Word: soundtrack
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...make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight to camera over the sound of rifle fire. Some of the eye-opening footage was used by Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11, and Gittoes' f?ted film has found a home on America's VH1 cable channel as well as at Melbourne...
...Comparing word snippets to playlists is cynical propaganda, or at best an error in logic that could only be made by a person who doesn't love and live with them both: Elitist and wrong, or ignorant and wrong, depending on your point of view. Musical playlists, like film soundtracks, are about using songs to create an aural atmosphere, a soundtrack for life. Listeners want to be DJs, and music moves fluidly between the public and the private. Reading, by contrast, is always private...
...film’s main shortcoming is its limping soundtrack. In the time period during which the film covers, Jones participated in the sessions for “Aftermath,” “Beggar’s Banquet,” and “Let it Bleed,” three of the greatest albums in rock and roll history. Unfortunately, none of that music appears in the film and its absence leaves a gaping hole...
Despite these influences, “Friends with Money” transcends becoming a clichéd dystopian narrative or chick flick, in part because of its pensive cinematography and a mournful, unique Rickee Lee Jones soundtrack. The film really captivates, though, because of its freshness as a distinctly post-feminist, post-boomer, twenty-first century story. It frightened me so much that these familiar feeling women—who have broken the glass ceiling, had their perfect children, built their Barbie dream home, and still have amazing social lives and fabulous shoes—are supposed...
Bottom Line: A “must-see” for those who love any type of dance, “Take the Lead” is a fun movie with a fantastic soundtrack that will leave you dancing out of the theatre…or at least humming...