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Last Post 1/14/2008 2:23 PM by  Wicker
Sigur Ros - Heima
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starbelgrade
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12/19/2007 6:39 AM
    .. I saw the feature on this on the BBC arts show - it looks amazing & it landed in my letter box this morning (courtesy of the now-tax-paying CD-WoW!)... anyone seen it yet?
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    12/19/2007 8:34 AM
    No, I was going to go to it in the IFI, but it was gone before I got to it. Tell us more...
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    12/20/2007 2:49 AM
    Oh... I haven't watched it yet - I plan to do so on Friday, by the fire, with a nice bottle of red! I finish work on Friday & don't have a PC at home, so I'm afraid the review will have to wait till the new year!

    (Oh & Happy Xmas everyone..!!)
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    1/6/2008 8:54 AM
    Yeah, This Culture Show (BBC2) special on the film and the band was repeated last Friday night. This film truly looks amazing: the landscape of Iceland in conjunction with the music of Sigur Ros has a really powerful effect on the viewer. Gonna buy it this week. It's the first time I have seen the band interviewed, (well 2 of them anyway!) completely unaffected, normal and quite shy blokes that is at odds the otherworldly nature of their music. A unique band, all told.
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    1/7/2008 2:13 AM
    I feel almost guilty for not having watched it yet... was doing a lot of recording over the holidays - interspersed with much drinking & eating sessions! Also got FIFA08, which is a MAJOR distraction... it's f**king nigh on impossible to get even a nil all draw on the "world class" setting!

    That interview was really cool though.. the beeb could do with making more shows like that.
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    1/14/2008 4:07 AM
    You gotta admit that Sigur Ros are not "everyday listening"... their music suits night time listening, or the twilight hours, so it did take events to conspire for me to watch this film (ie., a boring Sat night in the house, nowt on the box & a brand new TV dying to be checked out!).

    The DVD is actually 2 discs.. Disc 2, a more "straightforward" gig CD, showing concert footage from the free gigs they played around Iceland in 2006, while Disc 1 is almost a "rock-u-mentary", though unlike any one I've ever seen before. The film cuts between the live performances, interviews with band members, beautiful landscape photography & a lot of "portrait" shots of the audiences... from kids to OAPs & documents a country that seems worlds apart from what I know.

    The live performances are all superb... all set in very different locations, from community centres to disused warehouses to valleys on hillsides. Apart from the final gig in Rekyavik, everything is so much the anthithesis of the "rock" video.. there are no security staff in neon jackets, no barriers in front of the stages (where stages are used), kids wander freely, playing amongst the adults, who sit around campfires, mostly looking like they could be in Woodstock.. there's a huge sense of freedom about the events. One gig sees the band play a coffee shop, where families are sat round tables, drinking tea, eating biscuits & watching the band. In that way, it's a film that focuses as much on the icelandic people as the band themeselves.. there's a section in which they follow a local who makes marimbas from pieces of stone he finds from a quarry, which the band then play with him as they jam in a cave! There's the local brass band who join them onstage... so many glimpses & insights into the local cultures. It's a very human film, touching, but never cliched, epic but still humble. A triumph of a film.
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    1/14/2008 2:23 PM
    got this over the Christmas.
    It's an audio/visual treat
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