Danna is a composer at the top
end of the film music spectrum at the moment, one able to bring his own ideas to the table and execute them expertly.
Not exact matches
By the time we see a concert performance
of said
music near the
end of the
film, it's like an entirely new beast has presented itself.
Despite snatches
of songs here and there, it is not until the
end that the
film bursts into a flood
of music with a symphonic performance by Mr. Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Sydney Opera House: a grandiloquent finale in which his agonized introspection finds transcendent release.
By the time Great Balls
of Fire was released, X had announced their breakup (though the band would stage several reunions throughout the 1990s), and while Doe began recording and touring as a solo act, he also devoted an increasing amount
of his time to his acting career, so much so that by the
end of the 1990s Doe's
film work had outstripped
music as his primary livelihood.
Through the personal lives and
music of Sderot's diverse musicians, and the personal narrative
of the filmmaker, who
ends up calling the town home, the
film chronicles the town's trauma and reveals its enduring spirit.
The
film definitely tries to cover as much ground as it can (It begins when Charlie is 5 in a London
music hall and plows through the rest
of his life,
ending shortly before his death in Vevey, Switzerland, on Christmas Day 1977, at the age
of 88) but in doing so abandons depth and development — so much so that the
film inevitably feels like a bunch
of glossy broad strokes.
Similarly the
music choices
of the
film feel intentional, with songs often starting at the tail
end of scenes and bleeding into the next in a way that contrasts rather than unites these scenes.
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music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative
ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image
of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the
films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.
«Empire Records» is a microcosm movie, one
of those
films where in a single day, in a single
music store, every conceivable thing happens to every conceivable character, and at the
end of the day, they are all a lot wiser, as the endless list
of music credits scrolls up the screen.
The fun
music video for Eels» catchy (but profane)
end credits song «Mr. E's Beautiful Blues» (3:53) features most
of the principal cast interacting with the band (and mouthing along) in scenarios inspired by the
film.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner
of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek
Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages
of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop
of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns
of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means
of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the
film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind
of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie
music at the
end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family
of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode
of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
For me, the best viewing experience for this
film would be at the
end of a day long
music festival, outdoors in a field on a beautiful summers evening just after sunset.
Add to this already faulty
film the fact that it is told in quarters, three
of which take place in the 1980s, and you often
end up feeling as if you are watching the basketball game from hell with retro
music on.
The
film has the odd interesting loose -
end, uses
music unpredictably and it is properly grotesque in places, such as the first scene in which we see the Brufort family chewing on the various limbs and body parts
of their victims.
There's that great scene near the
end of the
film where Chris is showing these young musicians old records in his
music shop, introducing them to Mance Lipscomb and the like.
A
music video with that now - classic version
of Tears For Fears» «Mad World» that was used at the
end of the
film
Although other
films might've depicted a fun - filled female - bonding sequence as a throwaway montage backed by an En Vogue song, Story transformed it into a full - fledged
music video set to Bell Biv DeVoe's 1990 mega-hit «Poison,» complete with MTV - and BET - style corner - screen
end credits, resulting in one
of Think Like a Man Too's most memorable scenes.
It was a very bad year for Hollywood
films, and not much better for so - called U.S. «independents», with Whiplash being arguably the most overrated
film of the year, totally misrepresenting both jazz
music and jazz education, while typifying in its Hollywood -
ending what is wrong with Sundance existing as a professional calling - card festival.
DVD Extras:
Music videos for «Iron Man» by Nico Vega and «Fade» by Egyptian, the
film's trailer, a selection
of deleted scenes including an equally unsatisfying alternate
ending and a mind numbing audio commentary with writer / director Matthew Leutwyler, director
of photography David Jones and writer Gillian Vigman.
I think that for who is listening and watching the
film, it takes you back to the beginning, and somehow that scene [where the
music is used again] is the beginning
of the story, because the plot
of the
film is really the
end.
Though the
film uses the pop - styled first half
of Hancock's «Main Titles» for the original English language mono mix, Antonioni, or perhaps an executive, chose to substitute Hancock's livelier «
End Title»
music in place
of the more subdued variation, which was slightly edited and placed over the
film's
End Credits.
While the
end credits song won't shatter pre-conceived notions that Radio Disney
music is
of a one - track sound and it couldn't be further from the sensibilities
of the first
film, the tune lands just north
of bearable.
«He's A Pirate» became the piece
of music that every Pirates
film ends with.
Notably, this time the bounty
of material is handled with lightness and confidence, minimizing the sense
of overload and hectoring that has hampered his other densely populated features — epitomized by the rhetorical uses
of an American flag toward the
end of Nashville, the pretentious or mock - pretentious uses
of music in A Wedding, and an overreliance on 11th - hour violence to goose the dramatic effects
of these and many other
films, including The Long Goodbye and Short Cuts.
The soundstage widens slightly for Brion's score as well as the pop songs selected by
music supervisor Hal Willner (and to put a little reverb on Brennan's impromptu vocal performance near the
end of the
film), but it never draws attention to itself.
As the
film draws towards its finale, so Howard finally really releases the shackles and allows the
music to go full - pelt - «It's God» with a soaring trumpet theme; «The Final Climb» reprises a couple
of earlier themes, Howard once again combining conflicting emotions with real class; and finally, a lovely
end credits piece which is very recognisably from this composer, and one
of the album's certain highlights.
On the complete other
end of the spectrum but covering the same demographic, the tiny independent
film Old Goats — now available on DVD from
Music Box Films — is described on the movie's Facebook Page as «a gentle comedy about the indignities
of aging.»
Another bone is thrown in Devo fans» direction with the inclusion
of the 1976 short
film In the Beginning Was the
End: The Truth About De-evolution (9:43), the
music videos for the band's «Secret Agent Man» cover and «Jocko Homo.»
Seeing James Newton Howard's name in the
end's musical credits was surprising as the muted
music of the
film did nothing to heighten tension or encourage the edge it's sorely lacking in.
Plotless, directionless, and snappy in the same way and for the same audience that the
music in Disney's Hercules was, The Commitments shows its hand when it
ends with an «update»
of what each
of the characters is doing «now,» a movie -
of - the - week contrivance, and just the most obvious one
of the multitude that comprise the rest
of the
film.
«After that we went to L.A. and pulled crew there, did underwater work in San Pedro and
ended up in Humboldt County for wide vistas, etc... We've always
filmed with the same crew, so this was the culmination
of the past five years
of music videos.
Nitzsche repeats this piece
of music throughout the
film and, each time it plays, it gets a little less victorious, a little less triumphant, until the
end, when it's about defeat.
And, from the big
end of town, there are also new sneak peeks
of Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, with Rami Maleck stepping into the
music icon's shoes in an uncanny fashion; The Predator, the latest take on the alien killers directed by The Nice Guys» Shane Black, who actually featured on - screen in the original
film; and Shock and Awe, a new Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones - starring newspaper flick about the US invasion
of Iraq.
The worst example is the main theme song, Paul Jabara's annoying disco opus, «Dance», which is not only a horrendously bad piece
of music, but it also makes no sense being the beginning and
end song in a
film about ambulance drivers.
Films like Bay's Transformers or Paul Greengrass» The Bourne Ultimatum find themselves competing in a never -
ending contest
of one - upmanship, a
film version
of the
music industry's own Loudness Wars.
Bousdoukos (who co-wrote the script) enters the
film as an amiable slob with a vague attachment to a business that has become a matter
of routine, but even as he makes plans to join his journalist girlfriend in China, where she has jumped as a choice opportunity, the transformation
of his business from a glorified cafeteria with sleepy clientele to a social
of young patrons, energetic
music and magnificent cuisine (courtesy
of a mad - dog chef with a tendency to
end conversations with a well - thrown knife) stirs a new passion in him.
First is Sting's dramatic Oscar - nominated
end credits anthem «My Funny Friend and Me» (2:54), presented as a hybrid
of a
music video and the artist's reflections about working on the
film (a sterilized abbreviation
of production, to be sure).
After the disastrous 1978
film Convoy, Peckinpah had trouble finding work; he even stooped to directing
music videos at the very
end, and The Osterman Weekend was the only
film he released during the last six years
of his life.
WE THE PARTY — Specifications Running Time: 104 Minutes Rated: R Street Date: July 31, 2012 Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 SRP: $ 20.99 for the DVD and $ 26.99 for the DVD / Blu - Ray Combo Aspect Ratio: 16 × 9 1.79 Special Features: Feature - length commentary by writer - director Mario Van Peebles and actors Mandela Van Peebles and Makaylo Van Peebles, 4
music videos from the
film («Truth,» «She's a Vegan,» «A Light at the
End of the Tunnel,» and «Forever»), and the theatrical trailer.
In part one
of our talk, Walter takes questions from other leading sound designers Ren Klyce and Gary Rydstrom about his work, talks about how documentary
film has affected modern cinema style, discusses his work in Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, and
ends the episode with a discussion
of the use
of music in The Godfather and The English Patient.
Given that
films are text types in their own right, directors can often be seen as adding or discarding scenes and lines or incorporating their own devices into their
films, such as Zeffirelli's use
of music in his 1968 version
of Romeo and Juliet or Brannagh's use
of black and white as symbolism in his 1995 version
of Othello (such as with Othello's mask in the beginning, and the chess pieces during Iago's soliloquy at the
end of Act 1, Scene 3).
The social implications
of Digital Rights Management on
films and
music businesses and how this affects the
end user.
That statement threw the door wide open to punish the
film and
music industries, since their
end products also require some other forms
of technology to use them.
Of course, the end result is helping writers communicate their passion to the masses, to encourage creative types in spreading their words, messages, and souls via book, film, television, music, or whatever new form of medium is yet to come down the proverbial pat
Of course, the
end result is helping writers communicate their passion to the masses, to encourage creative types in spreading their words, messages, and souls via book,
film, television,
music, or whatever new form
of medium is yet to come down the proverbial pat
of medium is yet to come down the proverbial path.
Best
of all, Festival Sayulita, at the
end of January, celebrates Mexican culture with five days
of film,
music, spirits, and food — balanced with yoga and stand - up paddle events,
of course.
In addition, K - pop singer Taeyeon's first solo
music video I, and the
end scenes
of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword
of Destiny were also
filmed here.
When somebody sits down to write a piece
of music or anything creative — like a book or the script for a
film — the
end goal is to have people hear it, see it, experience it.
, 1976 traces Acconci's early actions and performances, including FOLLOWING PIECE (1969), in which he followed passers - by on the street until they entered private spaces — SHADOW - PLAY (1970), in which he shadowboxed with a bright light shining behind him while moving in front
of a wall — OPENINGS (1970), during which a camera focuses on Acconci's stomach as he pulls out his body hair, the
film ends when Acconci is hairless — SEEDBED (1972), during which he audibly masturbated for eight hours a day under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York while visitors walked overhead — THE RED TAPES (1976 - 77), a three - part epic that merges video space with filmic space, evolving into complex amalgam
of narrative strategies, photographic images,
music and spoken language.
Never
Ending Stories presents the first extensive examination
of the loop phenomenon in art,
films, architecture,
music and literature in a context
of a museum exhibition, taking a comprehensive interdisciplinary look at the subject at hand by keeping in perspective factors like time, place, form and content.