New acquirements
Feb. 1st, 2006 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartSecond entry today, because I had choir meeting and am still feeling talkative...
I've been talking about cartoons and animated movies lately, right? Okay, I bought Fehérlófia on DVD today. It's an animated movie by Marcell Jankovics - the one chosen one of the 50 best animated movies ever on the Los Angeles Festival for such things a few years ago.
Fehérlófia (meaning the son of the white horse) is the main hero of one of the pagan Hungarian myths of our people's origins. In the form we have inherited it, is just a folk tale. Jankovics, just like with the Magic Hind, made a visual myth of it.
I freely admit that the visual word of Jankovics needs a lot of getting used to. It's an acquired taste, as it is highly disturbing, to put it mildly. It also requires an intimate knowledge of ancient Hungarian myths - which I actually do have - and even so, one doesn't understand half the time what one sees. But it is eerily beautiful, nevertheless, rich in symbols and motives of Hungarian folk art. I particularly liked the sequence of childbirth presented in the form of a blossom opening - while you could see that it was childbirth, all the time.
Take a look for yourself here:
http://www.mediaguide.hu/pannoniafilm/jankovicsm.html
and here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417757/
I bought another DVD, a historic rock opera by Levente Szörényi and János Bródy, the authors of the famous István, a király. It's sort of a continuation. It doesn't even come close to their first piece - I think they should stop trying to write another opera, their Attila the Hun play is fairly horrible, too - but at least the actors play it well. I guess, you can catch lightning in a bottle only once. But the folk dance sequences are pretty, and the shamans are properly creepy.
I think I'll buy the Attila play, too, despite the music being rather crap. Gyula Vikidál, who plays the main role, is a powerful figure, and it might give me inspiration, at the very least. Besides, there are certain pieces of patriotic art one ought to own, even if they aren't always that grand where the "art" part is considered.
I've been talking about cartoons and animated movies lately, right? Okay, I bought Fehérlófia on DVD today. It's an animated movie by Marcell Jankovics - the one chosen one of the 50 best animated movies ever on the Los Angeles Festival for such things a few years ago.
Fehérlófia (meaning the son of the white horse) is the main hero of one of the pagan Hungarian myths of our people's origins. In the form we have inherited it, is just a folk tale. Jankovics, just like with the Magic Hind, made a visual myth of it.
I freely admit that the visual word of Jankovics needs a lot of getting used to. It's an acquired taste, as it is highly disturbing, to put it mildly. It also requires an intimate knowledge of ancient Hungarian myths - which I actually do have - and even so, one doesn't understand half the time what one sees. But it is eerily beautiful, nevertheless, rich in symbols and motives of Hungarian folk art. I particularly liked the sequence of childbirth presented in the form of a blossom opening - while you could see that it was childbirth, all the time.
Take a look for yourself here:
http://www.mediaguide.hu/pannoniafilm/jankovicsm.html
and here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417757/
I bought another DVD, a historic rock opera by Levente Szörényi and János Bródy, the authors of the famous István, a király. It's sort of a continuation. It doesn't even come close to their first piece - I think they should stop trying to write another opera, their Attila the Hun play is fairly horrible, too - but at least the actors play it well. I guess, you can catch lightning in a bottle only once. But the folk dance sequences are pretty, and the shamans are properly creepy.
I think I'll buy the Attila play, too, despite the music being rather crap. Gyula Vikidál, who plays the main role, is a powerful figure, and it might give me inspiration, at the very least. Besides, there are certain pieces of patriotic art one ought to own, even if they aren't always that grand where the "art" part is considered.
