Sentences with phrase «film musical written»

A song from a stage musical or film musical written for the show but unused or dropped from the production.

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The song was first written for a 1933 film, but is perhaps most famously used in the musical «42nd Street.»

Choose from 40 specialty programs include acting, film production, music, creative writing, dance, art, musical theatre, singing, digital arts and stage combat.

Part of musical performance involves narcissism, just as some part of writing or acting or painting or sculpting or making film is deeply self - absorbed, but we don't condemn musicians or artists for daring to put their creations out in public for people to see.

Sloppy writing gives savvy movie - cum - music fans the impression that this demographically challenged film doesn't know the difference between Nashville and Austin, or in other words, the schism which divides contemporary country music into its inimical sides: mainstream and alternative, just like rock, or any number of musical genres.

While retaining many of the Broadway show's musical numbers, the film enlisted the stage production's Tony - winning composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman to write additional material for the film, though their new songs failed to earn any Oscar nominations.

Every film Mel Brooks has directed or written has hinted at a musical, but never fully realized itself as one.

Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley, actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Coming soon: Thompson starred in 2005 film Nanny McPhee and has now written a book for the musical which is based on the movie

In addition to directing the film, Rodriguez wrote the script, directed the cinematography, wrote the musical score, co-edited, and produced it.

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

Though it has a lot of fun playing with slasher tropes and cinema in general (showing the way Max and her friends are affected by elements like musical cues, monochromatic flashback sequences and slow motion within the fictional movie), the film isn't funny or scary enough, ultimately becoming a victim of its own satire due to its insistence on preserving the genre's traditionally bad acting and writing.

Labeled by the late Film Critic Roger Ebert as «The best in the world at accompanying silent films,» Alloy Orchestra is a three - man musical ensemble that writes new music and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films.

Lily James (pictured) has been cast in the film musical All You Need Is Love, written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle

The actress, who appeared alongside Gary Oldman in his Oscar - winning turn as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, has been cast in the film musical All You Need Is Love, written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle.

The metaphysical, stylistic, musical, and directorial steps Rivette takes have everything to do with his legacy as a film critic, despite the fact that he wrote and published criticism only between 1950 and 1969.

The script for the musical drama, whose music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim, as he composed the Broadway play, was penned by first - time feature film writer, James Lapine.

And the deletion from the final cut of the new song, «She'll Be Back», written expressly by Stephen Sondheim for Meryl Streep, means that Into the Woods - which has done better at the box office than many film musicals of late (Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys, anyone?)

That gives the film, directed by Bill Pohlad and written by Oren Moverman and Michael Lerner, the chance to show us Wilson's gifted musical evolution as a young man and member of the Beach Boys, then fast forwarding through his life to someone trapped behind his crippling mental illness and the immovable force that was Gene Landy.

The film's original screenwriter and director, PJ Hogan, will write the musical's book, giving the story a contemporary update for its stage debut.

Emma Thompson starred in the 2005 film and has now written a book for the musical which is based on the movie

Like many recent films based on well - known cult comics, director and co-writer Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) attempts to translate, quite literally, the images from the comics to the screen, with phonetic musical demonstrations (songs written by alt - rock fave, Beck), visual name tags for character introductions, and bleeped (visually) foul language.

Theater Mania has an interest piece on why so many musicals disappear in the development stages The Film Stage looks at MoMA's Scorsese exhibit of film one sheets CHUD an editorial on why we need gays as main characters in mainstream blockbusters - written by a straight man Guardian Hilary Swank scaling back career to care for her ailing father.

The scene in which she writes the title song for and about Johnny is the film's dramatic and musical high point.

Bookended by musical performances, the film concludes with the girls singing an ethereal ballad, «I Feel The Cold» (written by Alex Proyas, director of both The Crow (1994) and Dark City (1998)-RRB-.

The studio's 1991 film remains arguably the greatest of its animated works, somehow managing to adhere to a rigid musical formula while injecting atmosphere, deep characterization (especially for its heroine), and beautifully written, funny, and intelligent songs.

The Program is focused on supporting accomplished composers from a wide range of musical backgrounds, which may include composers with previous experience writing for film as well as accomplished composers working outside of film whose work is suitable for film scoring.

In fact, the new Producers derives from Brooks» 2000 Tony - winning, Broadway stage musical adaptation of his earlier film (and Brooks, enjoying his septugenarian impresario rebirth, has written ten songs for an upcoming stage musical version of Young Frankenstein).

«You're the One That I Want» is one of three songs released as singles written specifically for the film version of Grease and not included in the stage musical.

Original music for «Muriel's Wedding the Musical» is being written by award - winning singer - songwriters Kate Miller - Heidke and Keir Nuttall, as their songs will be joined by the ABBA tunes so famously featured in popular Australian film (which were originally written for ABBA by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson).

Oh, yeah, and naturally his songs kick ass too... particularly the haunting «I Love You All» (written by Fassbender and Azur along with the film's musical composer, Stephen Rennicks.)

I love Gold Diggers of 1933 to bits, and the musical numbers are some of the best Warren and Dubin ever wrote, or Busby Berkeley ever filmed.

The long, proud history of American movie musicals is written on the face of this film.

But if you factor in a Disney film, writing an Oscar - winning song for The Muppets, a sleeper hit HBO sitcom, and the fact that this musical - comedy duo is one of the funniest and most talented acts to come along in two decades — well, an explanation begins to take shape.

The film is an original musical written by Bill Condon («Dreamgirls») and Jenny Bicks («Sex and the City») with lyrics from Oscar winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul («La La Land»).

Trivia note: the film is written and produced by Anthony Lawrence, who earlier wrote three of the silliest of Elvis musicals back in the sixties.

When the composer Bernard Herrmann gave Brian De Palma his written score for the director's film Obsession (1975), he inscribed it: «With thanks for the finest film of my musical life.»

Extra Special: No mainstream Hollywood composer has so beautifully balanced experimental funk with soaring, lush orchestration as Thomas Newman, the scion of a film scoring family whose humble musical beginnings were spent in bands and writing the funky beat - driven scores of such youth - oriented comedies as «Revenge of the Nerds» «Desperately Seeking Susan» and «Real Genius.»

As the biography at his site states, David's books have been translated into several languages, made into animated films and musicals, and have won many prestigious illustration awards, including the 1998 Caldecott Honor for The Gardener written by his wife, Sarah Stewart, and the 2001 Caldecott Medal for So, You Want To Be President?

From her early conceptual pieces to her current solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Ono's performance, film, musical, and written works engage the active participation of the audience.

She has written three operas, recorded fourteen albums of songs, directed a musical feature film which was released in 2016, and has two more films in production.

He released two solo albums that blend Senegalese musical traditions with Jazz, Reggae, Afrobeat, and Blues, and writes music for films.

Conceived as a silent film without dialogue, it is accompanied by a musical score written and recorded by Will Butler, Jeremy Gara, and Tim Kingsbury, who also worked with Dzama on a 7 - inch vinyl record produced to coincide with the exhibition at David Zwirner and The Believer magazine's Summer 2014 issue.

Always an innovator, Klein spanned many mediums, boldly exploring musical composition, sculpture, performance, photography, theater, film and theoretical writing, in addition to the blue monochrome painting for which he is so famed.

All aspects of creating, writing, arranging, recording and producing musical and voice over projects for music, film and indie companies.