Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Quentin Tarantino on Today Show and Brief Guide to "Basterds"
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EXCERPT:
Let’s assume that you paid just enough attention in history class and that you know how Adolf Hitler eventually died, and you’re aware that it had nothing to do with crazy interconnected assassination plots staged by French Resistance cinephiles or a team of swaggering, American, bloodlust-crazed, working class Jews.
Then you can walk right into Quentin Tarantino’s sprawling, gory, tense, hilariously strutting vision of fact-implosion and skull-carving called “Inglourious Basterds” and not really worry too much about the million other bytes of movie-nerd information he’s machine-gun spraying all over you. You’ll understand that this is one man’s fantasy of how the Greatest Generation’s war could have ended and leave the theater afterward both grossed out and thoroughly entertained.
But that’s not all you get when you watch one of Tarantino’s movies...
More at the link below!
A Brief Guide to Inglourious Basterds (MSNBC)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Hey Warrenton theater:
man, you guys suck for not getting Inglourious Basterds.
I gotta blame it on that guy with the Elvis glasses.
just because he deserves to be blamed.
I need to get my license so I can see movies out of town.
I gotta blame it on that guy with the Elvis glasses.
just because he deserves to be blamed.
I need to get my license so I can see movies out of town.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Film scores and themes
I'm a sucker for a good soundtrack.
If you ever get bored one late night (like I am) or are in the need of a bit of an uplifting soundtrack, or just something for the background of whatever you're doing, be sure to give these a listen.
A Clockwork Orange
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Composed by Gioacchino Rossini.
Sweeney Todd
"Green Finch and and Linnet Bird" by Stephen Sondheim
"Johanna" by Stephen Sondheim
"My Friends" by Stephen Sondheim
The Return of the King
Howard Shore:
Revenge of the Sith by John Williams
"Anakin's Dark Deeds"
"Battle of the Heroes"
"Birth of the Twins"
Star Wars A New Hope
"Throne Room" by John Williams
The Phantom Menace
"Duel of the Fates" by John Williams
Batman Begins
"Barbastella and Main Theme" by Hans Zimmer James Newton Howard
The Village
by James Newton Howard
The Elephant Man
by John Morris
Ravenous
by Damon Albarn
AND, last but not least, though not from a film, but from the television show LOST. A great episode ending for one of the most sympathetic characters from the show, composed beautifully by Michael Giacchino.
LOST -" Locke'd Out Again"
by Michael Giacchino
If you ever get bored one late night (like I am) or are in the need of a bit of an uplifting soundtrack, or just something for the background of whatever you're doing, be sure to give these a listen.
A Clockwork Orange
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Composed by Gioacchino Rossini.
Sweeney Todd
"Green Finch and and Linnet Bird" by Stephen Sondheim
"Johanna" by Stephen Sondheim
"My Friends" by Stephen Sondheim
The Return of the King
Howard Shore:
Revenge of the Sith by John Williams
"Anakin's Dark Deeds"
"Battle of the Heroes"
"Birth of the Twins"
Star Wars A New Hope
"Throne Room" by John Williams
The Phantom Menace
"Duel of the Fates" by John Williams
Batman Begins
"Barbastella and Main Theme" by Hans Zimmer James Newton Howard
The Village
by James Newton Howard
The Elephant Man
by John Morris
Ravenous
by Damon Albarn
AND, last but not least, though not from a film, but from the television show LOST. A great episode ending for one of the most sympathetic characters from the show, composed beautifully by Michael Giacchino.
LOST -" Locke'd Out Again"
by Michael Giacchino
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
2008 in Music: The best albums.
The best albums of 2008:
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Magnetic Morning - A.M.
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
Deerhunter- Microcastle
The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Magnetic Morning - A.M.
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
Deerhunter- Microcastle
The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Mister Lonely by Patrick
If you are familiar with director Harmony Korine then you already know it's a strange movie.
The film is about a struggling Michael Jackson immitator who is invited to live in a commune of other celebrity immitators including Abe Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, The Pope, Sammy Davis Jr, Madonna, among others. It's absolutely hilarious and at times somewhat moving. All in all, a nice dreamy dramedy but it may take a few sittings.
The film is about a struggling Michael Jackson immitator who is invited to live in a commune of other celebrity immitators including Abe Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, The Pope, Sammy Davis Jr, Madonna, among others. It's absolutely hilarious and at times somewhat moving. All in all, a nice dreamy dramedy but it may take a few sittings.
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