song is a highlight, except (oddly) the title track, which personally doesn't do anything for me. Maybe other people get something out of it that I don't.

The extras are very impressive as well. All three "No More..." videos are included - the very abstract "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side", the incredibly hilarious "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" and the beautifully emotional "Love Letter", which brought tears to my eyes. A forty-minute film of the band recording "No More Shall We Part" provides a great insight into the recording of an album (and the bit in the middle featuring the recording of "The Sorrowful Wife" is brilliant).

Ultimately, if you're a Nick Cave fan, there's simply no excuse not to own this (unless you don't have the money). It's not perfect, but damn it comes close. "The Videos" should be great, too.

Stop! Quit! I can't take it!.......2004-01-24

Wow! What can I say? This is one of the most amazing DVDs I've ever had the pleasure of viewing! Whoa! What amazing music! What amazing showmanaship!! Please...let the words "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds" ring thoughout the land.

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most depressing pic other than eves byou...
An odd, unique, affecting film
Not to mention the hair
Suede is groovy man
Is Johnny For Real?

Johnny Suede
Starring: Brad Pitt , Calvin Levels , Catherine Keener , Alison Moir , and Michael Luciano (II)
Director: Tom DiCillo
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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Living in Oblivion

ASIN: B00005MM6V
Release Date: 2005-08-30

Album Description

Canadian edition of 1992 surrealistic black comedy starring Brad Pitt & Catherine Keener, directed by Tom Di Cillo ('Living in Oblivion').

Customer Reviews:

most depressing pic other than eves byou..........2006-12-20

not a comedy or romance as stated.the most depressing flix ever.not even sure i like it but theres something very true about it.something so truely sad at the core. yuck

An odd, unique, affecting film.......2004-09-13

JOHNNY SUEDE does what indie films do best. It presents an odd, unique vision that's tough to describe or market. (A similar oddball film is THE LAST BIG THING).

The film takes place in Brooklyn, but you wouldn't know it unless you read the credits. It's not the recognizable Brooklyn of Spike Lee, or Woody Allen, or John Travolta. With the sparse sets and anachronistic pop music costumes (of Darlette, Johnny, and Freak) I wasn't even sure about the time period. Sometimes it seems to be set in a surreal alternate realm (like STREETS OF FIRE).

Johnny is a musician who plays retro rock, but his huge pompadour hair is so buffonish, one wonders if he's not meant as a caricature, a joke that no one quite gets. Then one sees Freak Storm in the same hair, and one wonders again if we're in an alternate realm in which this is a common style. (We see the same bizarre hair in TROUBLE IN MIND, and that film was indeed set in the near future.)

Like STREETS OF FIRE, JOHNNY SUEDE draws you in. You can't try and figure out this film, you just have to accept it on its own terms and enjoy the ride.

The music is excellent. I wish they'd release a soundtrack, though it seems they never have.

I disagree with a comment that said that everyone takes advantage of Johnny. I see it as largely the other way. Johnny is a parasite and sloth. (1) Deek tries to help him with getting a real job, and even lends him money. Johnny shows no gratitude. (2) Johnny turns down a music gig because it goes against his artistic sensibility to perform without a bassist, even though the other band members are ready and willing to go ahead. Then Johnny complains that it's the others who are no help. (3) Not wanting to work, Johnny comes up with the idea of robbing a barber shop. Deek does the work of getting the gun, but Johnny flakes out. (4) Yvonne is a devoted girlfriend, cooking for Johnny, baking him a birthday cake, buying him a shirt, and Johnny only cheats on her in return. (5) Johnny is behind on his rent, so he's also taking advantage of his landlord. (6) And Johnny tries to take advantage of Darlette's music business mother. Sure, she also wants to bed him. But does that let Johnny off the hook?

Ultimately, JOHNNY SUEDE is fascinating to watch, occassionally funny (especially Freak Storm), with great music. But it's also a depressive film. These people do not live great lives, and there's no bright future ahead. All they have is their youth, which allows them to dream. What will happen when they're no longer young?

Johnny is happy only because he's too dense to know better, his vision of reality obscured by his dream world. However, there's a hint of hope at the end, in that he apologizes to Yvonne and loses his shoe (the latter perhaps symbolizing his budding maturity).

I've seen this film several times. Well worth a look for fans of oddball indie films.

Not to mention the hair.......2004-01-22

This was really quite a deplorable little movie. The awfulness of the acting, with one exception, eclipsed even the painfulness of the concept. Brad Pitt, never very gifted as an actor, here hit rock bottom, fortunately early in his career. When I say fortunately I mean for him, not for the rest of us, who have had to endure his later somnolent roles whose dreadfulness is said, by some, to be compensated for by his abs and pretty face.
I am sure this movie would have sucked out my life and left me a vegetable, except for the performance of Catherine Keener, whose brilliance as an actress has, alas, never been rewarded with the success that she deserves.

Suede is groovy man.......2003-11-13

filled with great direction and sparkled together with the likable performance of Brad Pitt as Johnny Suede. Suede wants to make a band and he does but then things fall apart as he spirals into relationships and conflicts. Catherine Keener is also great. Samuel L. Jackson and Calvin Levels also star, though Jackson has a small roll as Pitt's band bass player. a great movie

Is Johnny For Real?.......2003-06-15

"Johnny Suede" is a wonderfully refreshing off-beat comedy that blends surrealism and a critical pop-culture sensibility while challenging film conventions in a playful, entertaining way. The story follows would-be retro rocker "Johnny" (Brad Pitt) though his adventures in love and music. Katherine Keener plays Johnny's "real" love interest as the girl who rescues him from his shallow ambitions. This is an extremely unusual film that mixes magical events and dream sequences energizing the work with a highly surreal feeling. Set in a decaying and spooky section of Brooklyn, the relationships between characters take on a greater, more universal significance. If I didn't know better, I might consider Tom Dicillo a cinematic genius, with a touch of Beckett for good measure. But, funny enough....

In an interview years later, Tom Dicillo said that "Johnny Suede," his first feature film, was the product of a "shooting nightmare." According to Dicillo, Brad Pitt (Johnny Suede) played the character as if he recently had a "frontal lobodomy." There was even a suggestion in the interview that Pitt willfully dumbed-down the character despite Dicillo's direction to play him as an ordinary mixed-up guy "just trying to figure things out." There was even a hint that Pitt was intentionally sabotaging the shoot as buzz began to circulate that he was destined for stardom (think Thema & Louise). However, I believe he was simply too good an actor to take a character like Johnny without irony. Dicillo considers the movie a failure and said that he was forced to leave in strange, awkward scenes because he simply had no choice (read money) to shoot them again.

Description

The first ever DVD to feature The Birthday Party, the internationally acclaimed band that launched Nick Cave onto the world stage. The DVD features a host of very rare material. The original promo videos for "Nick The Stripper" and "Deep In The Woods" are included, along with some extremely rare television performances from both British and Dutch TV. Two complete gigs from the world famous Hacienda club in Manchester complete the package. The shows feature the band at the height of their powers in 1982 and 1983, and include "Pleasure Avalanche", "The Six Strings That Drew Blood" and "Sonny's Burning" from the Indie Chart hit "Mutiny / Bad Seed E.P."

Customer Reviews:

Is that smoke I smell?.......2005-08-02

If you're like me (and I know I am), you appreciate the curse of the post-modern man; that is, being born AFTER all your interests and heroes have already died or become passe. I happen to have been born the same year the Birthday Party crashed and, as a consequence, never had the opportunity to witness the barely controlled chaos of a live show. Luckily for me (and others like me), someone thought to bring a video camera.
The extra material, including some pretty wicked Black Flag footage, is a nice thick icing on an already sweet Birthday cake. Make a wish.

Very Cool!.......2004-05-13

I'm really excited that I actually own this DVD! Some of this footage is priceless. The DVD contains concert footage as well as T.V. and music video footage, and is a wonderful collection of images whether a Birthday Party fan or not. This is a video document worthy of placement in a time capsule. It just proves how boring, static, uninspiring, and "safe" today's music is! If you think today's "punk" or hip-hop is challenging or pioneering you desperately need this in order to get some perspective!

Splendid!.......2003-04-20

The new material is worth the price of the disc! The TV appearances and promos: "Fears of Gun", "Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)" and "junkyard" are the crispest quality video of the Birthday Party I've ever seen. And the version of "Deep in the Woods" is incredible. Definitely give you nightmares! I've owned the Pleasure Heads VHS since 85, and was always frustrated by the video quality (It's 20 year old video, afterall). Maybe it's wishful tinking, but even the Hacienda material seems sharper.
--Robert Westermeyer

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It's about the music not the pictures.
bad seeds don't fall far from the tree
Ditto the Mixed Bag
The bad seeds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty crappy for such a great artist.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Videos
Starring: Nick Cave , Mick Harvey , Barry Adamson , Hugo Race , and Warren Ellis
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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ASIN: B0001JXOPI
Release Date: 2004-05-04

Customer Reviews:

It's about the music not the pictures........2006-04-09

Nick doesn't even like making videos. Rent don't buy this one. It's much more worth your while to buy a live performance DVD.

bad seeds don't fall far from the tree.......2005-08-02

Videos are, demonstrably, not a strong point for the Bad Seeds. Neither are they a point of interest for the band. If you are interested in inspired and objectively interesting videos, look elsewhere. However, if you like to watch Nick Cave dance around while Blixa Bargeld looks very pretty in the background, you've found your match. The commentary between the videos is entertaining and offers a glimpse into the minds of the otherwise taciturn Bad Seeds. This is a collection for the collectors, or the über-fans.

Ditto the Mixed Bag.......2005-04-02

If you have not seen this DVD, it must be restated that Cave and his bandmates admit from the very start that they do not like doing videos. So, if you presumably already have these songs on CD and many of the reviews lean toward the negative, why own this? Well, in my view, The Videos is a great collection precisely because it is so primitive and often silly. I don't like all the songs and would rather that others had taken the place of those I don't like, hence the four stars. But overall, this is a video that any Nick Cave fan should be eager to own because actually watching Cave perform adds so much more to the songs.
The following are my favorites:
1) Staggerlee---Cave in his most menacing stance. The dancing is so silly you may roll on the floor laughing.
2) Where the Wild Roses Grow---Manichean juxtapositions. Cave and Minogue play their roles to the hilt. And then there's that snake...
3) Into My Arms---The imagery is what gets you. Very stark.
4) Henry Lee---The video does not really fit the words, but you can feel the sexual tension generated by PJ Harvey and Cave.
5) Red Right Hand---Always a great song, sinister as Cave can make it.
6) Do You Love Me---Actually, I couldn't care less about the bozos he filmed in a Brazilian dive, but the performance is urgent and bursting with Cave's energy.
7) Jack the Ripper---Full of blood, brings the lyrics to hideous life.
8) Mercy Seat---Somewhat weak, but Cave looks the part of a loser who is about to be fried. Could have been a lot more graphic, but still a great song.
9) The Weeping Song--The set it comical (with the phony water and rocking boat, the guys swilling Retsina), the dancing stupid, and Blixa Bargeld with a voice tailor-made for a song like this.
10) I Had A Dream, Joe---Shows the band at its most manic. No acting per se, but lots of great shots of individual band members frantically playing and Cave working himself into an exhausting frenzy.

What didn't I like? They could have jettisoned What A Wonderful World and In the Ghetto for sure. They stink out loud, particularly that last,the aural stench of which still lingers in my ears.
Addressing one reviewer's complaint, one can skip the commentary before each song by selecting the songs one by one rather than playing the whole thing through. A bit of a pain, but its an option.
So, overall I ditto the mixed bag judgement of several reviewers but reiterate my recommendation of The Videos for anyone who is truly a Nick Cave fan. I plan to enjoy this DVD frequently and you may find that you will too as long as you remember the proviso that these videos are not the acme of the art.

The bad seeds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-03-31

The bad seeds certainly! I liked Where The Wild Roses Grow, because the video is excellent. Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue are great in this one, but I figure that's just because I like Kylie and nothing else but Nick is good in this one! The only Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds video I like.

Pretty crappy for such a great artist........2004-11-25

I really enjoy Nick Cave's music and I have almost all of his CDs. He has a deep and poetic lyrical style that is rare in popular music today. So when I saw his DVD of music videos, I was intrigued. Man was I let down. Maybe two or three of the videos are tolerable, most are bad and a few are outright terrible. I am pretty forgiving to low budget productions in most cases. Usually I can get passed the cheap sets and poor camera work on videos, if they are creative. But something about these videos' cheap production was just plain bad. If you like Nick Cave, stick to his audio collection and just pretend you never saw this DVD.

Director's Series Vol. 5 - Work of Director Jonathan Glazer

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Not Complete, but Maybe Just Right
Not about quantity, but quality...

Director's Series Vol. 5 - Work of Director Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Damon Albarn , Richard Ashcroft (II) , Richard Ashcroft (III) , Jean-Claude Carrière , and Nick Cave
Director: Nick Cave , and Jonathan Glazer
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd
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ASIN: B0009WIEF2
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer began by directing pop promos and advertisements before transitioning into features. His video style is crisp and clean, yet vaguely menacing. There's always more going on than meets the eye--a quality carried over into his films. Like Kubrick, he's partial to Steadicams and empty hallways. Massive Attack's "Karmacoma" even features twins straight from The Shining, while Blur's "The Universal" cops from A Clockwork Orange, so he's not exactly shying away from the influence. Glazer's commercial style, on the other hand, is more wide-ranging, less easily identifiable. His ambitious ads for Guinness, Levi's, etc. bring out his playful side in a way the videos do not. Interestingly, oddball actor Denis Lavant (Beau Travail) shows up twice, in the creepy clip for UNKLE's "Rabbit in Your Headlights" and the "Last Orders" spot for Stella Artois. This Director's Series edition also features excerpts from Sexy Beast and Birth.--Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Be sure to check out The Director's Label Boxed Set Vol. 2, featuring The Work of Jonathan Glazer, and volumes by Mark Romanek, Anton Corbijn, and Stéphane Sednaoui.

Description

Jonathan Glazer is a music video and commercial icon whose extraordinary work reveals his gift for intense visual ambition. After winning multiple awards for both mediums he directed the 2001 feature film, Sexy Beast starring Sir Ben Kingsley, followed in 2004 by Birth starring Nicole Kidman.

Customer Reviews:

Not Complete, but Maybe Just Right.......2005-11-08

At first glance, I was disappointed by the material provided on this DVD. This is supposed to be a music video compilation, and how many videos are we provided here: 7 or 8? In comparison to the Romanek and Corbijn DVDs, this disc seems to fall short. After a run though, this turned out to be a quality disc of Glazer's "best" material.

Pretty much all the videos (even if there's only a few here) are spectacular. The Karma Police and Street Spirit videos rival Michel Gooooondry for the king of Radiohead directors. The multiple speeds of the subjects in Street Spirit confused me, really confused me, when I first saw the video on MTV, and I still didn't know how he did it until it was explained here. His famous Jamiroquai video is always fun to watch again, and although the floor trick isn't nearly as cool after the first few viewings, you have to admit that it's original. Oh, and I definitely can't leave out the video for "Rabbit in the Headlights," one of my favorites, straight genius.

Although you get gypped with the number of videos, it almost evens out with the film clips, extras, and commercials included here. Glazer has pretty much proven his talents in all three areas, so getting a chance to watch his clever Guinness Commercials or his hilarious dark comedy Sexy Beast is a nice treat (I hope everyone has seen this movie by now). I still haven't seen Birth, though, so I've prevented myself from watching the excerpts here.

The only thing this disc lacks is quality commentary, especially in the music video section. I almost never trade the music for the commentaries, and the extras are pretty weak, too. However, this is a solid introduction to a very unique and talented director, and definitely worth having in your collection.

Not about quantity, but quality..........2005-06-24

This DVD contains almost all of Jonathan Glazer's eye-popping videos.

I guess he's not directed more than a dozen, but who needs more with a portafolio like his.

Now venturing into feature film, directing Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast and NIcole Kidman in Birth, Jonathan Glazer's DVD showcases his best videos and extensively doucments his other work in commercials and feature film.

THE WORK OF DIRECTOR JONATHAN GLAZER
Music Videos
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Richard Ashcroft - A Song for the Lovers
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights
Blur - The Universal
Radiohead - Karma Police
Massive Attack - Karmacoma

Commercials
Wrangler - Ride
Guinness - Surfer (extended)
Guinness - Swim Black
Guinness - Dreamer
Volkswagen - Protection
Stella Artois - Last Orders
Stella Artois - Whip Round
Levis - Kung Fu
Levis - Odyssey
Barclays - Bull (with Samuel L. Jackson)
Barclays - Chicken (with Samuel L. Jackson)

Interviews and Commentaries
Including Nick Cave, Richard Ashcroft, Jamiroquai, Denis Lavant, 3D, Blur and James Lavelle.

Films
Sexy Beast (excerpt) - You're the Problem
Interviews with Ray Winstone and Sir Ben Kingsley
Birth (excerpt) - Central Park
Interviews with Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Harris Savides, Milo Addica and Jean Claude Carriere.

Tramp: Paul Kaye

52 Page Book
Includes photographs, sketches, storyboards and interviews.

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