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Sign Up For Coursera’s How Music Can Change Your Life Course 9. The Music of the Beatles (Single Course) If you’re interested in musical history, Coursera’s The Music of the Beatles class covers the rise and fall of the world’s most popular rock band. Taught by a professor from the University of Rochester, this class traces the Fab Four’s journey from Liverpool through the end of their recording career at Abbey Road. … [Read more...] about The World’s Best Music Schools Are Making Classes Available Online to Everyone

At the same time, the animation finds a way of embedding the music right into the colors and shapes of the film that's pure magic and pays homage to the rhythms and phrasing of jazz and hip hop artists, some of whom appear as voice actors or musicians in the film (including Questlove, Daveed Diggs and John Batiste). The last, best known for his appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, composed and arranged the jazz numbers that are layered in with the original score written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross; per the film's press notes, reference footage of Batiste playing was used to make sure every note Joe plays in the film was accurate. The hand animation — fluttering, graceful, lightning-fast — will be studied by students of the medium with awe in years to come. … [Read more...] about ‘Soul’: Film Review | London 2020

David Fincher turns Netflix homes into 1940s movie houses with his latest opus, Mank, which explores the life and frustrations of Citizen Kane’s screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, as he works his way through the draft of what will become Orson Welles’ seminal directorial debut. With its title role imbued with Mankiewicz’s world-weary wit by Gary Oldman, and from a script first drafted more than 20 years ago by Fincher’s father Jack, who passed away in 2003, the film reignites the debate about the authorship of a film Welles might nearly have taken sole credit for. But it is about more than that besides; a love and hate letter to the machinations of the movie business, a remarkably timely examination of the façade of truth in the news media, and an intimate study of tortured souls beaten down by the world around them and their own insecurities. Joe Utichi meets Fincher, Oldman and Amanda Seyfried—who rehabilitates the image of actress and socialite … [Read more...] about The Burning Question That Drove David Fincher’s Decades-Long Journey To Make ‘Mank’

Spector adopted what he famously referred to as “a Wagnerian approach to rock & roll,” calling the hit records he assembled in the Sixties for artists like the Ronettes, the Crystals, Darlene Love and the Righteous Brothers “little symphonies for the kids.” His productions were dense and orchestral, accumulating layer upon layer of guitars, horns, keyboards, strings and percussion, often with multiple instruments playing the same note in unison. The songs he selected were dizzyingly romantic, typically written by the greatest of the Brill Building songwriters, and his classic recordings relied on the brilliant contributions of a set of musicians dubbed the Wrecking Crew – drummer Hal Blaine’s four-beat intro to the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” is one of the most distinctive kick offs to a song in rock & roll history. … [Read more...] about Phil Spector, Famed ‘Wall of Sound’ Producer Convicted of Murder, Dead at 80

Written, directed and produced by Renji Philip, The Wake of Light follows Mary (Rome Brooks) who has spent her entire life caring for her widowed father after he suffered a stroke when she was a little girl. Things change for her when she meets Cole (Matt Bush), a young man passing through her small town on a cross-country road trip. He falls for her and asks her to join him on his journey. This brings Mary to a crossroads in her life: responsibility to her father or a chance at love. The Wake of Light opens in virtual cinemas and select theaters today. … [Read more...] about Timely ‘MLK/FBI’ And Stranger-Than-Fiction ‘Assassins’ Documentaries Debut – Specialty Preview