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...Everything is gorgeous here, from Amélie’s apartment to the subway platforms Nino scours. The characters inhabit a fantasy version of the Montmartre district, miraculously free of gawking tourists and the souvenir shops that attract them. Of course, there’s the obligatory accordion soundtrack, but it serves well to keep the mood light and link some otherwise disjointed scenes. That’s not to say that all of Jeunet’s choices are judicious; the charmingly absurd often lapses into the offensively cutesy. Most of the special effects (e.g. the visible, three...

Author: By Thomas J. Clarke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Matchmaker, Matchmaker | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...industry comes from the performing rights organizations like the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and Broadcast Music, Inc. These organizations manage the royalty collection and distribution for “public performances” of music, like the placement of a song on a movie soundtrack or its use in a bar’s karaoke machine. In recent years, they have increasingly brought the distribution of music on the Internet under their control. And because these organizations are accustomed to charging users of music on a per-use basis, they mean to charge consumers...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, | Title: Steal This Column! | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

Young women (and even some men) of a certain cultural predilection might remember what it was like having fearless singers like Amos form the soundtrack of their adolescence...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of a Toriphile | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...Film No. 13 (Fly)” (1970), in which a woman’s naked body is transformed into a surreal landscape as the camera takes on the perspective of the horsefly scouring her surface. Ono’s trademark vocal stylings provide the soundtrack. Though meek and childlike in conversation, her voice is fantastically visceral in art: Imagine crossing the frenzied whine of a boiling teapot with the grunts of a man raised by apes...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: YOKO | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...door you must climb the chain to throw the switch to lower the bridge to reach the box you can climb on. Among other things, it's an extremely relaxing game since you can take your time to poke around the richly detailed environment. The soundtrack has no pulsing music, just quiet ambience of twittering birds, wind and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pleasures of Escape | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

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