Trick Film

Producer, all-purpose studio musician, arranger, songwriter, and film composer Jon Brion has been a high-profile behind-the-scenes fixture on the Los Angeles music scene since the mid-'90s. After playing in bands in home state of Connecticut, then Boston in the late '80s (including touring with Aimee Mann's group 'Til Tuesday), he became an in-demand session musician and producer on the West Coast.

The original motion picture soundtrack of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was composed by Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna who had previously worked on Gilliam's Tideland (2005). Gilliam wrote lyrics for the two songs "We Love Violence" and "We Are The Children of the World", the latter of which spoofed Michael Jackson's famous "We Are the World" and was nominated for a 2009 Satellite Award in the category "Best Original Song".

Victorian Sensations transports us to the last years of Queen Victoria's reign to explore a moment of thrilling discovery and change that continues to resonate today.

The full details of the official soundtrack album for Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Randy Newman (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug’s Life, Avalon, Parenthood, Awakenings, The Princess and the Frog) who previously scored the director’s last feature The Meyerowitz Stories. Marriage Story is written and directed by Baumbach and stars Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Merritt Wever, Azhy Robertson, Alan Alda and Kyle Bornheimer. The comedy drama premiered at several film festivals over the last two months and will be released in select theaters on November 6 before premiering on Netflix on December 6.

The history of screen comedy did not begin with Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. Prior to their appearances on the American screen, an entire generation of comedians was already establishing (and breaking) the boundaries of this rapidly evolving genre. While working at the Vitagraph Studios, music hall artists such as John Bunny, Frank Roberts, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew retooled their brands of comedy into something uniquely cinematic, advancing the art form and setting the stage for the slapstick explosion. This three-disc collection, presented by the Library of Congress, showcases the bold innovation of these overlooked pioneers, including the ingenious trick film The Disintegrated Convict, the gender-bending irrereverence of Edith Storey, and the epic scale of Larry Semon’s The Sawmill. Vitagraph Comedies also provides precious glimpses of comedians (e.g. Flora Finch or the comedy duo Montgomery and Rock) who are virtually forgotten today, because so little of their work has survived.