Word: soundtrack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such a story could get tiresome, but Hughes handles the material with an appropriately light touch. His deft comic touches includes inserting clips from the "Twilight Zone" soundtrack during some of Samantha's more trying moments...
...space they were probably reserved for such mundane things as Summer and Winter (the themes of III and IV, respectively) And the likeness with movie themes is no coincidence. In fact, many people, upon hearing the album for the first time point out that it sounds like a movie soundtrack. The similarity is that Davis, like a move maker, has picked a theme and stuck to it closely Furthermore, he has been successful in painting musical motion picture of "Kepler's Dream...
...film's repeated associations of sex with violence and both with liberation raise more serious questions. Rourke and Tracey break into their high school at night and trash the front office while Kim Wilde's "Kids in America" plays on the soundtrack. Perhaps the scene tries to terrify adults by showing typical teenagers in a Lord of the Flies atmosphere--or perhaps the filmmakers are advancing a suggestion for high school students everywhere? It's hard to tell. Then Rourke and Tracey commence lovemaking by hitting each other with sponge bats; the message isn't even subliminal...
...feel of the age the grime of street life and bread lines, the sense of urgency haunting politicos on all sides of the spectrum, and the pervasive paranoia of a society in lethal flux. Wajda brings forth all the weapons in this director's arsenal, from a droning soundtrack to claustrophobic camerawork, to brilliant contrast between dark night and the torches of the security police. He succeeds masterfully in conveying the dreadful anxiety of living in a totalitarian regime. For if the government of the Terror lacks the 20th century's technological tools of surveillance, it nevertheless aspired...
DIRECTOR WRITER John Sayles seems to like his movies heavy on soundtrack, light on plot. In his recent Lianna, a young mother of two decides for no apparent reason to take up homosexuality while a Joni Mitchellesque voice sings about love and other relevant topics in the background. Lianna does a lot of mournful staring out of windows, the crooning puts us--sort of--in the mood, and nothing much else happens...