Sentences with phrase «among film and music»

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With sales of recorded music withering, the hot idea among record labels was to sign artists to so - called 360 deals, where a company didn't just release a band's recordings, but promoted the concerts, sold the merchandise, and shared in profits from websites, fan clubs and film deals.

posts on ALMOST FAMOUS, two on the SCHOOL OF ROCK, and an epic one on THE DOORS, I do think that among my list of pop - music films, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is the standout in terms of sheer cinematic achievement, with only AMERICAN GRAFFITI giving it a run for the money.

posts on ALMOST FAMOUS, two on the SCHOOL OF ROCK, and an epic one on THE DOORS, I do think that among my list of pop - music films, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is the standout in terms of sheer....

Illustrative of this is the tendency among film production companies and recorded music producers to concentrate on «blockbusters».

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

Mary Field is the actress who played Huntz Hall's sister in the 1941 Universal serial Sea Raiders; the spinsterish sponsor of Danny Kaye's doctoral thesis in A Song of Born (1947); the nice lady standing in Macy's «Santa Claus» line with the little Dutch girl in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); the long - suffering music teacher in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); and Harold Peary's bespectacled vis - a-vis in The Great Gildersleeve (1942)-- to name just four films among hundreds.

Out of time and overbudget, the movie previewed badly and was eventually sliced down to an abrupt 88 minutes (by, among others, editor Robert Wise, who would go on to direct such films as West Side Story and The Sound of Music).

Adapted from a well - known short story by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting is also a remake of the modest but genuinely creepy 1963 film directed by workmanlike industry veteran Robert Wise, who counts among his many credits the editing of Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons and Oscars for the helming of West Side Story and The Sound of Music.

Among many others, the scene with The Dude morphed onto a bowling ball and rolling down the lane - between the legs of a horde of beautiful women - and to some groovin» music - may be the funniest and most surreal thing I've ever seen in film.

Released across several formats — among them, Disney Digital 3 - D, RealD 3D, IMAX and IMAX 3D — Beauty and the Beast was scored by Alan Menken, who composed music for the 1991 animated film.

They are best known, at least among film music fans, for their reconstructions and rerecordings of many classic scores on the Marco Polo label, featuring works by Korngold, Waxman, Tiomkin and others.

There are a couple of familiar key tracks here (Hank Levy «s, which gives the film its title, and Duke Ellington «s «Caravan,» among them), but an overwhelming amount of the music in the film is original and from composer Justin Hurwitz, who played in a band with Chazelle at Harvard.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

The music in the film is provided by Ry Cooder, who is a tremendous slide guitarist and has worked with some of the all - time greats in the music business — The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison and Neil Young, among others.

Grammy - winner T Bone Burnett produced the film's soundtrack which includes music performed by, among others, Oscar Isaac, Marcus Mumford and Justin Timberlake.

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T Bone Burnett produced the film's soundtrack that includes music performed by, among others, Isaac, Marcus Mumford, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan.

Among other things, they discuss filming locations, edits, music, and audience reactions.

The film focuses on a handful of the city's musicians, including Micha Biton, whose music is heavily influenced by Moroccan sounds; singer Hagit Yaso, whose parents emigrated from Ethiopia and who sings in Hebrew, English and Arabic, among other languages; Teapacs, a band whose members have Tunisian, Moroccan, Romanian, Syrian, Polish, Russian and Yemenite heritage and whose album sales exceed 300,000; and Avi Vaknin, a singer, composer and music producer who for many years managed Sderock, a music club and educational center for teenagers.

Founded in 2001 by composer Elmer Bernstein, the Film Music Foundation has supported the Film Music Program since 2013, which aims to foster greater appreciation for film composition and greater diversity among artists who are pursuing film composition as a viable, sustainable career path and an opportunity to reach wide audiences.

That led to further strong work with «I Am Slave» and «The Arbor,» before Escott went solo to work on «Shame,» his bookending pieces (while reminiscent of Hans Zimmer «s «The Thin Red Line» score in places) for that picture were among the most memorable bits of film music of that year.

Easily the largest city among our list of expensive housing markets in Texas, Austin is both the seat of state government and a cultural hub for live music and film.

Tupiniquim is about the experience of being in Brazil, our cook only makes regional Brazilian food, our film selection has an emphasis for Brazilian cult films, the music that we play is selected among the best in Brazil, we call it «brasilidade» in Portuguese and our goal is to make you feel that b

Culture vultures among you should be sure to check out the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which houses one of New York's best theatres, as well as putting on films, music and other cultural evMusic, which houses one of New York's best theatres, as well as putting on films, music and other cultural evmusic and other cultural events.

Thus, it was among the very first American institutions to embrace the then emergent fields of video and performance art, while also presenting new visionary work within the fields of dance, music, literature, and film.

Ola is the Creator & Director of The Free Black Women's Library, an interactive mobile trading library that features a collection of 600 books written by Black women, performance, readings, film screenings, workshops and critical conversations that has taken place at MOCADA, the Studio Museum of Harlem, Concord Church, the Afro Punk Music Festival, Community Future Lab, Bedstuy Pride, and Weeksville Heritage Center, among other places.

Through conversation with artists from a variety of geographic locations we will consider a variety of questions, including: the relationship between animation and other media; contemporary artists» engagement with the histories of art and film; the role of music; the differences among various forms of animation; and animation's treatment of history, time, and place.

Included among the more than 300 items on view — artworks, film clips, music scores, audio recordings, documentary photographs, snapshots, performance props and costumes, ephemera, and correspondence — are 5 cello - based sculptural works that Moorman herself created.

An American living in France, Cameron Jamie uses music, photography, drawing, film, and video to investigate the quirky, ritualistic activities that are part of contemporary pop culture (wrestling and craftslike mask - making being among his current interests).

Among his best - known works are Acid Brass (1997), which fused traditional brass - band music with acid house, and The Battle of Orgreave (2001), a filmed re-enactment of the notorious conflict between miners and the police during the 1984 — 5 miners» strike.

He created and programmed PLACE, the annual cross-platform festival at Aldeburgh Music, is Co-Director of production agency Artevents and has curated numerous film and event seasons across the UK (e.g. J.G.Ballard, Portugal, Roma Cinema, Armenia) at the Barbican, ICA, Institut Francais, Arnolfini and Watershed among many others).

Funded entirely by personal contributions from community members, these grants promote artistic growth among all genres including visual art, dance, literature, performance, digital media, music, critical writing, independent curatorial projects, film, and video.

Incorporating footage from a wide variety of sources — from countdown leaders and coming attractions to training films and newsreels — and adding later his own 16 mm film footage, Conner developed a quick - cut method of editing which defined his oeuvre, and coupled with his use of pop music soundtracks, made films like COSMIC RAY (1961) and BREAKAWAY (1966) among the earliest precursors of the music video.

As in Sasnal's short films, the influences of music video and poststructuralist cinema combine to evoke «personal cinema» — the privately produced short films which proliferated among Polish artists during the Communist regime, and which often overlaid the banal details of life with whimsical fantasies.

Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.

A «living exhibition» encouraging cross-disciplinary collaborations among artists from different backgrounds, Station to Station takes over the Barbican's indoor and outdoor spaces for 30 days, drawing together an inspiring and diverse fusion of international and UK - based artists from the world of contemporary art, music, dance, graphic design and film — much of it created live in the space.

Public Program and Education The Stedelijk continues its multi-faceted program of activities and events, featuring: performances by acclaimed artists such as Matt Mullican and Ben Kinmont; film evenings with Fiona Tan, Morgan Fisher and Laura Mulvey (among others); Gallery Talks by experts such as Ann Goldstein, Sven Lütticken and Susanne Figner Ruembeli; Collection Close - Ups with curators and conservators sharing their latest research, with Jiro Kamata, Reesa Greenberg, Julia Robinson and others; lectures by artists such as Bert Theis, The Yes Men, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas and Teresa Margolles; book presentations; symposia; live music and much more.

PERFORMA founder RoseLee Goldberg, who pioneered the study of performance art with her seminal book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present (1979), presents an authoritative introduction addressing the genre's many forms — radio broadcast, dance, live installation, new technologies, film and video, music, historic reconstructions and lecture - as - performance among them.