It's an extraordinary film. rushthatspeaks describes it as true magical realism. I said about five minutes in, "This is like Bradbury narrated by an alien." There are three or four different cinematographies in the film and they do not map where you think they should—they are different ways of looking at the town, but they don't tell you what they are. There are absolutely inexplicable things in Virgil, Texas and there are things that are so recognizable they hurt. The film doesn't have a fourth wall. It just has David Byrne.
Speaking of non-bootleg, I think I managed to tell derspatchel that this existed, but not you.
I started looking for DVDs as soon as I got home from New York . . . I was glad to see this one exists in a pinch, but if Criterion has just done a restoration of the original print (postdating this transfer, which looks from comments as though it is not of the best), I'm willing to hold out for their version.
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It's an extraordinary film.
Speaking of non-bootleg, I think I managed to tell derspatchel that this existed, but not you.
I started looking for DVDs as soon as I got home from New York . . . I was glad to see this one exists in a pinch, but if Criterion has just done a restoration of the original print (postdating this transfer, which looks from comments as though it is not of the best), I'm willing to hold out for their version.