Listen to Soundtracks for Horror Films, a film score by yours truly – Eric’s Music

Listen to Soundtracks for Horror Films, a film score by yours truly – Eric’s Music

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I've been lax in giving the world the music I've been creating over the last year or two, especially since there has been some stuff I'm proud of that exists in silence, so here is a film score composed by yours truly: Soundtracks for Horror Films: Music Inspired by the Wash. Except there is no movie of The Wash. Therefore there can't be a soundtrack for it. Feel free to consider this collection of music anyway. The Wash is in part what was in my head as I composed it, after all. Just skip to the video and download link…
A Month of Kurosawa: Stray Dog (1949)

A Month of Kurosawa: Stray Dog (1949)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! Stray Dog (1949) "Masterpiece" is probably a word that gets thrown around a little too easily, especially when discussing movies, but it's hard not to use the word when discussing 1949's Stray Dog, a gritty crime noir by Akira…
A Month of Kurosawa: The Quiet Duel (1949)

A Month of Kurosawa: The Quiet Duel (1949)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! The Quiet Duel (1949) Toshiro Mifune as a doctor stricken with a sexually-transmitted disease? Sure, why not! Kurosawa's 1949 drama about a doctor dealing with a terrible secret doesn't get much attention. It might be easy to blame the…
A Month of Kurosawa: Drunken Angel (1948)

A Month of Kurosawa: Drunken Angel (1948)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! Drunken Angel (1948) Here's a recipe for movie magic: Put Toshiro Mifune on screen. Pair him with Takashi Shimura. And have Akira Kurosawa direct them. Still a no-name actor, this was Mifune's first of many roles for Kurosawa, and…
A Month of Kurosawa: No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)

A Month of Kurosawa: No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! No Regrets For Our Youth (1946) No Regrets For Our Youth was a post-war drama by Akira Kurosawa that mixes equal parts political protest, love triangle, and family drama. Kurosawa's pictures are virtually always political in some way --…