The Queen’s Film Theatre are running a series of special Sunday afternoon events for families on the topic of ‘transformation’. The programme offers families to transform Sunday afternoon with a pair of free tickets to see Stand by Me, Juno or Son of Rambow this Spring at the Belfast Theatre.
This Sunday sees the 81st Annual Academy Awards and there is no doubt it has been a great year for film. In an attempt to predict the outcome of the awards GetCloser (The Music and Film Social Network) carried out a poll of their 9000 users with some very interesting results.
Everyone has their reasons – some of us love ‘Star Wars’ because it reminds us of childhood, others are Kieslowski purists because sometimes only a Polish film about mystic coincidences will do, still others feel that cinema history began with ‘Pulp Fiction’.
We recently wrote about the influence music has on the moving image being watched. Eddie Vedder’s soundtrack for Into the Wild is a perfect example of the synergy between the two mediums. Growing up I’ve studied both music and film production and probably now only realise the amount of cross discipline influence that exists in all art forms.
Well back to the musing about the link between and film. Firstly if you are looking for an en-depth study of film or a look at the relationship between twentieth century classics and the charts this is, perhaps the wrong post for you.
Anyone who grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s will know that even back then music piracy was condemned. LPs and CDs would come with a tape and cross-bones stickers (see below) on the front and often also the back reminding us that copying music was a crime and in fact “killing in music”.
Eddie Vedder is renowned for his powerful vocal style and intelligent lyrical content fronting Seattle grunge pioneers, Pearl Jam. ‘Into The Wild’, the soundtrack to the Sean Penndirected film of the same name, is Vedder’s debut solo album.
