Just a few quick links.
1. Koyaanisqatsi is my official fourth-favorite film of all time. And while I don’t care for the sequels so much, I do love the soundtracks to all three films. So I rather like the New Yorker‘s current music column, which is divided roughly in half between a consideration of soundtrack composition in general, and a look at Philip Glass’s music for these Godfrey Reggio films.
2. Speaking of composers, FilmStew.com reports that there are currently two films in the works about Antonio Vivaldi, “the eccentric 18th century Baroque composer who started out as a Catholic priest.” One is being developed by Mechaniks, based on a script by Jeffrey Freedman, and the other is being developed by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment:
The Mechaniks script follows Vivaldi as a young priest assigned to serve as a music master of a school for the abandoned, illegitimate daughters of Venice’s courtesans. He is plagued by asthma and questions of faith to the Catholic church but wins the trust and affection of the girls, and his bond with them leads to a concert of his music before the pope.
Imagine and Columbia’s version is reported to follow Vivaldi’s forbidden romance with his muse, Anna, who inspired his most famous composition, “The Four Seasons.”
3. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the concert film Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic, featuring the controversial Jewish stand-up comic of that name, will come to theatres in November. I haven’t a clue what it’s about, but the title catches my eye.
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