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Universal Music Enterprises has announced a rollout of 26 individual soundtrack albums on vinyl
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– including John Williams’ scores to E.T. and Jaws; Blaxploitation classics like Willie Hutch’s The Mack, J.J. Johnson’s Willie Dynamite, Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man and the hip-hop-flavored Juice; Oscar® winners such as The Godfather, Silence of the Lambs, Rocky and Good Will Hunting; and cult movies like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Knights, John Landis’ Animal House, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, Amy Heckerling’s Clueless and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.
The rollout got underway on January 20, with the release of Willie Hutch’s classic, much-sampled soundtrack to the 1973 movie The Mack, starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor, which was originally released on Motown, as well as the Spike Lee joint Do the Right Thing, which featured the Public Enemy classic, “Fight the Power.”
On February 3, UMe reissued John Williams’ famed scores to Steven Spielberg’s E.T. and Jaws, along with Oscar® winners like Nino Rota’s The Godfather and Good Will Hunting — which was nominated for Academy Awards® for Danny Elfman’s original music score and for Best Original Song, “Miss Misery,” by the late Elliott Smith. Also on that same date: a rare import picture disc of Quentin Tarantino’s acclaimed Pulp Fiction. On tap for February 10: Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man; two versions of Nellee Hooper’s BAFTA-award-winning score for Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, one in black vinyl and the other blue; and Willie Hutch’s The Mack.
March 10 sees the vinyl releases of the soundtracks to Jonathan Demme’s Oscar®-winning 1991 thriller Silence of the Lambs, composed by Howard Shore, plus Frank Oz’s 1987 film adaptation of the musical Little Shop of Horrors, featuring music by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, earning a Best Original Song nomination for Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs as Audrey II’s bawdy “Mean Green Mother From Outer Space.” Also on tap for that date is an import picture disc of the Coen brothers’ 2002 GRAMMY®-winning Album of the Year, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a multi-platinum hit that also included the Best Male Country Vocal Performance for Ralph Stanley’s “O, Death.” J.J. Johnson’s score to the 1974 blaxploitation film about a New York City pimp who strives to be the tops in the city, Willie Dynamite, comes out on vinyl March 24, while the following week, March 31 sees the release of the double-disc soundtrack to the movie version of Friday Night Lights.
April 14 sees the release of vinyl for Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson’s classic film about the Golden Age of the adult film industry in the ‘80s in the San Fernando Valley, along with the soundtracks to a pair of party-down cult faves: Car Wash and Animal House.
The soundtracks to Juice and Spike Lee’s retro-R&B School Daze make their vinyl appearances on May 5, followed by Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (highlights include Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O” and Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin”) and Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky, featuring composer Bill Conti’s Oscar®-nominated Best Original Song “Gonna Fly Now,” on May 12.
Tim Burton reflects sincerity through Big Eyes
By Jenny Alvarez
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Big Eyes is based on the true story of Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) and Margaret (Amy Adams).A film that was directed and produced by Tim Burton and the main subject is intellectual property theft, and the subjugation of women. However, the sincerity of the artist is fascinating and Alexander and Karaszewski’s Big Eyes script has a tendency to be heavy-handed at times (especially in its use of voiceover narration). Despite of the development of the story that begins in the late ‘50s, California; this reflects many social issues such as abusive marriage, repression, lies and ambition for money. Obviously this films makes it more interesting through a series of sequences that shows how Amy Adams’ Margaret life and work, before and after her marriage with Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz). She keeps quiet while her husband takes all her glory, keeping that secret for over a decade; secret about her career, talent and great sensibility for art.
Burton’s films always have fantasy but this one particularly surprises with respect and passion for a woman that reflects great talent in her art work and quality that intrigue viewers. Margaret can’t explain her paintings beyond saying that they express a part of her being in the deepest way. Definitely is a great movie season in which emotions, the absurdity and comedy are elements that makes it entertaining for 106 mins.
Tim Burton Creates Art with “Dark Shadows”
