If this was Bechard's first film as a director, as it seems to be, it's not bad considering that.

There's some good music by XTC and Hunters & Gatherers. Sometimes scenes play without dialogue or environmental sound, serving as little more than music video montage scenes. Lots of pop/rock songs on the soundtrack. Here, he's a cop talking to someone, a journalist? Oddly, he's shot against a white wall, and wears the same shirt in scenes supposed to be taking place on different days. As in Gorman Bechard's other movies, Carmine Capobianco talks to the camera. He has scored some of the past decade’s other unforgettably unorthodox films, such as Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, and David O. I'm not sure if he is significant or not. Jon Brion has brought a singular musical voice to Paul Thomas Anderson’s films Hard Eight, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love. An old man in a black hat and black coat who was seen at the beginning of the movie shows up again at the end. A restless night Alicia has is depicted through a series of black & white photographs. The movie gets a little odd after the killer is dealt with by the police. The calls may or may not be related to the killer.

Alicia is getting strange phone calls: nobody there, or horrible sounds, or overhearing other people's phone calls. Meanwhile, an odd but polite young man tries to date Alicia, a young woman who is working at a video store. Someone is killing young women in a small town we don't see the killings or bodies until the killer is identified. “I find it frustrating that no matter how many times I tear off my nametag, certain journalists keep slapping it back on me as though the only thing I ever did was play acoustic music,” Smith told Rolling Stone in 2000, “even though the last two records I’ve made have essentially been emulating a band.Not very good, but somewhat watchable.

Even after he’d boldly embraced a vibrant sound complete with strings and horns on 1998’s XO, and taken a one-man-band approach on portions of his prior LPs, he was still having to make a case for his own versatility. Figure 8 - the final album he released during his lifetime, which came out 20 years ago, on April 18th, 2000 - showed how the rich yet tasteful settings he crafted with co-producers Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf only highlighted the gemlike beauty of his songs.īut the idea of Smith as an indie-folk bard hung around. Pretty much every singer-songwriter who achieves any kind of success on their own eventually struggles with the same question: Keep things spare, or scale up, trying out a lusher sonic palette? Some who take the latter route stumble, but Elliott Smith soared.

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