October 2009
79 posts
11 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time, by Martin... →
Cowboy Junkies, “Sweet Jane” from...
The Church, “Under the Milky Way”,...
Vince Guaraldi’s “The Great Pumpkin...
Bernard Herrman’s theme from Psycho (1960,...
Jonny Greenwood’s “Proven Lands”...
Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon (from Down by...
Bob Altman's Big Short Cuts Gamble →
‘It was the middle of summer and broiling-hot — stifling. The location was a good 40 minutes from the Red Lion Inn, where people were staying. Bob came over after dinner, and turned to me: “We have an early start. Walk me back to my room.” We began walking down what felt like a mile of maroon hotel corridors. We talked in shorthand: he was tired, but he wanted the news....
Dominic Harlan - Musica Ricercata, II (from Eyes...
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a...”
– Stanley Kubrick
I this is an interesting quote by Kubrick and representative of how his films irrevocably changed the relationship between film and music. The medium of his message was usually music. His final film Eyes Wide Shut, featured a solitary piano note pounded into submission until the...
Wise Up - Aimee Mann
(from the Magnolia...
WatchC’était un rendez-vous (“It was a date”)
“On an August morning in 1978, the story goes, French director Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris.
The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes. The driver barrel-assed...
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Against...
