Werckmeister Harmonies @ BAM

[Dave Monroe]

On 6/27/08, János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, to close the circuits, the script for WH (2000) was written by László
> Krasznahorkai, sandwiched between a journey to the Balkans (post-war
> Sarajevo) and one to China. It was based on his own novel The Melancholy of
> Resistance (1989), followed by the Prisoner of Urga (1992), about a fictive
> journey to the East (China and then getting stuck in Mongolia). To top all
> this, Krasznahorkai is an avowed Pynchon fan (though the influence is not
> very strong). Like in an interview from 2000: "For Thomas Pynchon, who,
> after all, has been the single most important figure in world literature
> since Thomas Bernhard's death,  crisis does not derive from tradition and
> the very existence of the next moment, but from human being as an element
> which destroys tradition and the next moment", whatever he meant by that.

The novel's worth reading as well.  But this was one of those films
that made me think, maybe Gravity's Rainbow: Now a Major Motion
Picture ISN'T quite so far-fetched after all.  And a noteworthy score
as well, a rarity these days ...