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 deleted scenes, commentary by Wes Anderson and co-writer/actor Owen Wilson, the making of […]
Archive for the 'Soundtrack Enthusiast' Category
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Friday, August 15th, 2008
“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 Oscar winner, and one of my favorite examples of the juxtaposition of music and […]
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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 his adopted home of Sri Lanka. Excerpts below; read the Associated Press obit, […]
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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 three decades. It’s all here: Cosa Nostra, religious devotion an doubt, moral contradiction, loyalty, family, […]
