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...muses on their devalued idol: "Reduced to a netherworldly C-lister, nowadays the Devil ekes out a living making guest appearances at black mass and Belgian metal concerts. Enough to make anybody think twice about drinking goat's blood." Baker's fantastical prose, with its references to gangster and pop culture, recalls contemporary Japanese writers like the Murakamis (Haruki and Ryu), as well as the netherworlds of anime and manga - though her characters are hardly cartoons. Sato, who retains his dignity through crippling setbacks, could have stepped from the delicate pages of Kazuo Ishiguro or Jane Austen. Watanabe, resourceful despite...
Certainly, Hollywood’s general reliance on a pop music sensibility is a fantastic trend, and one that, for better or worse, made it impossible to go back to the “pure score” (Titanic’s “My Heart Will Go On” has shown us why). But Badly Drawn Boy’s soundtrack for About a Boy (a fitting title) was a masterful use of music both fitting the plot material, and fitting around...
...Brion—who has produced for Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, and about three dozen others—is exceptional at producing movie “pop” that isn’t the product of a sell-out (I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Pop music does have a place in the movies, and a very important place. I just don’t want that place to be in music videos masquerading as films...
...Damiano—and begins grabbing at socio-historical miscellany to spice things up. The resulting mishmash of music, fashion, and other cultural trivia resembles a bad VH1 “I Love the (insert date here)” special, when the demigods of yesterday’s pop-culture are dragged out and rehashed for those of us who’d either never cared or had forgotten...
...Game interrupted hung-over Leverettites’ brunches to ask them this very important question: “If you could go to the Oscars with anyone you wanted, and wear anything you wanted, what would you do?” In a testament to Harvard students’ pop-culture apathy, a depressing amount of people said they didn’t care about Hollywood or didn’t know enough to comment. Here are the ones that said other stuff. Beyonce was curiously prevalent...