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Shortly after McCain left the stage, the crowd began to thin and the oversized speakers began to pipe in a new addition to the McCain soundtrack, Move Along Now, by the pop-punk band All America Rejects, a group whose age, if added together, would place them in McCain's generation. "All you have to keep is strong, move along move along, like I know you do," go the lyrics...
...largely cohesive offering is jarred by one glaring exception: “If You’re Out There” is a sentimental attempt at a political call to action, with overly theatrical, Disney-esque drumming and gospel backup vocals that produce something far too reminiscent of the soundtrack to “The Lion King.” The lyrics are unoriginal (“If you’re out there / Sing along with me / If you’re out there / I’m dying to believe that you’re out there...
...obsessions, the images and character types that would inspire Martin Scorsese for the whole of his career. A shot of his mother, kneading pasta. A statue of the Virgin Mary. Young men from the neighborhood, in an argument that explodes into a fight. Rock and roll on the soundtrack. A headlong, hand-held shot preceding the two fighters as one tries to escape down the sidewalk and the other chases him, hitting him with a pole. A high-angle view from across the street of the Eighth Ward Social Club ... It is remarkable that a director would...
...More to the point, “Contempt,” released in 1963, stands apart from a good portion of his other work from the period if for no other reason than it simply feels more palatable to today’s mainstream film audience. The soundtrack, scored by Georges Delerue, builds and sweeps with an epic romanticism that self-consciously apes the conventions of contemporary dramatic film. The cinematography, overseen by perennial Godard collaborator Raoul Coutard, had rarely looked more breathtaking—not only is the camera finally still (his earlier films were often shot on hand...
...were three older women (they had to be at least thirty) practicing double-Dutch. Realizing that our interest was piqued, they invited us to watch their jump roping show. The three butchered nearly every trick they tried, smiling sheepishly and muttering excuses under the beat of their hip-hop soundtrack. At the end of the show they handed us flyers for the jump rope lessons they taught, which we promptly threw out at the next available trash...