A look at "Stoop Rap" as performed by Double Trouble in the seminal hip-hop movie Wild Style.
Continue reading Audio Commentary: Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1983).
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A look at "Stoop Rap" as performed by Double Trouble in the seminal hip-hop movie Wild Style.
Continue reading Audio Commentary: They Live (John Carpenter, 1988).
A look at the shopping-mall car chase from The Blues Brothers, including some of the recent history of the Dixie Square Shopping Mall.
Continue reading Audio Commentary: The Blues Brothers.
A look at a crucial "dream sequence" from Ingmar Bergman's Persona, drawing on ideas in the book Mindscreen by Bruce Kawin and putting it in context with the rest of the film.
Continue reading Audio Commentary: Persona (Bergman, 1966).
Continue reading Audio Commentary: Prospero's Books (Greenaway, 1991).
A look at a fight sequence from Drunken Master 2, including a brief comparison of the original Hong Kong audio and the dubbed, re-scored, and re-foleyed U.S. release version.
Continue reading Audio Commentary: Drunken Master 2 (Lau, 1994).
A look at the opening titles sequence for Se7en; some of the work by Joel-Peter Witkin, Stan Brakhage, and Norman McLaren that inspired it; and the Mark Romanek music video for "Closer," which served, in a remixed version, as the movie's theme song.
Continue reading Audio Commentary: Se7en (Fincher, 1995).
