

If I liked the artwork, if somebody told me about the band, if it was from a different country, I would always pick up whatever cassette was on the shelf. I could go into Tower Records with an expense account. Karyn Rachtman: Back in the day, I was a hoarder. Pitchfork: When you’re not actively working on a movie, do you look for songs to put on the back burner for future soundtracks? Rachtman, who now runs her own music supervision firm, Mind Your Music, and lives in New Zealand, called Pitchfork to talk about career hangups, convincing musicians to participate in scandalous scenes, and one unforgettable dream meeting. Over the last 30 years, Karyn Rachtman has brought her taste and business savvy to some of the most iconic soundtracks of all time: Clueless, Pulp Fiction, Reality Bites, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, and Boogie Nights, just to name a few. “I’m a Casting Director for Music”: A Conversation With Karyn Rachtman So to kick things off, let’s talk to one of cinema’s most accomplished music supervisors. These are the people who find songs and secure their usage in films, which means they likely played a huge role in shaping your music taste today. Among them, music supervisors are an essential and undersung part of process.

Though directors are often given sole credit for a movie’s soundtrack, many people help bring music to the big screen. (We're excluding musicals from both lists, as they feel like a different category entirely.) These are usually multi-artist compilation albums, and almost always include songs with vocals and lyrics. Stay tuned for the best original scores list later in the week. Today, we discuss soundtracks, which we’re defining as collections of songs that have been used in films. In looking at the greatest movie music of all time, Pitchfork is publishing two separate lists this week: best soundtracks and best original scores. When sound and vision meet, transcendence ensues. It’s impossible to do. Throughout film history, songs have added glory to struggle, majesty to landscapes, depth to heroes and villains alike. Or Super Fly without Curtis Mayfield’s haunted croon. Or Pulp Fiction without Dick Dale’s cataclysmic surf-rock guitar. This heartfelt drama illuminates many of the complex issues faced by Taiwan's Aboriginal communities.Īnd the movie also received a number of accolades.What would the movies be without music? Imagine Do the Right Thing without Radio Raheem’s blaring boombox. Three general comments from three media about the movie are as follow: In the process, she found it’s not only about the land, but also about who she really is. They were losing their land and their culture, so she decided to return home to bring back the abandon terrace.


One day, she found her tribe has been overdeveloped and changed by tourism. Panay worked in the city as a journalist. Panay's theme song "Aka pisawad" won the Best Original Film Song of the 52nd Golden Horse Awards. The movie was being awarded the Audience Choice Award from the Taipei Film Festival. Actors are mostly new to the stage, they are fresh yet persuasive. Through the cross ethnic cooperation between two directors, Cheng Yu-Chieh ( Han) and Lekal Sumi ( Pangcah). This is one of the few Taiwanese movies that filmed from an indigenous perspective. Panay is a very common female name among the Taiwanese Indigenous tribe, it simply stands for the beautiful spike of rice. Panay is a 2015 feature film directed by Taiwanese director Cheng Yu-Chieh and Lekal Sumi Cilangasan.
