Watch 80 Free Documentaries from Kino Lorber!
So many Kino Lorber documentaries to watch and you can watch them here. (Thanks, Stephanie, and via Open Culture).
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and the Ecstasy of The Charismatic Voice’s Vocal Analysis
The Charismatic Voice’s Elizabeth Zharoff listens to the Danish National Orchestra’s performance of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly‘s main theme and “The Ecstasy of Gold.” You can watch and listen here. And watch and listen to the uninterrupted performance here.
“The Rule-Breaking Maestro of Noir’s Sound”
Tim Greiving writes about composer Miklós Rózsa at the Criterion blog. “Rózsa was the musical counterpart to Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain, the film’s writers, and Double Indemnity the ur–noir score.” Read more here.
Tribute to Composer Bappi Lahiri
Shemaroo has posted a tribute to Bollywood composer Bappi Lahiri focusing on his disco classics. You can listen here.
“God of Teenage Appetites: The Undeniable Allure of Meat Loaf”
At LitHub, Summer Brennan writes about Meat Loaf and “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That).” “When I saw Meat Loaf’s iconic “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” for the first time on MTV, I had just finished eighth […]
“Meat Loaf was a Butch Lesbian Icon”
At Slate, Evan Urquhart writes about Meat Loaf, Butch Lesbian Icon. “Gay and queer aesthetics are known for stepping outside of stereotypical categories for male/masculine and woman/feminine, but they often they make that step in one fairly predictable direction that we call androgyny. Androgyny is an aesthetic of […]
The Cultural Gutter 