French Lovers Fret, Sing In Not-So-Silly ‘love Songs’
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Who else would take a story about three young, beautiful, contemporary Parisians having a threesome and turn it into a strange musical with dreary songs about tragic romance, doomed love and gray skies?
The Tallahassee Film Society is showing director Christophe Honore’s chancy, brooding “Love Songs” this weekend at All Saints Cinema. It’s sure to divide [...]
Love: Can’t We Talk About Something Else
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Paul McCartney was right: People do want to fill the world with silly love songs.
But who was the first troubadour — a 12th and 13th century love poet or a songwriter that decided hey, maybe if I sing about love I’ll get the girl?
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of love songs out there [...]
Bartholomew Owl On The Songs Of For The Thoughts You Never Had
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Sleeptide “This was written on the train from Edinburgh to London. Malcolm and Clarissa worked out the harmonies on the train–a cappella vocals for the first verse, then just vocals and ukulele for the second. We wanted something quite short and bare for the opening track.
We wanted people to either get on board, or immediately [...]
Love Is All At The Bowery Ballroom
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Easy to see now how Love is All’s “Make Out Fall Out Make Up” is heroin to indie rock kids, all reigned-in abandon and bespoke signifiers (the “records” in the song’s first couplet: “Records and clothes on the floor/Remind me of the night before”; cigarettes, red wine, smudged lipstick).
As it happens, lots of tropes [...]
Humpback Escorts Woo Mothers With A Love Song
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Researchers studying migrating humpbacks off the east coast of Australia say they have recorded the strongest evidence to date that males sing to woo females, not to deter other males. And they think lone males may use the love songs as an easy way of finding a female.
There have been two theories to explain the [...]
Christophe Honor On Liberty And Love Songs
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In this week’s Guardian I write about Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs. Honoré recently answered some questions about the film via email. Dive below for thoughts on cross-dressing and Jacques Demy, and also a contemporary booklist for young gay men who read.
SFBG: Gal Morel has a brief Hitchcock-like cameo early on in Love Songs. Was this [...]
“Love Songs” Director Christophe Honore
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Whatever it is that Americans glamorize about Paris, the films of Christophe Honore possess in spades. Stylish, irreverent, gorgeously rendered and unabashedly romantic, his features are both modern and classically Gallic and “Love Songs,” a musical that IFC Films opens in the U.S. this Friday theatrically (and also on demand), may be his best yet. [...]
Adam Waxman doesn’t write a lot of love songs but his music is a labor of love
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axman’s voice is a gentle giant, matching his towering frame and sweet demeanor. With or without the band, he commands the stage like he’s been singing the blues since the day he was born.
Despite encouragement from a musician father growing up, Adam didn’t warm up to musicianship early on. He was 23 when he decided [...]
Bodyguard Battles Bullies; Faithfull Sex Worker: Rick Warner
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March 21 (Bloomberg) — Did Judd Apatow break his funny bone? Has Seth Rogen lost his comic mojo?
If “Drillbit Taylor” is any indication, the answer is yes. Starring Owen Wilson as a homeless beach bum hired to protect three teenage nerds from a couple of school bullies, this mirthless concoction strives for laughs and pathos [...]
“Love Songs” Director Christophe Honore
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Whatever it is that Americans glamorize about Paris, the films of Christophe Honore possess in spades. Stylish, irreverent, gorgeously rendered and unabashedly romantic, his features are both modern and classically Gallic and “Love Songs,” a musical that IFC Films opens in the U.S. this Friday theatrically (and also on demand), may be his best yet. [...]
