Now remastered (for once, the sound being both brittle and big, that null word has value) and reissued with added rarities (as is its sublime 1989 successor, Hats), its hopeful melancholy transcends its era like an Edward Hopper painting.
His work is filled with the sweet melancholy of an era, but remains timeless in its ability to resonate with contemporary audiences.
Among Vietnamese Americans, Vo is considered one of the diaspora's towering literary minds, someone with an eye for the melancholy of the era, a writer who captured the rich detail of the culture, Vietnamese village life and the war itself.
Mr. Lagerfeld seemed to have caught the end-of-an-era melancholy of this troubled fashion season.
Discarding a score by the Hollywood veteran Alex North, Kubrick used preëxisting classical recordings throughout, juxtaposing Ligeti's otherworldliness with the Viennese grace of Johann Strauss II's "On the Beautiful Blue Danube," the post-Wagnerian bombast of Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra," and the Soviet-era melancholy of the Adagio from Khachaturian's "Gayane".
So, apparently, did Jarmusch, which is why Only Lovers Left Alive luxuriates in a curious end-of-an-era melancholy, as if he'd set out at once to make the last ever vampire movie and cinema's last ever love story.
For those inveterate sufferers in the stands there was frustration, disappointment and a sense of bleak Soviet-era melancholy; but what were the other 87? Fast-forward 11 years and while that mindset often still prevails, the basis for despair no longer exists.
A handsome but brooding knight, he could have been the melancholy hero of a 19th-century ballet of the Romantic era.
They nod to Kraftwerk, Orbital, funky 80s pop and the golden age of disco, while Roxy Music-like dancefloor ennui nestles comfortably against a masterful juggling of ecstasy and melancholy that recalls peak-era New Order.
What we said: "They nod to Kraftwerk, Orbital, funky 80s pop and the golden age of disco, while Roxy Music-like dancefloor ennui nestles comfortably against a masterful juggling of ecstasy and melancholy that recalls peak-era New Order," wrote Dave Simpson, in the Guardian.
To establish the multifacets of the movement, a poetry reading — melancholy and romantic as the era demanded — intones above a painting by James McNeill Whistler, "Symphony in White," of an auburn-haired innocent, in her white dress against a white curtain, standing on a bear-head rug.
