Here's some behind-the-scenes footage of Boister rehearsing its score for D.W. Griffith's classic Intolerance. An expanded version of the band—including members of All Mighty Senators, Crack the...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Picasso's Guernica, Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series, Beethoven's Ninth, the [Michael Roemer] film Nothing But A Man, performances of...
The folks in JHU's Film & Media Studies Department have pulled off a major coup in bringing legendary filmmaker Charles Burnett to town. Burnett will introduce Nightjohn, a 1996 movie he...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Neil Jordan's film Interview With the Vampire. There is so much in that film that affected me. The story and characters are so deep. I...
In his new book, The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark (Chicago Review), Robert Elder asked dozens of movie directors about the film that changed their lives....
Dan Deacon, who's been tapped to score Francis Ford Coppola's next film, tells Pitchfork he was skeptical about visiting the legendary filmmaker's home in Napa Valley. "As the plane was landing from...
Dan Deacon will be scoring Francis Ford Coppola's next film, Twixt Now and Sunrise. It's quite a coup for the Wham City co-founder, who's on the cover of our current "Power" issue. I would have...
Indie rock icon Dean Wareham (ex-Galaxie 500/Luna) and his frequent collaborator Britta Phillips put out a wonderful CD last year—it made my Best of 2010 list—that richly underscores an often...
Boister has always been one of my favorite bands—and not just because I'm married to the singer. I love that the group's sound is virtually unclassifiable, an intriguing mix of jazz, rock, and...
Here are clips from a Globe Poster documentary featuring soul great Solomon Burke, who passed away last Sunday. I'm working on the Globe doc with Alex Castro and Rei Spinnicchio, and we filmed...
