I got sidetracked by the soundtrack: musical lingerings of various films Shannon Cheng October 21, 2024 Columns and Opinions, Film, Staff Pick While going through the Bridget Jones trilogy, I was in awe of the song choices—especially in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), when “I’m Not in Love” by 10cc was played. It was the perfect comb...
A Personal Reflection on the 2023 Oscars Best Score Category Ashley Mauldin March 21, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Film, Music Composition, Oscars While the Best Song category at the Oscars this year had an absolute triumph, with song “Nattu Nattu” winning from the movie RRR, the Best Score category seemed to fall flat in comparison to the star-studde...
Music as media in Downfalls High Amber Ellertson February 21, 2021 Columns and Opinions, Film, Reviews Machine Gun Kelly, or MGK, released the wildly successful pop-punk album, Tickets to My Downfall, in September of 2020. In January 2021, he directed and released a 50-minute masterpiece of a short film, Downfal...
To be or not to be cool Luke Dominick December 3, 2019 Creative Writing, Film TO BE OR NOT TO BE COOL Me and My Girlfriend’s War of Music EXT. WORLD - ANYTIME The apotheosis of a great battle is near at hand, the climax of a great debate is approaching. Two people, a boy and a girl,...
BACH and VAPORWAVE Luke Dominick November 1, 2019 Blog, Columns and Opinions, Film In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a series of six concertos, now considered a pillar of the classical music canon. The power and grace with which Bach crafted and melded each melodic line remains unparallele...
High Maintenance meets Higher Education: the best places to listen to the HBO show’s soundtrack in Berkeley Julius Miller April 10, 2019 Film, Multimedia, Uncategorized Disclaimer: Please go watch High Maintenance so that in 20 years, you can say you watched the show of our generation while it was live. High Maintenance captures people, it captures the idiosyncratic yet th...
Mylo Mu spreads his seeds in The Ebonic Garden Shelby Mayes July 29, 2017 Columns and Opinions, Film, Interview Soft trumpet melodies gently weave their way throughout the room accompanied by an original beat loop. A plain space with white walls is transformed into an eclectic garden with a wide array of flowers in the f...
Alive Inside Vivian Chen April 26, 2016 Columns and Opinions, Film When I came here, I lost all of my music. My world became this facility. After eight years of being here, I finally had the opportunity to get my music… And all of a sudden, vistas which I thought were closed...
Noise Pop 2015: Director Scott Crawford talks punk rock doc Salad Days Audrey Gertz February 19, 2015 Film, Interview, News Though he may not be doing stage dives at Kingface shows anymore, director Scott Crawford is still a devout punk pundit. His recent feature Salad Days: The Birth of Punk Rock in the Nation’s Capital docu...
Watch: Mistaken For Strangers at The Roxie Audrey Gertz March 28, 2014 Film, The Weekend Menu Mistaken For Strangers Fast off a two-day showing of the must-see Slint documentary, San Francisco's Roxie Theater has another treat for rock film fans. Starting tonight March 28th through April 3rd, Bay Are...