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| One Francis or Another; notes on some animated music
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| Posted By:
Michael Barrett
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11/19/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Alexeieff's colorful advertising films, whose abstractions often have little direct relation to the function of the product in question, are often presented with titles and a music credit. The disc comes with a long technical booklet explaining the animation techniques but says nothing about the music, so I'm filling in a few blanks here. |
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| Children's Choirs and Devil's Lullabies, or The Kids Aren't Alright
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| Posted By:
Michael Barrett
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10/22/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Brothers and sisters, it's devil music. No, I'm not talking about rock and roll, but about two related clichés in horror scores about bad kids: the children's choir and the demonic lullaby. These subjects occurred to me when reading a reference to a children's choir used in Jonathan Elias' soundtrack to the original CHILDREN OF THE CORN. A book is waiting to be written on this subject, but I'm not writing it. In case anyone is planning to write it, however, here are a few incomplete notes. |
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| B'WAY TO H'WOOD: TOO LATE?
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| Posted By:
Michael Barrett
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9/26/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| I'm not really such a cast-album person but neither do I eschew them. I've heard some things, he says chewing a nail. When I listen, I imagine a movie in my head, and sometimes I wish that movie had been made. Is it too late? What are shows that would film well? |
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| Spelling It Out, or TV Movies: A Primer
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| Posted By:
Michael Barrett
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8/6/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| What this means is that every American child of this era has pretty much the same pool of memories, because we tended to be drawn to the same things and there wasn't much to watch. Virtually everyone of a certain age recalls the Zuni doll attacking Karen Black in director Dan Curtis and writer Richard Matheson's TRILOGY OF TERROR (music, of course, by Bob Cobert of DARK SHADOWS). Even if they don't remember the title or any details, their eyes will light up if you start to describe it, because just about everyone near an American TV saw it. |
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| Fantasy Box Sets, or Six Degrees of Shirley MacLaine
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| Posted By:
Michael Barrett
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7/22/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Sometimes, especially when I have more urgent things to do, I like to woolgather and make up various lists and plans, like what I'd do if I ran the world. I wouldn't invade too many countries (though I refuse to be tied down on this point), but I would sure put out a lot of box sets. I guess this game is called Fantasy Box Sets. |
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| More Wisdom Bites the Dust?
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| Posted By:
Michael Barrett
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6/29/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| When I read interviews with Golden Age composers, it seems they always repeat this homily about their craft: "The background score is supposed to support the movie without calling attention to itself. The moment the audience notices the music, that means it's bad and not doing its job properly."
I'm sorry I can't cite any specific quotes, but you know I'm not making this up. This bit of wisdom is still repeated today. It's the basic thing everybody supposedly knows about film music. It's practically the definition of the form.
And it's a crock, isn't it? |
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| Remember LAST YEAR? Are you sure?
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| Posted By:
Michael Barrett
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6/21/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Film is closest to music of all the arts, closer than to the novel or even the drama. So if we think of a movie in terms of something that can be replayed infinitely like a symphony, its visual movements and motifs organized in time, presenting variations on its themes of style and image rather than something that follows characters in a narrative, then this picture fits the bill. All by herself, Delphine Seyrig in her many poses makes one heck of a visual motif. |
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| Jeff Alexander: He's Hip, He's Now, He's Today!
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| Posted By:
Michael Barrett
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5/25/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| The English rock band British Sea Power have just released a CD called MAN OF ARAN, which contains the CD of a soundtrack they composed for Robert J. Flaherty's 1934 docu-drama, plus a DVD of the film with the new soundtrack. Actually there are five soundtrack options, because there are two different stereo mixes of the studio recording, two more of a live performance at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and one bonus score that's spare and minimal in comparison with the roaring guitar-based material they composed for their main track. |
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