Music For Films
''Music for Films'' is the seventh solo studio album by Brian Eno, released in September 1978 on E.G. Records, EG Records. His third release of Experimental music, experimental Electronic music, electronic material (the others being that year's ''Ambient 1: Music for Airports'' and 1975's ''Discreet Music''), it is a conceptual work intended as a soundtrack for imaginary Film, films, although many of the pieces had already appeared in actual films. It charted at #55 in the UK. Content The album is a loose compilation of material from the period 1975 to 1978, composed of short tracks ranging from one-and-a-half minutes to just over four, making it the antithesis of the long, sprawling, ambient pieces he later became known for. The compositional styles and equipment used also carried over onto Eno's work on some of David Bowie's 1977 album ''Low (David Bowie album), Low''. Unlike Eno's later ambient works, ''Music for Films'' utilises a broader sonic palette, with Eno's synthe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (, born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, and activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock music, rock and pop music. A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music. Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at the art school of Ipswich Civic College in the mid-1960s, and then at Winchester School of Art. He joined the glam rock group Roxy Music as its synthesiser player in 1971 and recorded two albums with them before departing in 1973. He then released solo albums, beginning with ''He ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft have had a great impact on popular music. Bowie studied art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. He released a string of unsuccessful singles with local bands and David Bowie (1967 album), a self-titled solo album (1967) before achieving his first top-five entry on the UK singles chart with "Space Oddity" (1969). After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the alter ego Ziggy Stardust (character), Ziggy Stardust. The success of the single "Starman (song), Starman" and its album ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Star ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Music For Films Volume 2
''Music for Films Volume 2'' is a compilation album by Brian Eno Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (, born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, and activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambien .... On the back cover Eno states, "I released the first volume of ''Music for Films'' in 1978, and it contained samples of my work, spanning the period of 1975–78. This second volume picks up where the first left off, but is somewhat different in that it contains fewer pieces with greater average length." The majority of tracks on this album also appear on '' Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks''. The remaining tracks that were unique to this release were later reissued on the 2005 compilation '' More Music for Films''. Track listing Side A #"The Dove" – 1:30 #"Roman Twilight" – 3:45 #"Matta" – 2:25 #"Dawn, Marshland" – 3:00 #"Climate Study" – 3: ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Woo
John Woo Yu-sen ( zh, t= ; born 22 September 1946) is a Hongkongers, Hong Kong film director known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. The recipient of various accolades, including a Hong Kong Film Awards, Hong Kong Film Award for Hong Kong Film Awards, Best Picture, Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director, Best Director, and Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film Editing, Best Editing, as well as a Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Golden Horse Award, an Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Asia Pacific Screen Award and a Saturn Awards, Saturn Award, he is regarded as a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films and the gun fu genre in Hong Kong action cinema. He is known for his highly chaotic "bullet ballet" action sequences, stylized imagery, Mexican standoffs, frequent use of slow motion and allusions to ''wuxia'', film noir and Western (genre), Western cinema. Considered one of the major figures of Cinema of Hong Kong, Hong Kong cinema, Woo has directed several notable Ho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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A Better Tomorrow
''A Better Tomorrow'' () is a 1986 Hong Kong action film directed, co-written and co-produced by John Woo, co-produced by Tsui Hark, and starring Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat. The film had a profound influence on Hong Kong action cinema, and has been recognised as a landmark film credited with setting the template for the heroic bloodshed genre, with considerable influence on both the Cinema of Hong Kong, Hong Kong film industry and Cinema of the United States, Hollywood. Produced with a tight budget and released with virtually no advertising, ''A Better Tomorrow'' broke Hong Kong's box office record and went on to become a blockbuster in Asia. It is regarded as one of the greatest Chinese-language films ever made, ranking #2 on the Hong Kong Film Awards#Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures list in 2005. Its success led to a sequel, ''A Better Tomorrow II'', also directed by Woo, and ''A Better Tomorrow 3, A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & De ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Colin Gregg
Colin Gregg (born 10 January 1947) is a British film and television director, editor and photographer. His work includes the films ''To the Lighthouse'' (1983), '' Lamb'' (1985), and '' We Think the World of You'' (1988). He has also directed episodes of television series including ''Kavanagh QC'' and ''Inspector Morse'', both starring John Thaw, and the BBC's ''Screen Two''. In addition, Gregg has directed adverts, including the award winning commercial for the British drink Blackcurrant Tango. Career Gregg's first film was the 1969 documentary ''Once upon a Time ... ''. In 1977, he was the photographer for a series entitled ''Those We Love to Hate'' produced by Devon County Educational Television Service for Paignton Zoo's Education Office, including ''Those We Love to Hate: Bats''. In 1982, Gregg's film ''Remembrance'' gave Gary Oldman his film debut. The following year, Gregg directed the BBC's 1983 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's ''To the Lighthouse'', with a cast which in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Remembrance (1982 Film)
Remembrance is a British ensemble drama about Royal Navy ratings of HMS ''Raleigh'', who are about to embark on a six-month naval exercise. The film is noteworthy for early appearances of several well-known British actors, including Timothy Spall, Lisa Maxwell, John Altman and Gary Oldman in his film debut. It was an early production from Channel Four Films and was shown on 10 November 1982 on Channel 4. It was also one of the first films in the UK to be shown on television less than three years after its initial cinema release (a delay enforced at the time by the Cinema Exhibitors' Association). Plot The film does not have a simple plot, but rather cuts between the interweaving stories of several characters, as they prepare for the coming months away at sea. The action centres around the bars and clubs of the Union Street district of Plymouth. One major event that affects all the characters is the hospitalisation and eventual death of Daniel (Gary Oldman) after a violent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Finnell
Michael Finnell is a film producer active from the 1970s in film, 1970s to the present. He has produced several horror film, horror-comedy films, particularly with the director Joe Dante. Finnell worked for the American producer Roger Corman before emerging as a producer in his own right. His first films were ''Avalanche (1978 film), Avalanche'' (1978) and ''Rock 'n' Roll High School'' (1979), with Corman. One of the first without Corman was the movie ''Airplane!'', in which he was listed in the end credits as "generally in charge of a lot of things". Working with Dante, Finnell then produced the modest hit ''The Howling (film), The Howling'' in 1981 and the Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbuster ''Gremlins'' in 1984. Dante and the special effects designer Chris Walas have said that Finnell's producing style was influenced by Corman, in that Finnell was very concerned about budgeting and wanted to make sure even cheap purchases contributed to the final film. The anecdote Walas t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rock And Roll High School
''Rock 'n' Roll High School'' is a 1979 American musical comedy film directed by Allan Arkush, produced by Michael Finnell, and starring P. J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, Clint Howard and Dey Young. The film features the punk rock group Ramones. Plot Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard for education. The leader of the students, Riff Randell, is the biggest Ramones fan at the school and also the worst behavioral problem, in that her disciplinary record fills an entire filing cabinet. She waits in line for three days to get tickets to see the band, hoping to meet Joey Ramone so she can give him a song she wrote for the band, "Rock 'n' Roll High School". When the tyrannical Principal Togar takes her ticket away, Riff and her best friend Kate Rambeau have to find another way to meet their heroes: winning a radio contest. Riff succeeds in delivering her song to Joey Ramone, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jubilee (1977 Film)
''Jubilee'' is a 1978 British drama film directed by Derek Jarman. It stars Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson, Nell Campbell, Hermine Demoriane and a host of punk rockers. The title refers to the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 1977. Numerous punk icons appear in the film including Adam Ant, Toyah, Jordan (a Malcolm McLaren protégé), Gene October and Jayne County. It features performances by Jayne County and Adam and the Ants. There are also cameo appearances by the Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The film was scored by Brian Eno. Plot Queen Elizabeth I is transported forward in time to the film's present day by the occultist John Dee, who commands the spirit guide Ariel (a character from William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' to bring them there. Elizabeth arrives in the shattered Britain of the 1970s and moves through the social and physical decay of the city, observing the sporadic activities of a group of aimless nihilists – mostly young women, including Amyl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alternative 3
''Alternative 3'' is a 1977 British television mockumentary concerning government conspiracies. It inspired much speculation and interest by proponents of fringe ideas. Premise Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary " brain drain", ''Alternative 3'' describes a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and environmental catastrophe on Earth. Production The script was written by David Ambrose. Music was supplied by Brian Eno, a portion of his score being released on his album ''Music for Films'' (1978). Apart from the presenter Tim Brinton, all characters were played by actors who were explicitly credited at the end. It was made with film stock used at the time to make it appear like a conventional documentary programme. In a 1989 interview, actor Richard Marner (who plays Dr. Carl Gerstein) said he did not rehearse his lines to make the delivery appear as natural as possible. Broadcast The programme was presented as an edi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Derek Jarman
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, and gay rights activist. Biography Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing Home in Northwood, London, Northwood, Middlesex, England, the son of Elizabeth Evelyn (''née'' Puttock) and Lancelot Elworthy Jarman. His father was a Royal Air Force officer, born in New Zealand. After a prep school education at Walhampton School, Hordle House School, Jarman went on to board at Canford School in Dorset and from 1960 studied English and art at King's College London. This was followed by four years at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL), starting in 1963. From 1966-1969 he rented a two-room flat on the top floor of 60 Liverpool Road, London, sharing rooms during the last year with fellow artist Keith Milow. In August 1969, he moved to Upper Ground, opposite Blackfriars Bridge, the first of a ser ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |