Movies About Music - Ep9 Tick Tick Boom & Veronique
Channel: Mean Pomeranians
Date: 2022-01-25

Episode Description: We discuss two very different movies in our ninth episode. The main film under discussion is Tick… Tick… BOOM by Lin-Manuel Miranda, a Netflix biopic about Jonathan Larson of Rent fame. Jim is critical of the music and filmmaking style; CeCe expresses her dislike of the film, while sharing a love/hate relationship with the Rent-heads out there. We discuss the general topic of musicals, the time and place in which Larson was working, how the AIDS epidemic was tragically affecting artists at the time, and the deux ex machina genius composer cliché. We lead off with a brief discussion of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique, currently on MUBI. It’s a movie Jim thought was about music, but we realized while watching that it’s not. Still, it allows us to have a lively discussion about the male gaze, feminist cinema, singing and dubbing, the composer Zbigniew Preisner, and the metaphysics of spirit in philosophical filmmaking.

Show Notes: CeCe Kim and James Batcho discuss movies that have music as the main narrative element. CeCe is a professional singer, songwriter and voice actor. James is a professor, drummer, recording engineer and film theorist. Taking a particular film as a launching point, they talk openly about how the lives of musicians are portrayed in cinema, and the cultural and social aspects at play in popular movies about music.

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Podcast produced and engineered by James Batcho.
Music composed by CeCe Kim; performed by CeCe, James and Gino Brann; and produced by James.