Nine Inch Nails - Closer
While there have been plenty of throwbacks to silent film, few have taken the care to bring film back to its origins—namely the grime of the stag film. Rather than creating the nostalgic and sanitized homage to silent film (a la Smashing Pumpkins' Lumiere-driven "Tonight Tonight") "Closer" oozes out from the underbelly of film history. With a dirty, sepia-tinged film-grain setting the tone for Romanek's series of high-brow sadomasochist art allusions, "Closer" gives Trent Reznor the perfect platform to tell the world he wants to f... like an animal. And although the film burns out mid-way through the music video, there are far more images burnt into my mind from the first time I saw "Closer" a decade ago. I can't think of any better film to be placed in the MOMA's permanent collection
[Nate De Young]
from http://www.stylusmagazine.com
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