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On Movies, Musicians and Soundtracks
An Analysis of the Soundtrack in the Work of Malcolm Le Grice
Avant-garde cinema has a long and illustrious tradition of experimentation between image and music. The work of this seminal structural/materialist filmmaker is further testament to
No Direction Home: Looking Forward from Don’t Look Back
Given that much of this Bob Dylan documentary sources its material from the archives of the Direct Cinema movement of the 1960s, this article addresses
Give Me a Second Grace: Music as Absolution in The Royal Tenenbaums
An insightful thematic cross-reading of the film’s narrative in relation to its pop-music soundtrack.
Observable Death: Gus Van Sant’s Last Days
Ostensibly about very little, Van Sant’s film on the last days of a rock musician is discussed in the light of theorist Siegfried Kracauer’s ideas