Sentences with phrase «first about musicians»

My first film was a documentary called They Will Have to Kill Us First about musicians in Mali, Africa who were trying to bring music back to their country after Sharia Law made music illegal.

Not exact matches

At their first meeting, in 1962, Martin, a classically trained musician, lectured the band about how they'd have to make many changes to become successful recording artists.

Talk to just about any successful musician who started their career in the»60s,»70s, or»80s and you'll find out that their first contract was terribly one - sided.

► Cardinal Timothy Dolan sent the mayor a CD of «Ave Maria» by Vittorio Grigolo while jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, sent a book about the first 25 years of jazz at Lincoln Center and a CD titled «The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis.»

In his first comedy special, the popular comic actor and musician reveals edgy, honest tales of his failed attempts at being a gangster, his humble roots, marriage, fatherhood and his thoughts about Eminem.

If [the cover of Dennis Linde's «Burning Love»] the first reason to check in on this collection, which went largely unnoticed when Warner Bros. released it, the reason to stay with it is the exquisite melancholy the Alabama - reared musician invests in just about everything he sings.

We watch as she attends dances; falls into and out of the school drama club; agonizes about college; has fun with — and then starts drifting apart from — her straight - laced best friend (Beanie Feldstein); smokes weed for the first time; fights with her family; and dips her toes into her first romance, crushing hard on both a very polite Irish Catholic boy (Manchester By The Sea's Lucas Hedges) and a too - cool - for - school musician (Timothée Chalamet, breakout star of the upcoming Call Me By Your Name).

«Reel Chicago» will include Raul Zaritsky and Linda Williams's Maxwell Street Blues (1981), about the musicians who shaped the city's electric - blues sound as they performed in the legendary open - air market; Tom Palazzolo's Chicago, which collects key short works by the veteran city chronicler; The Films of Gordon Weisenborn, a quartet of half - hour educational films by the little - known director; and The People vs. Paul Crump (1965), a profile of the death - row inmate turned novelist that was one of the first films by director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).

The first of the two films on this list about troubled musicians, Love & Mercy is surprisingly sprightly biopic about the life of Brian Wilson.

Cagney's a great actor, of course, but both he and Day seemed totally lacking in energy, as did the direction by Charles Vidor — I swear there were only two camera setups through the first 30 + minutes of he film: Day on stage in a flat composition in front of musicians and a solid color backdrop with neither camera nor actors moving much at all and Day and Cagney in her dressing room arguing about something.

In the first year Earth Day that has gathered attention in Latin America, a couple of the region's biggest musicians, actors and performers have participated in a campaign held by National Geographic to raise awareness in society about our part in the

Let's be honest, this isn't the first blog or even the first TreeHugger post about the mellow, eco-loving musician, and it's not likely to be the last.

In the first year Earth Day that has gathered attention in Latin America, a couple of the region's biggest musicians, actors and performers have participated in a campaign held by National Geographic to raise awareness in society about our part in the global warming cause.