VHS Or Beta?

Daft Punk Turn Down The Volume

andybetablog | October 10, 2008 12:00 pm
andybetablog | October 10, 2008 12:00 pm

Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the recent film by the Frenchmen Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, Daft Punk’s Electroma:

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Robert Altman Turns On His Radio

andybeta | August 29, 2008 12:30 pm
andybeta | August 29, 2008 12:30 pm

AP060305010690.jpgEd. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the sounds of two mid-’70s movies by famed director Robert Altman, California Split and Thieves Like Us:

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“Wall-E” Pushes The Right Buttons

andybeta | August 1, 2008 10:00 am
andybeta | August 1, 2008 10:00 am

wall-e-poster1.jpgEd. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the music that serves as the backdrop to Wall-E‘s scorched earth:

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The Sun City Girls’ Alan Bishop Goes To The Movies

andybeta | May 23, 2008 10:00 am
andybeta | May 23, 2008 10:00 am

dc360.jpgEd. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he talks to fellow film-music obsessive Alan Bishop about Ennio Morricone, underheralded score composers, and the work his group the Sun City Girls did on Harmony Korine’s latest movie, Mister Lonely:

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Wong Kar Wai Ladles Out A Few Blueberry-Stuffed Lullabyes

andybeta | April 25, 2008 12:00 pm
andybeta | April 25, 2008 12:00 pm

5087.jpgEd. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he travels along America’s byways with Wong Kar Wai and his first English-language feature, My Blueberry Nights:

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Jackie Chan And A Cat That Has Super-Flanged Claws

andybeta | March 28, 2008 11:30 am
andybeta | March 28, 2008 11:30 am

snake.bmpEd. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he stumbles across the Jackie Chan movie Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow on a late-night channel surf in China:

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The New York City Rhythms Of “Taxi Driver”

andybeta | January 18, 2008 9:30 am
andybeta | January 18, 2008 9:30 am


Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the music from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic Taxi Driver:

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Jonny Greenwood Finds Black Gold At The End Of His Rainbow

andybeta | December 28, 2007 1:00 am
andybeta | December 28, 2007 1:00 am


Ed. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the Jonny Greenwood-composed music that scores Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood:

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The Oscillations And Pulses Behind “The Andromeda Strain”

andybeta | December 14, 2007 1:30 am
andybeta | December 14, 2007 1:30 am

andromeda.jpgEd. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he listens to the long-out-of-print–yet oddly of the moment–score for the 1971 bioterror thriller The Andromeda Strain.

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The Hidden Music Of Cassavetes’ “Faces”

andybeta | November 30, 2007 12:10 pm
andybeta | November 30, 2007 12:10 pm

faces_poster.jpgEd. note: It’s time for another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he listens to the music behind John Cassavetes’ 1968 “expression of horror at our society in general” Faces.

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