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Buster Keaton Just Might Be the Silent Clown Best Suited to Modern Time

March 9, 2009

Cinefamily screens Buster Keaton tribute. The bill includes 'Our Hospitality,' 'The Navigator' and 'Sherlock Jr.' Buster Keaton just might be the silent clown best suited to modern times, the man we love to watch, as purely American a film genius as the motion pictures have produced. A master of both movement and stillness, Keaton developed a ...

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Watchmen Soundtrack Merges History, Money

March 6, 2009

Few comic books have knit together as many artistic, cultural and political strands as Watchmen, which has finally made the jump from graphic novel to popcorn blockbuster. That's perfect for studios searching for product tie-ins but perhaps not such a great thing for fans of the comic. Take the music of Watchmen, for example. Like few ...

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"Martino Unstrung" New York Premier at the Rubin Museum on March 15

March 1, 2009

Martino Unstrung, the exciting film documentary about legendary guitarist Pat Martino, focusing on his brain aneurysm and heroic recovery will have its first New York public screening at the Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on Sunday, March 15, 4-6 pm. Tickets cost $20 and can be purchased ...

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Carrey, Gyllenhaal do Damn Yankees

February 28, 2009

New Line Cinema is playing ball with Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal on Damn Yankees, attaching both actors to star in a contemporized film transfer of the classic musical. Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are set to write the script. The musical is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the duo behind New Line's ...

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'American Idol': The Pile-Up

February 26, 2009

Please, America, be sane. Don't listen to the obviously predetermined (or at least heavily biased) patter of the judges. Try to put aside your preconceptions about what makes an “Idol" worth supporting. Do the right thing, and instead of going for novelty, looks or even personality, go for voice. Vote for Jesse Langseth. I know -- ...

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Elvis Costello's 'Spectacle' Shares the Inside-the-Music Spotlight

February 25, 2009

A&E / Bio's The Chris Isaak Hour is the second new hourlong music performance and interview series to show up on cable TV in recent months, coming on the heels of the Sundance Channel's Spectacle, hosted by the ever- provocative Elvis Costello. Spectacle is really the brainchild of Elton John and his life-business partner, David Furnish, ...

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Jazz Video Guy Meets Blue Note's Magnificent 7

February 24, 2009

The Blue Note 7 performing Steve Wilson's arrangement of Thelonious Monk's “Criss Cross" highlights the latest entry from Jazz Video Guy Bret Primack's bi-weekly blog, jazzvideoguy.tv. Blue Note Records' 70th Anniversary was the catalyst for the group featuring Nicholas Payton, Steve Wilson, Ravi Coltrane, Bill Charlap, Peter Bernstein, Peter Washington and Lewis Nash playing their own ...

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Dengue Fever Play Silent Film

February 24, 2009

S.F. FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE LOST WORLD WITH LIVE SCORE Dengue Fever The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23-May 7) announces one of the highly anticipated special events of each year's Festival, the annual pairing of live music with an iconic silent film. Dengue Fever will perform the world premiere of their newly composed ...

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Composers Give More Than Just a Soundtrack

February 22, 2009

Pacific Symphony's American Composers Festival has scores to settle The 2009 program, 'Hollywood's Golden Age,' addresses a longstanding lack of respect for music makers whose work was for films. Carl St.Clair can clearly recall being in the third grade in his hometown of Yoakum, Texas, and being “marched down to the Grand Theater where ...

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Creating Tom Waits One from the Heart Soundtrack

February 21, 2009

With the Academy Awards tomorrow night, take a look at what actually goes into the creation of the musical score for the soundtrack a motion picture. Tom Waits is brought onto the Francis Coppola classic, One From The Heart, before even the script is finished. All recording is complete before shooting begins. Waits music gives fabric ...