Jon Hassell, the avant-garde composer and trumpet player who collaborated with artists like Talking Heads, Brian Eno and Ry Cooder in addition to his explorations into “Fourth World” music, died Saturday at the age of 84.
“After a little more than a year of fighting through health complications, Jon died peacefully in the early morning hours of natural causes,” Hassell’s family said in a statement on social media.
“His final days were surrounded by family and loved ones who celebrated with him the lifetime of contributions he gave to this world– personally and professionally.
“After a little more than a year of fighting through health complications, Jon died peacefully in the early morning hours of natural causes,” Hassell’s family said in a statement on social media.
“His final days were surrounded by family and loved ones who celebrated with him the lifetime of contributions he gave to this world– personally and professionally.
- 6/27/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Following a listening party on Monday, Deerhoof dropped a surprise new album, Love-Lore, via Joyful Noise Recordings.
Love-Lore was recorded live in the studio over a single afternoon at Rivington Rehearsal Studios in New York City. The album contains a medley of 43 covers, which range from the Velvet Underground to Krzysztof Penderecki.
Muindi Fanuel Muindi wrote an essay to accompany the release, while Benjamin Piekut wrote the liner notes. “Deerhoof is not the future of music and doesn’t want to be — they simply want to embrace you, here and now,...
Love-Lore was recorded live in the studio over a single afternoon at Rivington Rehearsal Studios in New York City. The album contains a medley of 43 covers, which range from the Velvet Underground to Krzysztof Penderecki.
Muindi Fanuel Muindi wrote an essay to accompany the release, while Benjamin Piekut wrote the liner notes. “Deerhoof is not the future of music and doesn’t want to be — they simply want to embrace you, here and now,...
- 9/28/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Tuppence Middleton, star of Fisherman’s Friends, Downton Abbey and Sense8, discusses some of her most memorable scenes.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Current War (2017)
Cinema Paradiso (1991)
Downton Abbey (2019)
Fisherman’s Friends (2019)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
My Life as a Courgette a.k.a. My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
13 Tzameti (2005)
13 (2010)
In Absentia (2000)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Skeletons (2010)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Alien (1979)
Festen a.k.a. The Celebration (1998)
Abigail’s Party (1977)
Der Samurai (2014)
Under The Skin (2013)
Strasbourg 1518 (2020)
The Fall (2019)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
I Live in Fear (1955)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Throne of Blood (1957)
High and Low (1963)
Godzilla (1954)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Possession (1981)
G.I. Blues (1960)
King Creole (1958)
Léolo (1992)
Other Notable Items
War and Peace miniseries (2016)
Giuseppe Tornatore
The Crown TV series (2016- )
Masterpiece Theatre TV series (1971- )
Upstairs Downstairs TV series (1971-1975)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Current War (2017)
Cinema Paradiso (1991)
Downton Abbey (2019)
Fisherman’s Friends (2019)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
My Life as a Courgette a.k.a. My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
13 Tzameti (2005)
13 (2010)
In Absentia (2000)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Skeletons (2010)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Alien (1979)
Festen a.k.a. The Celebration (1998)
Abigail’s Party (1977)
Der Samurai (2014)
Under The Skin (2013)
Strasbourg 1518 (2020)
The Fall (2019)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
I Live in Fear (1955)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Throne of Blood (1957)
High and Low (1963)
Godzilla (1954)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Possession (1981)
G.I. Blues (1960)
King Creole (1958)
Léolo (1992)
Other Notable Items
War and Peace miniseries (2016)
Giuseppe Tornatore
The Crown TV series (2016- )
Masterpiece Theatre TV series (1971- )
Upstairs Downstairs TV series (1971-1975)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus...
- 7/28/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Tony Sokol Nov 12, 2018
Skip The Beatles' "Revolution 9" at your peril. It's music, not noise.
Turn me on dead man.
Long before conspiracy-minded rock fans screwed up their needles playing records backwards, to paraphrase George Carlin, The Beatles’ “Revolution 9” was a spooky experimental tour de force of hidden meaning. Marketed as one of the first boy bands, the mop topped sensations were best known for being at the toppermost of the pops. The ultimate pop band was also at the forefront of the rising underground scene.
While The Beatles are best known for writing love songs, not only catchy romantic ditties, but songs about the larger concept of love, they had a very dark side to their output that defied easy categories. John Lennon could be particularly scary. He forced George Harrison to arrange a guitar solo that had to sound better backwards on “I’m only Sleeping,” and shoveled...
Skip The Beatles' "Revolution 9" at your peril. It's music, not noise.
Turn me on dead man.
Long before conspiracy-minded rock fans screwed up their needles playing records backwards, to paraphrase George Carlin, The Beatles’ “Revolution 9” was a spooky experimental tour de force of hidden meaning. Marketed as one of the first boy bands, the mop topped sensations were best known for being at the toppermost of the pops. The ultimate pop band was also at the forefront of the rising underground scene.
While The Beatles are best known for writing love songs, not only catchy romantic ditties, but songs about the larger concept of love, they had a very dark side to their output that defied easy categories. John Lennon could be particularly scary. He forced George Harrison to arrange a guitar solo that had to sound better backwards on “I’m only Sleeping,” and shoveled...
- 4/18/2018
- Den of Geek
Mubi is presenting the Brothers Quay, a 4-film program playing in the United States July and August 2016, featuring new restorations of Anamorphosis (1991) and Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1987) and brand new 2k and 4k scans of The Comb (1990) and In Absentia (2000). In Absentia (2000) presents a demon in color. The creature is horned, hooved balsa wood, its room lit by a calm sun. It waves its hoof over a pile of black dust to recombine it into graphite nibs. Somewhere above, below, on the material plane, or possibly in a parallel reality, a woman scribbles in soft black and white, breaking pencils over and over. She presses the little lead bullets into a pile of dirt on her windowsill, like a garden or graveyard—an offering or a sacrifice. In her world, light pulses and skitters, glides and ricochets, sometimes across walls and sometimes across invisible planes. The sun forms impossible palimpsests in her room,...
- 7/26/2016
- MUBI
Tony Conrad, 1983. Photo by Joe Gibbons.Tony Conrad, who passed away on April 9 aged 76, was a vital figure in the fields of both filmmaking and music. His work in each is often characterized by its visceral power, its clear-eyed critique of Western art traditions, its interest in social questions and relations of control, its technical virtuosity and wit.Conrad was an indisputable innovator. His film works, beginning with The Flicker (1966) and continuing through, the Yellow Movies (1973), Film Feedback (1974), the ‘cooked film’ and ‘pickled film’ series, and many others, pushing the medium to its inner and outer limits: exploring the potential of long durations, stroboscopic effects, the physical properties of celluloid, the relation of filmmaker to spectator, the relation of film to other arts and to history. Conrad also created a vast number of video works, reflecting the same incisive energy. Too seldom referred to in contemporary writing about experimental film,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Yusef Sayed
- MUBI
The Quay Brothers In 35Mm screens this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (April 22nd. 23rd, and 24th) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood, Webster Groves, Mo 63119). The program begins each evening at 7:30.
Christopher Nolan has launched some of the most ambitious blockbusters of the past decade including Inception, Interstellar and his Batman trilogy. The filmmaker’s newest project has nothing to do with his own films. Screening this weekend at Webster University, The Quay Brothers In 35mm is a dazzling collection of experimental shorts from identical twin stop-motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. Curated by Nolan himself, and including his new eight-minute short film, Quay, the program finds Nolan using his international recognition to shine a spotlight on two of the most visionary animators working in cinema today.
The program consists of Nolan’s 8-minute documentary about the Quays and three shorts by the Brothers Quay:
In Absentia...
Christopher Nolan has launched some of the most ambitious blockbusters of the past decade including Inception, Interstellar and his Batman trilogy. The filmmaker’s newest project has nothing to do with his own films. Screening this weekend at Webster University, The Quay Brothers In 35mm is a dazzling collection of experimental shorts from identical twin stop-motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. Curated by Nolan himself, and including his new eight-minute short film, Quay, the program finds Nolan using his international recognition to shine a spotlight on two of the most visionary animators working in cinema today.
The program consists of Nolan’s 8-minute documentary about the Quays and three shorts by the Brothers Quay:
In Absentia...
- 4/19/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I noticed that even as 99% of my Facebook friends were eulogizing the late David Bowie in reverential terms, there were a few dissenters. Aside from a non-musical issue*, the most negative thing I saw about Bowie was along the lines of "I never cared/listened/understood the attraction." It's kind of passive-aggressive, since there's not much point to alerting us all to the fact that you are apparently apathetic yet somehow still feel we all need to hear from you on this trending topic, but it's pretty low-key, so whatever.
Then Glenn Frey died, and a much larger portion of the internet decided that this was the perfect time to remind us how much they hate the Eagles, how bad the Eagles' music is, and how clueless the rest of us are for apparently being deluded into liking them.
Hey, it's okay to not like the Eagles. It's also okay...
Then Glenn Frey died, and a much larger portion of the internet decided that this was the perfect time to remind us how much they hate the Eagles, how bad the Eagles' music is, and how clueless the rest of us are for apparently being deluded into liking them.
Hey, it's okay to not like the Eagles. It's also okay...
- 1/19/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Wednesday night at New York City's Film Forum, Christopher Nolan premiered his new short documentary about the Brothers Quay — a pair of legendary experimental animators — and afterward took the stage with them to discuss their work. The occasion was opening night of a touring 35mm program of Brothers Quay films, which was curated by Nolan and will be at Film Forum through Tuesday. It features three of the Quays’ best-known shorts — 2000’s Karlheinz Stockhausen–scored reverie of madness In Absentia, the playfully degenerate 1990 film Comb, and the noirish nightmare Street of Crocodiles (1986), possibly their masterpiece.Nolan’s film, simply titled Quay, makes no attempts to replicate the animators’ much-imitated style. Instead, it shows Timothy and Stephen Quay — identical twins, in case you were wondering — at their studio in England, discussing their craft. As anyone who has seen even a minute of their footage can tell you, the...
- 8/21/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
It’s a cliche to say that there aren’t many filmmakers quite like insert-director’s name, but in the case of the American identical directing duo known as the Quay Brothers, there truly isn’t another voice in the world of cinema that is quite like theirs.
For over 30 years, the pair of Pennsylvania-born filmmakers have been turning out some of cinema’s most original and breathtakingly unforgettable feature films, mixing a love for Eastern European literature with an equally deep affinity for puppetry and stop motion animation. Marked by a dark sense of humor and an assured hand in mixing live action and animation, the Brothers Quay have, with films like The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes, become some of the most interesting names in the world of film, genre be damned.
However, as the medium of short film becomes more and more widespread and well regarded, a new...
For over 30 years, the pair of Pennsylvania-born filmmakers have been turning out some of cinema’s most original and breathtakingly unforgettable feature films, mixing a love for Eastern European literature with an equally deep affinity for puppetry and stop motion animation. Marked by a dark sense of humor and an assured hand in mixing live action and animation, the Brothers Quay have, with films like The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes, become some of the most interesting names in the world of film, genre be damned.
However, as the medium of short film becomes more and more widespread and well regarded, a new...
- 8/19/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
La Monte Young has a different relationship to time from the rest of us. His music goes on for a long time — that’s objectively true, and it feels even longer if, like many people, you find it boring. He’s credited as the vastly influential father of minimalism because when he was 22, in 1958, he wrote the first piece that held notes for a long period, suspended in air to allow examination and contemplation. His best-known work, The Well-Tuned Piano, is a solo performance that has grown in length from three and a half hours to five to, last time he played it, nearly six and a half. (It would have been longer, but he rushed a few parts.) When he was young, Young shocked Karlheinz Stockhausen by strolling in two hours late for the intimidating composer’s morning composition class in Darmstadt, Germany. For some time, Young lived on...
- 7/2/2015
- by Rob Tannenbaum
- Vulture
Polish composer of film music best known for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Death and the Maiden, and The Pianist
Very few 20th-century classical composers set out with the intention of writing music for films. Wojciech Kilar, who has died of cancer aged 81, was no exception. Would he ever have dreamed, when he was studying composition in Poland, that he would later go on to score more than 100 films and build his reputation on that body of work rather than in the concert hall? It took Kilar more than 30 years of composing music for Polish films before he became internationally recognised because of his creepy score for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The acclaim that Kilar accrued from his music for Coppola's pyrotechnical horror movie led to work on other widely shown English-language films, such as Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and three by Polish-born Roman Polanski...
Very few 20th-century classical composers set out with the intention of writing music for films. Wojciech Kilar, who has died of cancer aged 81, was no exception. Would he ever have dreamed, when he was studying composition in Poland, that he would later go on to score more than 100 films and build his reputation on that body of work rather than in the concert hall? It took Kilar more than 30 years of composing music for Polish films before he became internationally recognised because of his creepy score for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The acclaim that Kilar accrued from his music for Coppola's pyrotechnical horror movie led to work on other widely shown English-language films, such as Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and three by Polish-born Roman Polanski...
- 1/7/2014
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Though French composer Jean Barraqué (January 17, 1928 - August 17, 1973) was not destined to be the best-known of the post-wwii Serialists, he was perhaps the most dedicated to 12-tone technique. Though this naturally limited his appeal to mainstream listeners, it did make his life's work more coherent than, for instance, Karlheinz Stockhausen's. It is also considerably more concentrated. Due to the painstaking compositional process inherent in his sizeable and extremely complex works, alcoholism, a 1964 car accident, and a 1968 house fire, and his early demise of a cerebral hæmorrhage, Barraqué's published output comprises just seven completed pieces, not counting juvenilia. Yet the concentrated essence of those works is so intense that in total they seem quite a satisfactory output for the two-decade span of his career.
Barraqué's family moved to Paris when he was three years old. Eventually he studied there with Jean Langlais and Olivier Messiaen; it was the latter who prompted Barraqué's interest in Serialism.
Barraqué's family moved to Paris when he was three years old. Eventually he studied there with Jean Langlais and Olivier Messiaen; it was the latter who prompted Barraqué's interest in Serialism.
- 1/17/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
If you’ve seen Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn‘s culty arthouse noir starring Ryan Gosling, you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say Nightcall immediately and effectively set the tone for the entire film. Music turned out to play an unexpectedly important role in the movie, but then again, what about that movie ended up as expected?
I loved Drive and could gush about it here all day, but if I did that I’d never get around to telling you the good news. Johnny Jewel, the mastermind behind Drive‘s brilliant soundtrack and part of the featured Chromatics and Desire, just released Symmetry: Themes for an Imaginary Film. At 2.5 hours long, it’s every bit as 80′s synth-driven as the real film score we’ve come to love, plus we’ve got it streaming free. Check it out below.
This 36-track work is a behemoth, and I...
I loved Drive and could gush about it here all day, but if I did that I’d never get around to telling you the good news. Johnny Jewel, the mastermind behind Drive‘s brilliant soundtrack and part of the featured Chromatics and Desire, just released Symmetry: Themes for an Imaginary Film. At 2.5 hours long, it’s every bit as 80′s synth-driven as the real film score we’ve come to love, plus we’ve got it streaming free. Check it out below.
This 36-track work is a behemoth, and I...
- 12/26/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The Five Best Pop-Cultural Responses to 9/11 This article contains exactly zero weeping eagles. By Jonathan Weed A few days after September 11, 2001, the avant-garde German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called the September 11 attacks "the biggest work of art there has ever been." Like many statements made by avant-garde German composers, this is ludicrous. His impulse, though, to find some artistic meaning inside the attacks is a natural one: it's what artists do after tragedies. Here are the five best artistic responses to the September 11 attacks. When you're done with these, you'll be pleased to know that we've also selected the five worst. 5. “9/11/2001” New Yorker cover, Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly On Sepetmber 11, 2001, Françoise Mouly, the art editor for the New Yorker, got a phone call saying that she needed to find an artist as quickly as possible to create a new cover for [...]...
- 9/9/2011
- by Jonathan Weed
- Nerve
Updated through 5/21.
This afternoon, the Board of Directors of the Cannes Film Festival released a statement that's shocked cinephiles and, going by the activity on the wires, the world's press corps as well as fans of Lars von Trier and the Festival alike. What follows is the statement, a bit of context and a sampling of some of the immediate reaction.
First, the statement:
The Festival de Cannes provides artists from around the world with an exceptional forum to present their works and defend freedom of expression and creation. The Festival’s Board of Directors, which held an extraordinary meeting this Thursday 19 May 2011, profoundly regrets that this forum has been used by Lars Von Trier to express comments that are unacceptable, intolerable, and contrary to the ideals of humanity and generosity that preside over the very existence of the Festival.
The Board of Directors firmly condemns these comments and declares...
This afternoon, the Board of Directors of the Cannes Film Festival released a statement that's shocked cinephiles and, going by the activity on the wires, the world's press corps as well as fans of Lars von Trier and the Festival alike. What follows is the statement, a bit of context and a sampling of some of the immediate reaction.
First, the statement:
The Festival de Cannes provides artists from around the world with an exceptional forum to present their works and defend freedom of expression and creation. The Festival’s Board of Directors, which held an extraordinary meeting this Thursday 19 May 2011, profoundly regrets that this forum has been used by Lars Von Trier to express comments that are unacceptable, intolerable, and contrary to the ideals of humanity and generosity that preside over the very existence of the Festival.
The Board of Directors firmly condemns these comments and declares...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
Getty Ida No of Glass Candy
The songs of Glass Candy may be unfamiliar to many listeners, but their sound is undeniably recognizable: in 2007, the group’s album “B/E/A/T/B/O/X” combined old-school dance music and contemporary electronica to create a bottom-heavy, idiosyncratic but irresistible sound that has since infiltrated mainstream r&b, pop and even rock.
Whether they gave artists like La Roux, Lady Gaga and others the idea for that sound or simply got...
The songs of Glass Candy may be unfamiliar to many listeners, but their sound is undeniably recognizable: in 2007, the group’s album “B/E/A/T/B/O/X” combined old-school dance music and contemporary electronica to create a bottom-heavy, idiosyncratic but irresistible sound that has since infiltrated mainstream r&b, pop and even rock.
Whether they gave artists like La Roux, Lady Gaga and others the idea for that sound or simply got...
- 2/26/2011
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
I don't hate the Beatles in the least bit, but for a long time I did take an unpopular position against them, mostly just as a knee jerk reaction against the mainstream. All the cheap merchandise, the overexposure, the boppy fans who just listen to what is fed to them over the radio and don't make much effort to educate themselves about music... it can really start to weigh on a guy. Sometimes you have to lash out and loudly declare that the "Beatles suck, this record is overplayed suck," at your girlfriend's birthday party when she puts on "Sgt. Pepper's," her favorite album, and just stand there drinking bourbon straight from the bottle while her horrified girlfriends look on.
Yeah, nobody likes that guy. But sometimes, you have to shake people up, open their eyes for their own good. With the Beatles on iTunes now we can only expect...
Yeah, nobody likes that guy. But sometimes, you have to shake people up, open their eyes for their own good. With the Beatles on iTunes now we can only expect...
- 12/6/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film Walkabout is an atmospheric tale of self-discovery that welds lush sound and visuals to a cryptic narrative. A new Criterion DVD and Blu-Ray release represents the third time the company has released Walkabout in the past 13 years. Those who own an older version will certainly want to upgrade because the new restored transfer is splendid.
In the film, a very chatty boy (Lucien Roeg, billed here as Lucien John) and his older sister (Jenny Agutter) are left to die in the Australian outback by their father. After the English siblings wander deep into the wilds with little food and water, they meet an aborigine (David Gulpill), who is undergoing a walkabout: a ritualistic journey wherein aboriginal males wander alone to fend for themselves. The pair tag along on the boy's journey, which takes them to places both strange and familiar. Even though the circumstances brings them together,...
In the film, a very chatty boy (Lucien Roeg, billed here as Lucien John) and his older sister (Jenny Agutter) are left to die in the Australian outback by their father. After the English siblings wander deep into the wilds with little food and water, they meet an aborigine (David Gulpill), who is undergoing a walkabout: a ritualistic journey wherein aboriginal males wander alone to fend for themselves. The pair tag along on the boy's journey, which takes them to places both strange and familiar. Even though the circumstances brings them together,...
- 5/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The first decade of the new millennium would see an abundance of cinematic treasures, disasters and all things in between. It was the decade in which the Webbed-Wonder swung through the streets of New York and battled the Green Goblin, Doc-Ock, Sandman and Venom. It would be the decade of torture porn. It would be the decade in which The Matrix sequels thoroughly disappointed. It would be the decade Michael Bay came into his own as the purveyor of crash-bang action flicks and discovered the photogenic quality of Megan Fox’s ass. It would be the decade that many screen icons left us, whilst others were made. It would be the decade that belonged to high school musicals, vampires, wizards, hobbits and superheroes. It would be the decade that saw the return of Indiana Jones and would see the last screen performance of Clint Eastwood. So many films, so many hours.
- 12/15/2009
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
In its 27 years, the London-based music magazine The Wire—whose function has been to treat German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, astral-jazz shaman Sun Ra, and dubstep pioneer Kode9 as pop stars—has found an enviable niche as one of the few newsstand titles in its league continuing to thrive as more mainstream-minded titles go belly-up. Besides catering to a hard core of music lovers who think there’s more to life and listening than the umpteenth Beatles cover story, The Wire runs essential regular features like Invisible Jukebox (name-that-tune sessions that expand into discussions of the interviewee’s career and ...
- 11/5/2009
- avclub.com
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