Anybody in London catch any of the season at the NFT? I saw three, L'Avventura, L'Eclisse and Red Desert (with Richard Harris) and was whelmed in a big way. That bleak, antiseptic, neurotic aesthetic: totally Ballard innit? All those factories, airstrips, radar stations, mysterious islands, desolate empty streetscapes and modernist apartments. The montage at the end of L'Eclisse predicts most of David Lynch. The way he uses sound too is very Lynchian: those strange extra-diegetic synthesized noises in Red Desert, anybody know who was responsible for those? Reminded me of Henri Chopin.