Strickler, Jeff
Rapping means (6) (speak) to the rhythm (节 ) of the music, and it is an important part of the music. People rap (7)(express)how they feel about their lives and problems.Would you like to rap in class? Well, actually,hip pop music (8).) (play) in more than10,000 schools ...
advocating a close and contrapuntal relationship between sound and sight. The Russian film directorSergey Eisensteindescribed his careful collaboration with Prokofiev in makingAlexander Nevsky(1938). His perceptive observations on the potential link between cinematic rhythm andmusical rhythmsuggested a technique...
Gerwig and her collaborators, DP Yorick Le Saux, composer Alexandre Desplat, and editor Nick Houy, animateLittle Womenwith a precise sense of rhythm: its characters run and dance and skate and chatter through scenes that speed and slow and tumble into each other. Few adaptations ofLittle Women...
Soul is not too dark nor is it too trivial. It contains the perfect balance of humanism, darkness, and hope. The title can be construed with a double meaning. Based on the musical angle, the lead character is a piano player, the soul could mean rhythm, but I’m only half right. An...
In the midst of a frozen Minnesota winter, a Japanese drum master and Korean adoptee from North Dakota join forces to assemble the world’s best Taiko drummers in a bold effort to claim a cultural spotlight that has historically been reserved only for men. Their rhythm revo...
7.4/10A double bill of two most famous films of the erstwhile B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer, THE BLACK CAT is a psychological horror corralling Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi for the first time and DETOUR, made one decade later, is a shimmering film noir of a down-on-the-luck man’s ...
The click-clack rhythm of horses, wagon wheels, and, later, gargantuan steam engines: Ennio Morricone’s theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a musical metonym for the American West, a cultural artifact as tied to that mythology as the Red Rocks of Sedona and John Wayne. In ...
This screenshot is medium shot. It emphasises on Charlotte's facial expressions. There is a strong contrast between Charlotte and people who are being busy in the Tokyo's street. The background music uses the real sound of street and a little bit intense rhythm. It expresses the situation ...
The highlight of the film is the main sequence in which Babs holds a birthday party. A male contortionist flexes his anus in rhythm to the song “Surfin’ Bird”, which may be the only film featuring an anus. How Waters got away with some of this stuff is mind-blowing. ...