The cinetrix tumbled to the wonderful world of library music -- instrumental tracks that play underneath scenes on TV and in films -- probably about a year and a half ago now. Being obsessive but not male, she contented herself with keeping an eye out for CDs from the Music for Dancefloors collection and the like, rather than go digging through crates herself. Still, it was with great interest that she read an article in this month's ReadyMade, which profiles library music collector and DJ David Hollander.
Here's why. Hollander spins at an event the existence of which warms the subcockles: the Hollywood Forever Cemetery movie night, "screening under and above the stars." O brave new world! What an absolutely Loved One-inspired idea.
Last night [when, granted, I played hooky and cavorted in Atlanta for a few hours of big-city-too-busy-to-hate fun], Cinespia, the evening's organizers, showed The Long Goodbye. Learning of the screening this afternoon gave me a pang because the cinetrix loves that movie almost as much as the Coen brothers do. [I wonder whether the Angelo crowd greeted the wordless turn by its Governator with cheers or hisses?]
The sleek Cinespia site is a soothing melange of tasteful and lurid photographic stills and loops of library music. The evil geniuses behind it exhibit the best sort of questionable good sense and include among their recommended films Ace in the Hole, Danger Diabolik, and 3 Women.
Even the links bear fruit. Cinemaphilic left coasters tired of staring at blank walls should check out film/art, currently featuring in its gallery the best-designed film posters of the 1960s, which are all for sale.
