The sea has long been a source of inspiration for poets and musicians. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s lyrical ballad, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” to Iron Maiden’s metal ballad “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” every genre and permutation of the artforms has been entranced by the romance, adventures, and disasters that can happen when a vessel take to the open waters.
And there's something especially appealing about those disasters, it seems. Few musicians can resist the allure of a good shipwreck, and all of the helplessness and hopeless that comes with being stranded in the middle of nowhere while you are left to thrash, fade and die in the water. Whether they’re the basis for an epic ballad, a metaphor for a broken relationship, or the inspiration for a nightmare, sinking ships have have been memorialized in folk songs, toasted by rap’s predecessors, explored...
And there's something especially appealing about those disasters, it seems. Few musicians can resist the allure of a good shipwreck, and all of the helplessness and hopeless that comes with being stranded in the middle of nowhere while you are left to thrash, fade and die in the water. Whether they’re the basis for an epic ballad, a metaphor for a broken relationship, or the inspiration for a nightmare, sinking ships have have been memorialized in folk songs, toasted by rap’s predecessors, explored...
- 4/15/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
From performing Coleridge's maritime epic to creating a coastal art-and-poetry installation with glowing tents, True Blood star Fiona Shaw is on a mission to make us love language.
Given the context for my interview with Fiona Shaw, my central question – what is your favourite love poem? – doesn't seem especially tricky or prying. We meet to talk about Peace Camp, an art collaboration with director Deborah Warner and composer Mel Mercier, for which Shaw has been darting across the UK, imploring people to record their favourite love poems – and accosting well-known actors she's bumped into at airports. "Alun Armstrong! Please, will you do it?" She has recorded 570 poems in total, with voices from Cornwall, Northumberland, Wales, the Isle of Skye, and everywhere in between.
And yet Shaw is not easy to pin down. Her words keep hurtling off through exclamations, exhortations, then collapsing in laughter. She revises herself regularly, shouting into my dictaphone: "Don't write that!
Given the context for my interview with Fiona Shaw, my central question – what is your favourite love poem? – doesn't seem especially tricky or prying. We meet to talk about Peace Camp, an art collaboration with director Deborah Warner and composer Mel Mercier, for which Shaw has been darting across the UK, imploring people to record their favourite love poems – and accosting well-known actors she's bumped into at airports. "Alun Armstrong! Please, will you do it?" She has recorded 570 poems in total, with voices from Cornwall, Northumberland, Wales, the Isle of Skye, and everywhere in between.
And yet Shaw is not easy to pin down. Her words keep hurtling off through exclamations, exhortations, then collapsing in laughter. She revises herself regularly, shouting into my dictaphone: "Don't write that!
- 7/18/2012
- by Kira Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
The director-turned-musician turns editor for this week's Film & Music
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Owlyross:
Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which is so stupidly overblown and "epic" that it goes through ridiculous and right back through to awesome.
Five things we learnt from David Lynch's stint as editor
Sometimes a fish will tell you how it wants to be cooked
The block-and-tackle is a mysterious and powerful device
Duran Duran ought to have scored a Hitchcock film
Precisely what will four 21-year-old men from the Ozarks make of Lynch's new album?
Or, for that matter, a blond high-school girl from Columbus, Ohio?
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Justin Bieber turns to Twitter to deny paternity claims
What are Juggalos and should we be scared of them?
The Cure to release Bestival live album
Flaming Lips announce collaboration with Nick Cave
MoMA commissions multimedia work by Antony and the Johnsons
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Owlyross:
Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which is so stupidly overblown and "epic" that it goes through ridiculous and right back through to awesome.
- 11/4/2011
- by Adam Boult
- The Guardian - Film News
Why Watch? Because the combination of animation, experiment, and Welles is a palpable one. In 1977, experimental filmmaker Larry Jordan used work from 19th century French artist Gustave Doré and the thunderous tones of Orson Welles to bring Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s most famous epic poem to life. It’s a potent story of a sea captain who kills an albatross while on the ocean and pays a hefty penalty. But chances are that you already knew that, having had to memorize it for freshman English class in high school. The version here, which is more than a bit different from Raúl daSilva’s 1975 take, is surreal at times but also direct. The engravings are wonderful, but there’s no denying that Welles is the star. What does it cost? Just 40 minutes of your time. Check out The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for yourself: The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (1977) Trust us. You...
- 8/13/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Final FrontierIron Maiden EMIRating: ***I have been an Iron Maiden fan for a long time and I find it difficult to find fault with them. This album, their 15th, is an epic. At over 75 minutes, it is the band’s longest album to date. It is going to take some serious listening to, particularly because most of the songs are more than seven minutes long. The longest song on this album is also the band’s longest until now. When The Wild Wind Blows has a ten-minute runtime after earlier epics like Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and Sign of ...
- 8/23/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
What can you say about a movie called Evilution? The title alone dictates one of two feelings the viewer will have about this movie. Either it will be a "so bad, it's good" movie, one in which the absurdness of the film is recognized and is played as such, or it will be a "so bad, it is really bad" movie. If I went by the first 5 minutes of the movie, I would have gone with the first option, but then the real movie kicked in and, unfortunately, it becomes the latter. this dreck is played straight as an arrow, serious and earnest, when it needed to be a hamfest of the highest order.
The plot, if you want to call it that, centers on a scientist and Captain named Darren Hall, the sole survivor of the opening scene. Hall, who escapes the blood and carnage of an army facility...
The plot, if you want to call it that, centers on a scientist and Captain named Darren Hall, the sole survivor of the opening scene. Hall, who escapes the blood and carnage of an army facility...
- 12/9/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Eric Mayo)
- Fangoria
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