Live, he will likely play songs only from Crow and Now Only. Overall, though, Elverum is a person and musician fundamentally changed by his wife’s death. Elverum’s learned that life is random, but on Now Only, he righteously declares that he’s important because of his daughter–not because of his own mythology. He’s got the most perspective on “Distortion”, recalling watching a documentary about Jack Kerouac bathing in his own mythology, drinking, ignoring his daughter. But what makes me think Elverum is moving forward is both actual references to “light” on the album but also candid, straightforward, and frank descriptions of death. 2′s “The Moon” that A Crow Looked At Me’s “Soria Moria” did. “Distortion” and “Earth”’s gruff guitars recall the black metal of Wind’s Poem. Opener “Tintin In Tebet” re-purposes the same melody from The Glow Pt. Over six songs, Elverum expands his andĬastrée’s story from the beginning until the empty end and gives a little indication of what the future will hold.įirst and foremost, the music: Like A Crow Looked At Me, it exists within the realm of his life as a member of The Microphones and Mount Eerie, but unlike its predecessor, its fuller aesthetic actually recalls some of those albums. The absurdity of Elverum’s situation–touring the record, still smack dab in the middle of grieving, all the while taking care of his daughter–is illustrated with equal color and tears on the new Now Only. An album that did not identify as art–in painstaking detail, it captured Elverum’s grieving process with regard to his late wife Geneviève Castrée–was nonetheless heralded as one of the finest pieces of art released last year, by critics and fans alike. Last year, it must have been weird for Phil Elverum to tour Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked At Me. Now being redeveloped, sets for Todd Haynes’ 2002 Far From Heaven were built here, and it’s also hosted filming for Steven Spielberg’s War Of The Worlds, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and The Bourne Ultimatum).Mount Eerie Live Preview: 6/26, Thalia Hall, Chicago Studio filming was at the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, formerly the Military Ocean Terminal, a military base off the east coast of Bayonne in New York Bay. John Nash finally receives his Nobel Prize in Prudential Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, New Jersey. The grand mansion, where Nash leaves his top secret code-breaking results, is Tara Circle Irish Cultural Center, Alder Manor, 1061 North Broadway, Grey Oaks, in Yonkers, about 20 miles from NYC, which was seen also in The Royal Tenenbaums, Mona Lisa Smile and, um, Flesh For The Beast (from the acclaimed director of The Sexy Sixth Sense and Lord Of The G-Strings). The Governor’s ball was filmed in Lenfell Hall of Florham Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Avenue, in Madison, New Jersey. The college was also used as the hospital. The famous ’Great Dome’ of ‘MIT’ is the Gould Memorial Library of Bronx Community College, 2155 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. The lab exterior is a wing of the Center for Molecular Medicine, 520 Belleville Avenue, in BelleVille, north of Newark, New Jersey. There is no ‘Wheeler Defense Laboratory’ at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – and anyway, the film didn’t shoot in Cambridge. ‘Harvard University’ is Manhattan College, 4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Riverdale, New York, and Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, on New York’s Upper East Side, supplied further college scenes. The aerial shot of the Pentagon is real, but the ‘Pentagon’ office is Keating Hall, Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, 441 East Fordham Road, in the Bronx. The house of John and Alicia Nash ( Jennifer Connelly) is 100 Grand Street, at Washington Street, Paulus Hook, in Jersey City. The filming is in New Jersey and around New York. Yes, it is Princeton University, New Jersey, where scenes were filmed at Holder Hall, County Road 571, during three separate visits, as the movie was shot largely in sequence. And James Horner’s score raises the possibility that perhaps Princeton University is going to hit an iceberg. Ron Howard’s film puts the struggle of brilliant mathematician John Nash ( Russell Crowe) through the Hollywood blender and – hey presto – nabs the Triumph over Adversity Oscars (Best Picture, Best Direction). In the movies there’s no affliction, physical or mental, that can’t be overcome by sheer willpower and the lurve of a good woman.
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