December 4 movie: Man with a Movie Camera. I know, I just saw this a month ago. But the DVD just arrived so I had to watch it. Well, I thought I had done a pretty good job of synching the soundtrack and the movie, but I was way off. What I didn't know was that the soundtrack doesn't start up for three minutes; the first few minutes of the movie are silent. Plus a couple of tracks are twice as long in the movie as in the CD. No wonder nothing synched up. It almost felt like watching a different movie this time. Really: this was my third time watching the movie and I kept seeing new stuff and wondering if it had been added for this DVD. Which is kind of weird, because obviously they didn't add any footage. I guess that's the power of a good soundtrack.
There are some DVD extras: a couple of Cinematic Orchestra videos, which I'm sure I'll be more interested in watching when I haven't just seen the same music in the movie, and a short "making of" which I watched the first few minutes, but it was boring so I turned it off.
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