When it comes to the sonic world of a film, music should be used with delicacy and forethought as if it were a character itself. The audience shouldn’t feel manipulated by a score or a song placed over a scene just so, as the cinematic sounds of a movie should simply be another layer inside a moment of its own merit—enhancing our viewing experience by catering to all the senses. -BlackBook
Yahoo! Music has the exclusive premiere for Song One (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), music by Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice, performed by Johnny Flynn. Lakeshore Records will release the album digitally on January 13. Get the new single, “In April” — out now on iTunes! Read the full story at Yahoo! Music.
Watch Song One (Original Motion Picture) Official Album Preview here:
This soundtrack to one of Robin Williams ’s last films opens with Rufus Wainwright singing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” backed by a 55-piece orchestra. The album then features mostly to hip holiday originals like Anna Su ’s mischievous “Santa Will Be Flying Over the Moon,” Spencer Shapeero ’s meditative “The Weather Outside” and FM Radio’s galloping “More Than I Wished For.” Mr. Wainwright returns at the end with his own “Christmas Is for Kids.” A cozy collection of cutting-edge noëls.
Director: Tristram Shapeero. Cast: Joel McHale, Lauren Graham, Clark Duke, Oliver Platt, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Tim Heidecker, Candice Bergen and Robin Williams. Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son’s gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
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Congratulations goes out to Jake Gyllenhaal for his Golden Globe® Awards nomination in the “Best Actor In A Motion Picture, Drama” category — for his role in Nightcrawler. Lakeshore Records has released three soundtracks to movies starring Jake Gyllenhaal: Nightcrawler, Zodiac and Source Code. In addition to his Golden Globe nomination, Gyllenhaal is also nominated for the following awards:
The 72nd Annual Golden Globe® Awards, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, will air on Sunday, January 11, 2015, LIVE coast-to-coast on NBC from 5:00-8:00 p.m. (PST)/8:00-11:00 p.m. (EST). See Nightcrawler now playing in theaters nationwide (check show times).
A highly watchable film…Kates also dresses the screen with poetical visual interludes — animated type resolving into a portrait of the writer, a naked female torso to accompany Sontag’s sexual realizing that she liked women in a way she hadn’t liked men. (It wasn’t until 2000 that she publicly acknowledged her bisexuality.) These moves are not strictly necessary, but they give the film a dreaminess that suits the subject and complements the grainier, rougher archival footage.
If you missed Regarding Susan Sontagdirected by Nancy Kates which made its exclusive premiere on HBO on Monday night, you can catch it at the following airdates:
HBO Airdates:
December 11 (3:30 p.m.)
December 13 (4:15 p.m.)
December 17 (5:30 p.m.)
December 22 (11:55 p.m.)
December 28 (2:00 p.m.)
December 30 (9:30 a.m.)
HBO2 Airdates:
December 10 (8:00 p.m.)
December 15 (1:40 p.m.)
December 18 (12:50 a.m.)
December 27 (10:00 a.m.)
Recipient of a Special Jury Mention at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, Regarding Susan Sontag features a rich collection of archival materials, evocative imagery and accounts from friends, family, colleagues and lovers – including Sontag’s sister, Judith Sontag Cohen, authors Stephen Koch, Eva Kollisch, Fran Leibowitz and Sigrid Nunez, and poet Wayne Koestenbaum – and Sontag’s work, read by Patricia Clarkson.
Passionate and gracefully outspoken, Susan Sontag was a prominent literary, political and feminist icon. As a critic, novelist, teacher, filmmaker, activist and iconoclast, her love of learning and examinations of cultural and political ideas made her both a compelling public figure and a significant 20th-century critic. A complex person, Sontag fiercely guarded her privacy, despite her boldness in the literary world.
