On today's episode, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent Arts Editor Brian Slattery talk about A QUIET PLACE, John Krasinski's new horror movie about a family in upstate New York that has crafted a wordless survivalist way of life amidst an alien invasion of creatures that are hyper-attuned to noise.
Brian Slattery on the banjo.
On today’s very special episode of the show, host Tom Breen talks with writer-editor-musician Brian Slattery about the music documentaries of Les Blank, a pioneering independent filmmaker who made over 40 movies between 1960 and 2015, many of which focused on the diverse traditional musical subcultures of the American South. Over the course of the show, Brian plays songs on the guitar, fiddle, and banjo that are inspired by or some way related to the music in Les Blank's movies.
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Miles Ahead
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Guests: Allan Appel, Brian Slattery
0:00 - 40:50 - Miles Ahead and Born to Be Blue reviews
40:50 - 50:50 - favorite music documentaries and biopics
On today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with New Haven Independent staff writer Allan Appel and arts editor Brian Slattery about two new movies about legendary jazz trumpeters: Don Cheadle's MILES AHEAD, about Miles Davis, and Robert Burdreau's BORN TO BE BLUE, about Chet Baker. Tom, Allan and Brian talk through the representation of drug addiction in movies about musicians, the differences between music documentaries and music biopics, and the underlying assumption that there is some meaningful connection between the artist's biography and the art itself.
Trailer for Miles Ahead
Trailer for Born to Be Blue
Guests: Brian Slattery, Shafiq Abdussabur, Leo Slattery
0:00 - 50:23 - review of the latest STAR WARS entry with Brian Slattery, Shafiq Abdussabur, and Leo Slattery
WNHH host Tom Breen speaks to fellow hosts Brian Slattery and Shafiq Abdussabur, as well as Slattery's nine-year-old son Leo, about what the newest Star Wars movie means for the franchise, and for viewers.
Trailer for STAR WARS EPISODE VII