Roxy: The Movie & Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words
A Zappa concert and a Zappa documentary. Two movies worth your time and attention.
Category Archives: I Like to Listen
Amy, In Which The Life and Death of Amy Winehouse Will Depress The Fuck Out of You
A sad, sad story of an artist eaten alive.
Nick Cave: 20,000 Days On Earth In 5,700 Seconds
A weird and compelling documentary that isn’t a documentary about a weird and compelling man.
Finding Fela: Or, More Exactly, Finding A Broadway Musical About Fela Kuti
Music so brilliant, a man so fascinating, maybe the next doc made about his life will be the good one.
A Hard Day’s Night Is Really Good, And Other Stunning Beatles Revelations
I think this band could really make it big.
Purple Rain, And The Shame of Movies Never Seen
“That ain’t Lake Minnetonka.”
Lisztomania Blitzophrenia Aphrodelia
If one takes things at face value, then Ken Russell’s 1975 film Lisztomania is about composer Franz Liszt. Regardless of how one takes things, however, the film is completely unhinged, unabashed, […]
On Koyaanisqatsi, Beauty, And Ambiguity
Images from Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi are etched into my brain. Nighttime cityscapes at high speed, their streets like veins carrying electrons. Rivers of fog roiling over mountains. A […]
Echoes Of 2001
Hey kids, it’s time to melt your brains a wee bit with this marvelous visual/audio mash-up of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” from their album Meddle. […]
Wagner at the Movies
Books could be written, and probably have been, about the likely hundreds of uses of Richard Wagner‘s music in movies. People have to write books about something. (Okay, I looked it up […]
The 10 Best Soundtracks for Obsessive Listening
Movie soundtracks come in many forms. I’m here to talk about one type in particular: original scores, that is, music composed specifically for a given movie, as opposed to scores […]