The other sort of deadbeat faction - they decide they’re going to cheer for croquette, table tennis, what else? Golf.Īnd its pretty amazing because it got me thinking you know, in spite of the sort of oddness of the context, these cheerleaders being at unusual sporting events, it got me thinking of the notion of the periphery of encouragement we have in our life. Theres like the loser faction, and then the preppy winner faction and the loser faction because the preppy winner faction of cheerleaders is already like rooting for football and basketball and all that. And you know the story - we’ve all seen that movie. So we were watching Bring It On 2 on the bus last week. and what the liner notes describe as “an S&M dirge.” Anyone who doubts Stevens’ legitimate enjoyment of something as paint-by-numbers as the direct-to-DVD Bring It On sequel need look to a speech he delivered during a show at The Chicago Theater in 2015 ( via quick-transcribing Redditor Chudaroo): Still, somewhere in the schlock of Hellraiser III, he found heart. I think what we’re doing is almost a descriptive analysis of the language that we receive from all these pop culture sources.”īut there’s true cinéaste fandom at the heart of A Beginner’s Mind: Stevens admits to being a big horror guy, and having terrible taste in movies. I think it’s not so much that we’re winking and being self-conscious about it. Sometimes we would just stumble upon a phrase in a film that was so ridiculous that we wanted to somehow work it in. “I was almost like a tempering of extremes. “I think that for us to make critiques of these films and to be dead serious about it, it required that we work these little moments of comic relief into it,” he said. Stevens resists the idea that A Beginner’s Mind is “about” the movies rather, he and De Augustine refer to them in the GQ interview as catalysts for “a new cinematic experience.” “Lacrimae” - Lacrimae rerum (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1962) “Cimmerian Shade” - The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)ġ4. “Fictional California” - Bring It On Again (Damon Santostefano, 2004)ġ3.
“Lost In The World” - The Last Wave (Peter Weir, 1977)ġ2. “It’s Your Own Body And Mind” - She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 1986)ġ1. “(This Is) The Thing” - The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)ġ0. “Murder And Crime” - Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)ĩ. “Olympus” - Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis, 1981)Ĩ. “Beginner’s Mind” - Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)ħ. “You Give Death A Bad Name” - Night of the Living Dead (George A. “The Pillar Of Souls” - Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (Anthony Hickox, 1992)ĥ. “Back To Oz” - Return to Oz (Walter Murch, 1985)Ĥ. “Lady Macbeth In Chains” - All About Eve (Joseph L. “Reach Out” - Wings of Desire, (Wim Wenders, 1987)Ģ. How extreme were Stevens and De Augustine’s viewing habits? Here’s a breakdown of the songs and the movies that inspired them:ġ. The result is a record that reverberates with the haunting melancholy of 2015’s Carrie & Lowell, but with lyrics like “Cenobite seized within the throes / To be released from the Pillar of Souls.” It’s pretty great.
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24, was mostly an accident, erupting from days spent writing songs and nights spent watching whatever they could stream or torrent - “highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between,” as the duo put it in their album notes. In a new interview with GQ, Stevens and De Augustine admit that the cinematic foundation of A Beginner’s Mind, released on Sept. The Lost World.One year after melodically grappling with video games, Sufjan Stevens is back with a new album informed by hours spent watching movies with fellow indie folk/lo-fi musician Angelo De Augustine. The group now have to outwit man and nature to save themselves and the inhabitants of.
The explorers summoned by the natives, reunite to save the land they promised to protect. After a perilous trek, rich with danger and deception, they now have to struggle to survive.The Lost World Several years later, the Lost World is in danger of extinction as an industrialist discovers and begins to destroy it. Accompanied by a skeptical rival, Professor Summerlee, a thrill-seeking journalist, a wealthy lady photographer, a boy stowaway & an exotic native girl, the group find to their amazement that Challenger's claims are true. Show more Show less Undaunted by ridicule from fellow scientists, Professor Challenger leads an expedition to investigate rumoured sightings of prehistoric life in the African jungle.
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