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Category: Soundtrack Enthusiast
Ned Kelly :: Music and Lyrics by Shel Silverstein (1970)
I took a film class once where we contemplated what kinds of movies could or could not be construed as Westerns. The professor was tall and lanky in a bow tie, with hands that hung […]
Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Horror films have always straddled the line between sex and violence. One could say the same about porn. Put the two genres together and add a heavy dose of irony and psychedelic drugs and you […]
A Soundtrack Enthusiast :: Trainspotting
Truly great soundtracks don’t come easy. This is what makes the companion to Trainspotting so unusual. Not only does it manage to nail the cultural moment the film portrays (and aurally recreate the film’s story in its […]
Yo La Tengo :: They Shoot, We Score
“If you build it, they will come,” or in the case of Yo La Tengo , if they record it I will most likely eventually get around to listening to it — whatever the it may be. In […]
Tom Waits :: One From The Heart (OST)
I have to admit, I’m not always excited about the idea of a single artist recording the entire soundtrack to a film. It’s usually not the most career-defining moment for a musician. Sure, there are […]
A Soundtrack Enthusiast :: Chinatown (1974)
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” Written by Robert Towne , directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jack Nicholson , Chinatown undoubtedly stands as one of the greatest films of the twentieth century. Classic film noir, on a base level, Chinatown […]
Brotherman :: 1975 Blaxploitation OST
If the below description of this lost blaxploitation flick’s soundtrack doesn’t pique your interest then I would wager you have never watched Dolemite , The Mack and Superfly back-to-back (which, I might . . . Only the good shit. […]
Bottle Rocket :: Criterion Collection (November 2008)
Earlier this month Goldenfiddle reminded us that the latest Wes Anderson addition to the Criterion Collection DVD series is due out November 25th. Anderson’s first feature film, Bottle Rocket , is finally getting the all-star, deluxe, two-disc reissue treatment complete with: Eleven […]
A Soundtrack Enthusiast :: An American Werewolf In London
“Stay on the road, stay away from the Moors and beware of the moon.” Sage advice, indeed. Filmmaker John Landis’s An American Werewolf In London (1981) is a lot of things; a maverick comedy, a gratuitous horror flick, an […]
R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke :: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Still one of my favorite films, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey both turned me on to its accompanying soundtrack, as well as the works of its author, Arthur C. Clarke , who passed away today, at the age of 90, in […]
A Soundtrack Enthusiast :: Mean Streets (1973)
Originally titled Season of The Witch, Mean Streets is both an accomplishment in film in its own right, as well as a blueprint for the themes and motifs Martin Scorsese would later expand on and finesse for the next […]