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Nine standout Sundance films that we hope make it to streaming services soon FacebookTwitterEmail "Judas and the Black Messiah" screened at the Sundance Film Festival and will premiere on HBO Max on Feb. 12.Glen Wilson Like most everything in 2020 and 2021, the Sundance Film Festival looked very different. The cancellation of in-person screenings in Park City, Utah undoubtedly disappointed regular attendees, but the show went on, with screenings at drive-ins across the country (including Fort M...

By Keefer Feb 1, 2021 1949 - RCA Records issued the first ever 45rpm single, the invention of this size record made jukeboxes possible. 1967 - At Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles started work on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles consciously synthesized such disparate influences as psychedelia, art-song, classical music, rock & roll, and music hall, often in the course of one song. After Sgt. Pepper, there were no rules to follow -- rock and pop bands could try anything...

‘The Sparks Brothers’ Film Review: Edgar Wright Makes Playful Documentary About Elusive Band Sparks Sundance 2021: Wright tackles the idiosyncratic, influential band without ever giving away too much or losing an air of mysterySteve Pond | January 30, 2021 @ 5:30 PM AWARDS BEAT Courtesy of the Sundance Institute Near the beginning of Edgar Wright’s documentary “The Sparks Brothers,” actor Jason Schwartzman comes on screen to make an unusual admission. “Honestly, I don’t want ...

Edgar Wright's debut documentary 'The Sparks Brothers' chronicles the decades-long career of the hugely influential cult band Sparks.

How to introduce an entity as mercurial as Sparks, the band that forms the subject of Edgar Wright’s fantastic, fond, fizzy documentary portrait, to those who don’t know them? With over five decades and 25 albums’ worth of music, sibling frontmen Ron and Russell Mael have been virtually the only constant in a group whose

Any hardcore music nerd is familiar with the urge to share your passion for your favorite band with the uninitiated — and the attendant frustration and heartbreak that often comes from it. For years, Edgar Wright, the English director of films including “Shaun of the Dead,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and “Baby Driver,” would routinely try to engage with people about his love for trail-blazing cult band Sparks only to be met with blank stares. Since their breakout in 1974 with t...

Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images; FG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images; Emil Ravelo/Getty Images; Scott Dudelson/Getty Images 1 A performer inside The Box, a long-running living tableau at The Standard. “It was always populated with interesting people. Robert Sherman, the famous Mapplethorpe model, was in The Box every Saturday night,” says Bryan Rabin. 2 The hotel opened with investors who included Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz. 3 A Pride pool party hosted by Patrick Starr in ...

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100 Greatest Movie Songs From 100 Years of Film By Chris Compendio, Stacker News On 1/16/21 at 11:00 AM EST While visuals are a huge part of what ultimately defines movies, it is the combination of imagery and sound that completes the full cinematic experience. Even before the advent of "talking pictures" in the late 1920s, musical scores accompanied films in one way or another, whether it was through live accompaniment from a performer or a synchronized gramophone record system. As the film...

Craig Mack Sean “Puffy” Combs was a whiz at using the remix as a marketing device. This version of his Bad Boy label’s first single kept Easy Mo Bee’s loping beat but passed the mic between Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, Rampage and the Notorious BIG. Poor Craig Mack became the bridesmaid on his own track. No Big Love lost ... Tango in the Night-era Fleetwood Mac. Photograph: Alamy Big Love (Extended Remix) – 1987 Fleetwood Mac Despite the ingenious efforts of Shep Pettibone and François K...