Re: Movie recommendation...not looping, but musical

[Dan Soltzberg <d.ans@rcn.com>]

Title: Re: Movie recommendation...not looping, but musical

Also strongly recommend “The Legend of 1900,” with Tim Roth, if you can find it. I think they’ve stopped distributing it in the US, but it shows up on cable TV every so often. A beautiful film about music.

Dan






on 3/19/05 11:22 AM, David Coffin at dpcoffin@earthlink.net wrote:

> Just saw an amazing film: The Story of the Weeping Camel
> It's on DVD, available thru Netflix...if you have any interest in 
> simple traditional living in the modern world, the power of music in 
> rituals, or if you want to see where a LOT of the inspiration for the 
> desert worlds in Star Wars MUST have come from, check it out...and then 
> go to the website to convince yourself that it wasn't all staged 
> make-believe.
>
> http://www.thinkfilmcompany.com/weepingcamel/index2.html
>
> In short, it's a documentary about nomadic herders in Mongolia: yurts, 
> Gobi Desert, big furry camels, etc. One of their camels gives birth to 
> a colt that she rejects, so the herders call for a violinist to come 
> and perform the reuniting ritual...
>
> dc