Film Works 1995-2005 (+DVD) - Craig Armstrong

Plunkett and Macleane soundtrack - Craig Armstrong

Advantages: Different, exciting and composed by a renound Electronica artist
Disadvantages: not a lyrical album with 'songs'

This is an incredible soundtrack written for the 18th Century action/drama film Plunkett and Macleane starring Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Liv Tyler. It is composed by Craig Armstrong, also composer to some of the famous heavy instrumental tracks used in Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet in1996 such as the track 'O Verona'. This whole sound track is in a very similar style to that of Romeo and Juliet in the sense that it uses so many different genres of music within one film. As the film is set in the 18th Century it seems a bit of an odd choice to ask Craig Armstrong to create the film score as he is known as an Electronica artist. Overall surprisingly it works though. This CD has some amazing tracks ranging in styles from Carl Orff's symphonic, apocalyptic methods, to Opera, to modern day dance tracks and calm/subdued background ...

catbradbury 19.04.2005 · Read full review
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Working Girl - but not on the streets!

Advantages: Brilliant
Disadvantages: Lack of DVD extras, but the film itself is excellent

Harrison Ford seems to have a knack of getting the good roles. In Working Girl, he works with Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver to give us director Mike Nichols' 1988 film telling a story about office work in the 1980s. Essentially, the film doesn't have a special plot. It tells of Tess McGill (Griffith), a clever secretary who lands a job working for Katharine Parker at Trask Industries. When Katharine breaks her leg and Tess finds out she was going to steal one of her ideas, she decides to get her own back by pretending to be her own boss. The sparks fly as professional backstabbing ensues left, right and centre. Cue Hollywood cheese.............. Ford kind of takes a back seat in this film and lets Griffith and Weaver dominate the proceedings, and this is the right move. The script nails it with the spoft spoken Tess ...

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Louis Armstrong

Advantages: The one and only
Disadvantages: none

I love reggae music, especially Bob Marley, but if I am honest I also like a bit of Jazz, not any old Jazz though, when I say Jazz I mean Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong a Jazz musician that will not be forgotten and an act that will never be followed, some Jazz musicians will try and follow in his footsteps but non will succeed, Louis was unique. Who else could have that rough, gravel like voice that could become so famous, that famous smile and the twinkle in his eyes? Louis Armstrong (satchmo) the name he was well known as. Louis was born into a poor family from New Orleans on August 4th 1901. Sent away to a reform school for two years that?s when and where he first learned to play the coronet. After leaving reform school Louis was hired locally as a general dogsbody, but the music was in his bones and he frequently ...

gill1960 11.01.2005 · Read full review
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