movie review
The best music movies throughout history.
'Burn the Stage: The Movie'
The YouTube Original series has come out with a movie version and I had the chance to finally witness the experience of watching it last night. To be honest, I actually had watched the series on YouTube but the movie takes the story they told to a whole new level. It was a little more like a natural documentary rather than one where it's an interview plus documentary, which is something I liked.
By Heerin Park7 years ago in Beat
Movie Review 'Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda'
For years, for me, the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto was some throwaway music reference. In the movie High Fidelity, Ialways intended to look up but never did. I took note of his work recently when I saw The Last Emperor, for the first time in more than a decade, but it wasn’t until this week when I saw the remarkable documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda that I finally came to understand his genius.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Beat
Pointless Scene Reveals Fatal Falsehood of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
There are many, many, many things wrong with Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody from the joyless portrayal of Freddie Mercury's life to the script which features Mercury spouting music producer jargon to explain the creative magic of Queen, to Mike Myers being, well, Mike Myers in a role that amounts to little more than a dimwitted meta gag.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Beat
"Escape! No Escape!"
Escape! No Escape! In 1985, Monty Python alumni Terry Gilliam released Brazil which is considered by many to be his magnum opus. The film is heavily inspired by George Orwell’s novel 1984, with both taking place in a society that is under the ruling of a totalitarian government. Gilliam’s film however focuses on the corruption of government and bureaucracy, and how society has become slaves to commercialism. The most powerful part of the film is the ending, which sees the main character Sam captured and interrogated by the state. Just as he is about to be lobotomized, he is rescued by his friend and manages to escape the totalitarian regime of Brazil with the woman of his dreams. As the film ends, we see Sam out in the countryside that he envisioned in his dreams, just when the film is about to end we soon realize that it was all in his head. Finally, the film cuts to a close up of Sam looking sedated but humming the theme of the film, the camera then cuts to an extreme interior wide shot of the cooling tower where Sam is being held and slowly start to hear him sing "Brazil."
By Walter Duke7 years ago in Beat
'Braven': An Analysis of the Score
The thing that I love about film scores from a wide range of genres is their ability to comprehend and convey a certain type of emotion. A lot of people think that writing a film score is simple and that it’s not a really ambitious job; but it is. Anyone can write music but if you make your music different then you could be climbing the ladder. Hans Zimmer, a leading composers of the 21st century, said in his masterclass advert that anyone can write a blockbuster score, even a kid in a garage with an iPad in the Bronx. Everyone has the music in their lives but some people know how to get what they hear and feel in their head through the fingers onto paper for others to hear as well.
By Tube Media7 years ago in Beat
Mark Mancina's Music for 'August Rush'
The story of August Rush is undoubtedly a fairytale style film, and music is meant to be a driving force for that. Evan/August is a young musical prodigy living in an orphanage, determined to find his birth parents. The musical landscape and sound design Kirsten Sheridan’s film is created in such a way to combine the musical languages of Evan, his mother Lyla, and his father Louis. This is to carry the narrative concept that Evan can hear the music of his parents (who are both professional musicians), and is strongly influenced by it, and eventually follows it to them. The music heard throughout the film is a growing accumulation of themes and motifs that eventually make up the debut composition of Evan, and therefore it is most logical to discuss the music in relation to the events of the film in chronological order.
By Celia Olson8 years ago in Beat
David Raksin's Music for 'Laura' (1944)
Background on the Composer David Raksin was musically trained in America, his father was the conductor at Philadelphia’s Metropolitan, and Raksin himself started in Hollywood as a staff musician. (Kalinak 159). He arranged “Modern Times” and then worked at Universal Studios and in a team of musicians on “B films,” specializing in main titles, montages and battles sequences (Kalinak 159). Raksin’s specialty was horror films and Laura was his first “A film" (Kalinak 160).
By Celia Olson8 years ago in Beat
Best Music Documentaries on Netflix to Stream Right Now
Everyone starts from the bottom. Everyone. Many artists started from the bottom before they became hugely successful. They've gone through tough obstacles, major struggles, and much more that continuously pushed them down. But they managed to surpass all of that and reach the peak of their career. And many of these artists are truly inspirational and show us what hard work looks like in the end.
By C.C. Curtis8 years ago in Beat
How A Movie About A Music Teacher Gave Me My Dreams Back
I'll tell you this first, because I need to go on record with it - very few movies can make me cry. I'm pretty sure that I can list the number of films that induce tears on two hands: Dead Poet's Society, Good Will Hunting, Schindler's List & Mr. Holland's Opus are the first that come to my mind, and one film changed the course of my life quite dramatically.
By Matthew Bailey8 years ago in Beat
Music and Concert Documentaries on Netflix
Too few people watch documentaries, which means that many music and concert documentaries on Netflix go unwatched. It's a damn shame, too, because there are a multitude of great ones no one sees. With so many movies and shows on the streaming service, it's hard to figure out what to watch. So often, quality shows are drowned in a quantity of crap. And documentaries can be made and uploaded to the service on the cheap.
By Anthony Gramuglia9 years ago in Beat
