Bettie Page

Η απόλυτη bondage θεά των 50's σε μια πολυ καλή βιογραφική ταινία, με την Gretchen Mol να ενσαρκώνει την Bettie Page, ίσως το πρώτο sex symbol της Αμερικής.


Tracklist

1.Opening (Mark Suozzo)
2.Sexy Ways (Hank Ballard & The Midnighters)
3.Blues In (Art Pepper)
4.One Kiss Too Many (Eddy Arnold)
5.Waiting Room / Nashville Memories (Mark Suozzo)
6.Life’s Railway To Heaven (Patsy Cline)
7.Sashaying On The Sabbath (Mark Suozzo)
8.Skokiaan (Pérez Prado)
9.An Occasional Man (Jeri Southern)
10.Jordu (Clifford Brown & Max Roach)
11.I Surrender, Dear (Artie Shaw)
12.Smut Probe (Mark Suozzo)
13.Mucha Muchacha (Esquivel)
14.Love Chant (Charles Mingus)
15.Dance Of The Insects (Jean-Claude Petit)
16.Gone With The Wind (Julie London)
17.Dress For The Lord (Mark Suozzo)
18.Blue Tango (Leroy Anderson)
19.(Do You Intend To Put An End To) A Sweet Beginning Like This (Fats Waller)


The Notorious Bettie Page [Mark Suozzo](Lakeshore Records,2006)

Lisbon Story

Wenders' story of Lisbon is not your average film portrait. It is a portrait of a city done in sound, through a soundman discovering one of Europe's most dazzling metropoles. Asked for help by his Lisbon-based director friend Monroe (Patrick Bauchau), German sound specialist Philipp Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) travels to Lisbon where he finds the flat of his friend deserted: Monroe has mysteriously vanished and left only his unfinished film behind him. Philipp takes on a unique excursion through the Poruguese capital, strolling aimlessly through Lisbon, capturing with his microphone a wide scale of city sound - Lisbon, the way you've never heard (or seen) it before.


After concentrating on the human eye and visual perception in his films, Until the End of the World (1990) and Faraway so Close (1991), German director Wim Wenders, formally one of the leading representatives of young German cinema of the 70s and a respected and influential filmmaker of the 80s and 90s, now centres on the world of sound: giving it song and noise, the melodies and voices which accompany the urban experience proving an unusual cinematic exposure.

Although Wenders, who won the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas in 1984, and the Best Director award three years later in Cannes for Wings of Desire, confesses that Lisbon Story was shot without script, his portrayal of the city is dominated by characteristic Wender motives and themes as anxiety and alienation. Dedicated to the late Frederico Fellini, Lisbon Story can also be understood as a homage to the centenary of film: in its shots, which resemble the charmingly awkward style of movies from the pioneer days of filming, soundman Philpp's eccentric humour recalls the king of slapstick, Buster Keaton. Developing slowly and focussing more on images, emotions and thought than on action, Lisbon Story holds a special gimmick for Wender's film buffs: Monroe is a character from Wender's 1980 film State of Things.
As ever, the soundtrack for Wender's latest is distinctive: Lisbon Story features the popular Portuguese band, Madredeus, a band which combines traditional folklore material with elements of modern music, created by using acoustic guitars, a cello accordion, keyboards and the clear voice of Teresa Salgueiro. The importance of this lively and breathtakingly melancholic music is underlined by the fact that only after Philipp Winter has fallen in love with the lead singer's voice does he then fall in love with Teresa Salgueiro, the band's lead singer Silke Schütze.

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Tracklisting

1.Guitarra
2.Milagre
3.Céu da Mouraria
4.Miradouro de Santa Catarina
5.A Cidade e os Campos
6.O Tejo
7.Viagens Interditas
8.Alfama
9.Ainda
10.Maio Maduro Maio


Lisbon Story (Ainda)[Madredeus] (Blue Note Records,1996)


Madredeus - Guitarra (scene from the movie)

This is England

"..Μια απο τις καλύτερες βρετανικές ταινίες απο την εποχή του Trainspotting.."

Tracklist:

01-Toots & The Maytals – 54-46 was my number
02-Dexys Midnight Runners – Come on Eileen
03-Soft Cell – Tainted love
04-Underpass/flares (movie dialogue)
05-Nicole Gravenhurst
06-Cynth/Dad (movie dialogue)
07-Al Barry & The Cimarons – Morning sun
08-Shoe shop (movie dialogue)
09-Toots & The Maytals – Louie Louie
10-Toots & The Maytals – Pressure drop
11-Hair in Cafe (movie dialogue)
12-The Specials – Do the dog
13-Ludovico Einaudi-Ritornare
14-This is England (movie dialogue)
15-The Upsetters – Return of Django
16-Uk Subs – Warhead
17-Ludovico Einaudi-Fuori dal mondo
18-Strawberry Switchblade-Since yesterday
19-Tits (movie dialogue)
20-Percy Sledge-The dark end of the street
21-Ludovico Einaudi-Oltremare
22-Clayhill-Please please please let me get what I want
23-Ludovico Einaudi-Dietro casa
24-Gavin Clark-Never seen the sea



This is England [Ludovico Einaudi] (Universal UK,2006)

The Brown Bunny

Tracklisting

1. "Come Wander With Me" (Jeff Alexander)
2. "Tears for Dolphy" (Ted Curson)
3. "Milk and Honey" (Jackson C. Frank)
4. "Beautiful" (Gordon Lightfoot)
5. "Smooth" (Matisse/Accardo Quartet)
6. "Forever Away" (John Frusciante)
7. "Dying Song" (John Frusciante)
8. "Leave All the Days Behind" (John Frusciante)
9. "Prostitution Song" (John Frusciante)
10. "Falling" (John Frusciante)



The Brown Bunny [John Frusciante] (Tulip Records,2004)

Les Petits Vacances

"Anchored by a superb performance from the veteran French New Wave actress Bernadette Lafont (The Mother and the Whore), Les Petites Vacances is an absorbing road movie from debut writer/director Olivier Peyon. Lafont plays a sixtysomething ex-teacher, Danielle, who takes her two grandchildren Marine and Thomas (Adele Csech and Lucas Franchi) on an impromptu summer holidays trip to Haute-Savoie region, but is mysteriously reluctant to tell the kids' divorced parents of her itinerary"

BBC




Tracklisting

1.Les petites vacances - ouverture
2.Kantele
3.Tango de l'ombre - la fuite
4.Les vacances
5.La camisa negra (Juanes)
6.Une ville la nuit
7.La fugue
8.La traversée
9.Vague à l'âme
10.Tango de l'ombre - le tunnel
11.Le tourni
12.Despuès la fiesta
13.Como la mariposa (Leyanis Lopez)
14.La traversée - générique final


Les Petits Vacances (Jerome Baur] (Peermusic Recordings,2006)

Pan's Labyrinth

Ο υποψήφιος για Όσκαρ ισπανός συνθέτης Javier Navarrete συνεργάζεται για δεύτερη φορά με τον del Toro (η πρώτη ήταν στο "Devil's Backbone") και βασίζει όλο την μουσική σύνθεση πάνω σε ένα νανούρισμα που πρωταρχικό ρόλο έχουν οι μελώδιες του πιάνο και των βιολιών αλλά και οι παιδικές φωνές που σε μερικά σημεία θυμίζουν το "Rosemary's Baby" του Krzysztof Komeda.


O Del Toro ετοιμάζει για το 2009 και 2010, εκτός απο την δεύτερη συνέχεια του Hellboy, ταίνιες και σε επίπεδο παραγωγής αλλά και σε σκηνοθεσίας αρκετά ενδιαφέρουσες. Το 2009 θα κυκλοφορήσουν, το "3993" (.."A ghost story about 'the hostages left to fortune by the past' set in 1990's Spain and with connections with Spanish Civil War in 1939..") αλλά και το "At the Mountains of Madness" του H.P. Lovecraft. Απο εκεί και πέρα υπάρχουν ακόμα στα σκαριά άλλες δύο ταινίες : το "Doctor Strange" που αφορά έναν ακόμη ήρωα της Marvel αλλά και την συνεργασία με τον Peter Jackson για το prequel του "Άρχοντα των Δαχτυλιδιών".


Tracklisting
1.Long, Long Time Ago (Hace Mucho, Mucho Tiempo)
2.The Labyrinth (El Laberinto)
3.Rose, Dragon (La Rosa y el Dragón)
4.The Fairy and the Labyrinth (El Hada y el Laberinto)
5.Three Trials (Las Tres Pruebas)
6.The Moribund Tree and the Toad (El Árbol Que Muere y el Sapo)
7.Guerilleros (Guerrilleros)
8.A Book of Blood (El Libro de Sangre)
9.Mercedes Lullaby (Nana de Mercedes)
10.The Refuge (El Refugio)
11.Not Human (El Que No Es Humano
12.The River (El Río)
13.A Tale (Un Cuento)
14.Deep Forest (Bosque Profundo)
15.Waltz of the Mandrake (Vals de La Mandrágora)
16.The Funeral (El Funeral)
17.Mercedes (Mercedes)
18.Pan and the Full Moon (La Luna Llena y el Fauno)
19.Ofelia (Ofelia)
20.A Princess (Una Princesa)
21.Pan's Labyrinth Lullaby (Nana del Laberinto del Fauno)


Pan's Labyrinth [Javier Navarrete] (Milan Records,2006)

Breaking & Entering

Την πρώτη απόπειρα των Underworld να ασχοληθούν με την κινηματογραφική μουσική την κάνουν δίπλα σε σίγουρο και δυνατό χαρτί καυ δεν είναι άλλο απο έναν απο τους καλύτερους συνθέτες που υπάρχουν,τον λιβανέζο Gabriel Yared που πρέπει να πλησιάζει τις 100 κινηματογραφικές του συνθέσεις έως σήμερα.Αδύναμη ίσως στα όρια και του αδιάφορου η ταινία του Anthony Mingella που όμως η επιλογή της ιδιότυπης αυτής συνεργασίας για την μουσική της επένδυση κρίνεται πέρα ως πέρα επιτυχημένη.


Traclisting

1.A Thing Happens
2.St Pancras
3.Sad Amira
4.Monkey One
5.Hungerford Bridge
6.We Love Bea
7.Happy Toast
8.Monkey Two
9.Will and Amira
10.Primrose Hill
11.So-Ree
12.Mending Things
13.Broken Entered
14.Piano Modal
15.Counterpoint Hang Pulse


Breaking & Entering [Gabriel Yared & Underworld] (V2 Records,2006)

Persepolis

Those of you familiar with Marjane Satrapi's gorgeous and poignant comic books will no doubt be, as I am, extremely eager to see how these intimate portrayals of life as an outsider translate to the big screen. However on the evidence here in the film's soundtrack composed by Oliver Bernet, at the very least the music sums up her moods and feelings perfectly. A fitting blend of Eastern and Western musical forms, from the sleazy 'Teheran Disco' to the swooping strings of 'Manifestation' there is a sense that we are trapped in-between worlds, a sense that is absolutely aligned with Satrapi's wonderful graphic novels. She is an outsider looking in with humour, grace and mixed emotions, and to translate those feelings to music is a difficult prospect met with a level head by Bernet. With a lightness to his production style which gives the songs an almost lo-fi charm at times this carries the humour of the source material, even when the themes are darker and more melancholy. Lovely indeed.

Boomkat


Tracklisting
1. Persepolis Theme
2. Teheran Disco
3. Tout Ce Qui Est A Vous M'Appartient
4. Manifestations
5. La Bonne Lecon
6. L'Epopee D'Anouche
7. Le Proletariat
8. Va-T'En!
9. La Guerre
10. Master Of the Monsters (50 Toumans)
11. Dans La Vie, Tu Rencontreras Beaucoup De Cons
12. Marche Persane
13. Baleze
14. Rosen Aus Dem Suden (Hormones)
15. Musique De Merde
16. Frenchie
17. Flower Power
18. Love And Hate
19. Sachertorte
20. Eye Of the Tiger
21. Teheran
22. Absurde
23. Clair De Lune
24. Adieu



Persepolis [Olivier Bernet] (EMI Records,2007)