Showing posts with label Miles Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miles Davis. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2020

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)


Miles Davis: Horn player, bandleader, innovator. This documentary feature explores archival photos and home movies shot by Miles and his colleagues, his manuscripts and Miles' original paintings, to explore the man behind the music.

Good, informative documentary gives a thorough overview of the artist's life and work, complete with some fascinating archival material; however, as so often with this kind of musical biography, the music is cut too short.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

The Movies I Watched in March

Apprentice to MurderApprentice to Murder (1988)  6
Au bout des doigts (2018)  5
Class 0f 1999 (1990)  5
Climax (2018)  6
Color Out of Space (2019)  7


Deadpool (2016)  6
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)  7


The Fall, Season 1 (2013)  7


Frantz (2016)  7


Gisaengchung (2019)  8

 
Gog (1954)  6
Hagazussa (2017)  7



Joker (2019)  8


Locusts (1974)  5
Lost Girls (2020)  7


Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)  6
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)  7


Moontrap (1989)  6
Pet Sematary (2029)  5
Session 9 (2001)  7


Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)  6
Star Trek: Picard (2020)  6
The 27th Day (1957)  6
Unbelievable (2019)  7


Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)  6

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Miles Ahead (2015)


In the midst of a prolific career, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s till a wily music reporter forces his way into Davis' house and, over the next couple of days, the two men unwittingly embark on an adventure to recover a stolen tape recording of the musician's most recent compositions.

Don Cheadle delivers a spectacularly convincing performance as Miles Davis, but his attempt to explore the man and and artist is marred by a hopscotch plot with multiple flashbacks which entertains but is vaguely insightful.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

New Stuff: Prince with Miles Davis


This cd contains the only actual Prince/Miles Davis collaboration, "Little Red Riding Hood" (also known as "Can I Play With U"). Most of the other tracks are outtakes and demos from Prince's late 80s period.

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)


A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

A brilliant homage to Film Noir, this classic also anticpates Nouvelle Vague aesthetics and atmosphere, but just as well functions as morality play (plus a great score by Miles Davis).

Halliwell*: "Complex, watchable suspenser with pretensions."

Maltin***1/2: "Filmed by Henri Decaë on the streets of Paris in a bracing style that anticipates the New Wave."


Friday, August 30, 2013

New Stuff: Miles Davis


Recommended by my pal Gerhard, these live perfromances are well worth the purchase.