Entries Tagged as ‘Film’

April 12, 2008

Young@Heart

Young@Heart is a British-made documentary profiling The Young@Heart Chorus of Massachusetts, a choir of elderly men and women who cover songs by groups like The Ramones, Sonic Youth, The Bee Gees, Talking Heads, and The Clash. It’s funny and it’s sad and it’s wonderful. And it’s the best film I’ve seen in ages!

March 9, 2008

Brutus Jones: “Trouble Is My Buddy”

emperor jones posterA look at the 1933 pre-code Hollywood version of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones,” starring Paul Robeson and feauturing a predominantly black cast.

June 23, 2002

PURPLE RAIN

Purple Rain microphoneIt took me almost two decades to finally watch Prince’s Purple Rain. Was it worth it? Why isn’t Morris Day more famous? Why bring Isadora Duncan into it?