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    Irascible, thanks for your always-devastating comments which, ironically, brought to mind something concerning the main virtue you point out concerning The Sixth Sense - the entire basic concept is lifted from a great, but obscure low-budget film called "Carnival of Souls," with changes made mainly in the characters.

    Has anyone seen that? It is now available in a great DVD release from Criterion Collection. A black and white film from the early 60s that has a number of scenes that are more surreal than Bunuel, and extremely haunting. It also has a brilliant music score, played on pipe organ. A beautiful example of how low budget can be an inspiration for real creativity.
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    @William said:

    Irascible, thanks for your always-devastating comments which, ironically, brought to mind something concerning the main virtue you point out concerning The Sixth Sense - the entire basic concept is lifted from a great, but obscure low-budget film called "Carnival of Souls," with changes made mainly in the characters.

    Has anyone seen that? It is now available in a great DVD release from Criterion Collection. A black and white film from the early 60s that has a number of scenes that are more surreal than Bunuel, and extremely haunting. It also has a brilliant music score, played on pipe organ. A beautiful example of how low budget can be an inspiration for real creativity.


    I just watched "Carnival of Souls" at

    http://www.ppccinema.com/nshowmovie.html?movieid=16

    The organ soundtrack is fun and at 07m:02s you see the organ

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    I'm watching it right now. Great link, great film! Love the score - very hip actually.

    Edit: I wish William and others would list the top ten or twenty films like this that are "must-see." I would hate to miss out on any gems like this.

    A new thread for this would be great.
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    Angelo Clematide:

    “The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.”

    Could very well be, maybe straight out from his Charles Eliot Norton chair of poetics lectures at Harvard College in 1939/40
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    Sixth Sense was ruined for me because I watched an Italian comedy called La Cosi é la Vita about a month before and it uses a similar idea.
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    "Così è la vita" ---> the soundtrack or the plot, or both?
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    Cosi e la Vita (That's Life) has a similar twist in the plot. I don't believe the music is similar at all.
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    I guess neither you nor Angelo saw Carnival of Souls, made in 1962,  which is the exact same story with different characters.
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