Music
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Whiplash and the Economy of Expansion
How writer-director Damien Chazelle expanded an award-winning short into an award-wining feature. Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash is one of the better stories about the struggle to…
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Experience The Pure Joy of Dwayne Johnson Singing in Moana
Is there anything he can’t do? Audiences who saw Moana over the weekend – of which there were many – already know the pleasure of watching…
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Whiplash, Black Swan, and the Structure of Sacrifice and Suffering
A new video compares the parallels between the two films and their scripts. If you take away the details and paint both films in broad strokes,…
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D.A. Pennebaker, Bob Dylan, and the Birth of the Modern Rock-Doc
The director on how Don’t Look Back created the template for its subgenre.
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The Many Sounds and Emotions of Moonlight
A new montage highlights the film’s varied use of popular music styles. An important part of any great film is the soundtrack. The advance of U.S…
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Movie Trailer Soundtracks Are Keeping Me Cool
How Hollywood is staving off my musical obsolescence through movie trailers. According to the experts, I am in the waning days of my musical relevance.…
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The Joyous Cinema of Justin Timberlake
Like many performers before him, he’s finally found his niche Justin Timberlake has existed on the edges of cinema for a while now. Guest stints and…
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For Our Consideration: Moonlight for Most Interesting Original Score of the Year
Awards Rejects Nicholas Britell needs recognition, especially if not by the Oscars. Now that Moonlight is a big hit in its limited-release debut, awards talk is…
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For Our Consideration: The Best Uses of Preexisting Music in Movies This Year
Awards Rejects Listen all y’all, it’s “Sabotage” for the win. Every year, the Academy Awards honor the best original song in a movie, and often it’s…
