Anyway, to the music: I "grew up" loving the the way directors like Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson used music in their movies (probably because they were both incendiary enough to use Sigur Ros in their soundtracks), but I have since changed a little bit. I still love a soundtrack full of obscure 60's British Invasion songs and German models turned singers, of course, but I'm not necessarily going to love your movie just because the soundtrack includes cool music. Sorry, Zach Braff.
So, I have here, four movies that came out semi-recently, and each use music that is potent and moving. All of these movies were some of the very best I've seen in a while, and the music was a huge part of why they worked so well.
Rachel Getting Married
"Unknown Legend" (Neil Young cover)
by Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio (mp3)
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The Visitor
"Je'nwi Teni (Don't Gag Me)"
by Fela Anikulapo Kuti (mp3)
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The Wrestler
"The Wrestler"
by Bruce Springsteen (mp3)
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Into The Wild
"Hard Sun" (Indio cover)
by Eddie Vedder (mp3)
This is Ben Rucker by the way. Grant invited me here. Thanks Grant!
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4 comments:
benjamin, welcome to the blog.
the wrestler has been sitting on my counter in a netflix envelope for the past month. i really need to watch that.
nice list. i didn't realize that nico was a fashion model before she started her musical career...ah, how little i know of new york art in the 60's...
glad to have you, ben.
Nice post Ben - glad you're part of the blog! Oh - and Will - The Wrestler is intense, and really, really sad. Not that it's a bad movie or anything...it's just really sad. seriously.
Yea, all these movies are really, really sad actually. I guess I just like depressing stuff. Maybe I should have included I Love You, Man. I like that movie, too. And they went to a Rush concert in the movie. Anybody like Rush?
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