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Air scores a newly restored edition of George Méliès’ 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip To The Moon). Méliès hand-painted every frame of the color version of the film, which "pioneered the use of trompe l’oeil objects, papier-mâché props and double-exposure to tell the first science fiction tale in cinema." Air's score features vocals from Au Revoir Simone and Victoria Legrand (Beach House), and “when the people talk [in the film], we decided to use animal sounds,” says Nicolas Godin of Air. More info at Nowness.
Showing posts with label soundtracks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soundtracks. Show all posts
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Image of the Day
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Sonic Youth's self-released soundtrack/score for the French film Simon Werner a Disparu is out today – get it directly from sonicyouth.com.
Sonic Youth's self-released soundtrack/score for the French film Simon Werner a Disparu is out today – get it directly from sonicyouth.com.Thursday, February 3, 2011
The Ant Farm
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Reason no. 86,078 to read the Obituaries section of the New York Times:
Milton M. Levine, 97, inventor of the Ant Farm. I always wanted one of those things and never got one. Someone had to invent that idea for it to exist and his name was Milt Levine.
The thing I like about reading the obituaries, and I know I've said this before, is that you get to read about ordinary people who in the course of their lives did extraordinary things – or even just one extraordinary thing. But maybe they also had a crummy childhood, went to war, figured some stuff out, moved around, worked a bunch of places, had some kids, failed, succeeded. It's interesting to read about people's whole lives – regular or famous – after they're over.
Reason no. 99,123: John Barry, who died last week at the age of 77. The dude composed the music for (among many others) Midnight Cowboy, Body Heat, and all the James Bond films until they started sucking. Before that he was married to Jane Birkin.
Exactly.
Anyway I think it's pretty fascinating to look back on a person's entire life, almost no matter who the person is. If you don't think that's morbid you can read more obituaries here. Also interesting is a 2008 interview with obituary writer Bruce Weber.
Reason no. 86,078 to read the Obituaries section of the New York Times:
Milton M. Levine, 97, inventor of the Ant Farm. I always wanted one of those things and never got one. Someone had to invent that idea for it to exist and his name was Milt Levine.The thing I like about reading the obituaries, and I know I've said this before, is that you get to read about ordinary people who in the course of their lives did extraordinary things – or even just one extraordinary thing. But maybe they also had a crummy childhood, went to war, figured some stuff out, moved around, worked a bunch of places, had some kids, failed, succeeded. It's interesting to read about people's whole lives – regular or famous – after they're over.
Reason no. 99,123: John Barry, who died last week at the age of 77. The dude composed the music for (among many others) Midnight Cowboy, Body Heat, and all the James Bond films until they started sucking. Before that he was married to Jane Birkin.
Exactly.Friday, October 8, 2010
Sequels
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For whatever reason, in collecting old records, as I somewhat continue to do, I often gravitate toward soundtracks. I picked up a few recently and present them here for your viewing and listening pleasure.
They Call Me Mister Tibbs – 1970 sequel to In The Heat of the Night (click here for the trailer)
Quincy Jones "Call Me Mister Tibbs"
In Like Flint – 1967 sequel to Our Man Flint. (trailer)
Jerry Goldsmith "In Like Flint"
Emmanuelle 2 – 1976 sequel to, um, Emmanuelle (boring but just to be consistent: trailer)
Francis Lai "Les Fantasmes d'Emmanuelle"
For whatever reason, in collecting old records, as I somewhat continue to do, I often gravitate toward soundtracks. I picked up a few recently and present them here for your viewing and listening pleasure.
They Call Me Mister Tibbs – 1970 sequel to In The Heat of the Night (click here for the trailer)Quincy Jones "Call Me Mister Tibbs"
In Like Flint – 1967 sequel to Our Man Flint. (trailer)Jerry Goldsmith "In Like Flint"
Emmanuelle 2 – 1976 sequel to, um, Emmanuelle (boring but just to be consistent: trailer)Francis Lai "Les Fantasmes d'Emmanuelle"
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