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.
Not exact matches
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.
Even his
music in lower - key
films, like the Keira Knightley romance «Last Night,» turned out to be
among the composer's highlights.
Among the number of reviews I've seen of this
film highlighting it's take on «white trash», I'm not sure this would be the kind of
music they would really listen to.
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.
And Stan impresses as a portrait of beta - male monstrousness; there's a complicated nasty «nice guy» character, a meek abuser, that might have interestingly been expanded upon here
among the
film's he - said, she - said comic abuse sequences in which Harding and Gillooly beat up on one another for broad laughs to the sound of 1970s pop
music needledrops.
T Bone Burnett produced the
film's soundtrack that includes
music performed by,
among others, Isaac, Marcus Mumford, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan.
To those that aren't inclined to like a movie like this, never really enjoying
filmed plays, musicals, or
films with overt messages that come across like heavy - handed Public Service Announcements more than real stories about real people, you'll probably want to avoid this, as the
music not only is unrelenting, it is the sole source of conversation
among characters for most scenes.
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.
Among the
film composers who've incorporated the often - mystical sounds of ancient ethnic
music into western civilization's more straight - laced approach to movie scoring, the creative explorations of Mychael Danna has managed to turn soundtracks into a state of Zen.
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 ev
Music, which houses one of New York's best theatres, as well as putting on
films,
music and other cultural ev
music and other cultural events.
Among anime film composers working today that also write music for videogames, Kenji Kawai is among the most internationally recogn
Among anime
film composers working today that also write
music for videogames, Kenji Kawai is
among the most internationally recogn
among the most internationally recognized.
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 of the exhibition are: «The Living Need Light, the Dead Need
Music» (2014), a
film that follows funerary traditions of the Mekong Delta.
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.