Twenty years ago, Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! brought life back to movie musicals. While they had been a staple of the 1950s and ’60s, they lost popularity over the decades. Then in 2001, Luhrmann wowed the world with this original…
5 Great Movies With Anachronistic Soundtracks
Anachronistic: belonging-to-a-period-other-than-in-which-it-exists. Anachronistic soundtrack: the sexiest kind of film score. Almost every movie uses its soundtrack to create emotion, feeling, tone, and texture. Historical films usually involve music the same way they do costumes: to help transport us to another…
Who Should Re-Cover “Lady Marmalade”?
It’s a Friday night in my living room. Somehow blessed with an early 2000s video countdown, my two friends and I can barely hear it. We’re in the middle of a heated argument, the catalyst being the music video for…
Jon’s Movie Review: The Great Gatsby 3D
The Roaring 20’s were full of drinking, dancing and debauchery. It was all about style and jazz music, which just so happens to be what 80% of what Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby was all about. That’s not at all…