[joe-frank-list] 'Nightride'
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Wed Dec 23 10:01:46 PST 2020
Taxi driver (Tim Jerome?), driving his cab too fast, points
out the power plant; because it sells all its electricity they use
candles inside.
2:00: Vorst (sp?) and Funk (sp?) menacingly interrogate Alex.
They want him to confess to setting off a bomb in the industrial
district.
12:00: Alex talks about missing something from his life.
12:50: Someone talks about the futility of questions.
14:30: Someone talks about alternating current of physicality
and spirituality creating tension.
16:40: Guy makes waking-up noises.
18:10: Guy with accent (Tim Jerome?) talks about interrogators
trying to get him to confess.
19:30: Vorst and Funk interrogate Alex more, ask about his
sick mother, summer camp.
25:30: Alex wonders what's important in life. Another fellow
tells him there are 5 important things: a clean mind, a strong heart,
soap, almonds, and manganese. Then that fellow lists things we have
to do before other things.
28:50: A psychologist (a Black man?) talks to someone who,
police officers allege, threatened to kill his wife and children. He
prays that he not do anything crazy (re-used in 'Predator')
33:00: The taxi driver loves to drive a cab (from the sound
effects, at very high speed)
34:20: Vorst tells about going horseback riding with a woman.
35:50: Vorst tells about how talking in person, appearances
distract; on the phone, there are no distractions.
36:30: Vorst tries to get Alex to confess, talks about how
great confession is, cites Galileo and Augustine. Vorst tries to stop
Funk from getting violent.
41:50: A woman talks about what she likes. Another woman says
she's better off without a lover.
45:10: Vorst tells Alex life is not a progression of events,
then talks nonsense for a few minutes.
50:20: A guy tells about a dream in which he realized he had a
final exam for a course he had never attended.
52: Music ('Six marimbas') and scat singing - 'dee-dee-dee' and
some nonsense syllables.
cast: Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Alan Hunter, Lester
Nafzger, Annalee Jefferies, F. Murray Abraham, Arthur Miller, Joe
Frank
music: 'Six Marimbas' (Steve Reich). 'The Sinking of the Titanic'
(Gavin Bryars), 'Flowered Knife Shadows' (Harold Budd)
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