Posts Tagged ‘VHS Or Beta?’

Daft Punk Turn Down The Volume

12:00 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008 by andybetablog

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the recent film by the Frenchmen Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, Daft Punk’s Electroma:

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Robert Altman Turns On His Radio

12:30 PM on Fri Aug 29 2008 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the sounds of two mid-’70s movies by famed director Robert Altman, California Split and Thieves Like Us:

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“Wall-E” Pushes The Right Buttons

10:00 AM on Fri Aug 1 2008 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the music that serves as the backdrop to Wall-E’s scorched earth:

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The Sun City Girls’ Alan Bishop Goes To The Movies

10:00 AM on Fri May 23 2008 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he talks to fellow film-music obsessive Alan Bishop about Ennio Morricone, underheralded score composers, and the work his group the Sun City Girls did on Harmony Korine’s latest movie, Mister Lonely:

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Wong Kar Wai Ladles Out A Few Blueberry-Stuffed Lullabyes

12:00 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he travels along America’s byways with Wong Kar Wai and his first English-language feature, My Blueberry Nights:

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Jackie Chan And A Cat That Has Super-Flanged Claws

11:30 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he stumbles across the Jackie Chan movie Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow on a late-night channel surf in China:

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The New York City Rhythms Of “Taxi Driver”

9:30 AM on Fri Jan 18 2008 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the music from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic Taxi Driver:

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Jonny Greenwood Finds Black Gold At The End Of His Rainbow

1:00 AM on Fri Dec 28 2007 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the Jonny Greenwood-composed music that scores Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood:

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The Oscillations And Pulses Behind “The Andromeda Strain”

1:30 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he listens to the long-out-of-print–yet oddly of the moment–score for the 1971 bioterror thriller The Andromeda Strain.

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The Hidden Music Of Cassavetes’ “Faces”

12:10 PM on Fri Nov 30 2007 by andybeta

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he listens to the music behind John Cassavetes’ 1968 “expression of horror at our society in general” Faces.

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