Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Top Gun’
‘Top Gun’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Tony Scott’s 1986 movie.
‘Top Gun’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Tony Scott’s 1986 movie.
“Dennis Potter left us with one of the most ambitious and meaningful pieces of British television, bridging commercial and public broadcasting to address the state of the nation and the fate of the artist with his customary irreverence and accessibility.”
“If you’re looking for feminism, don’t look at James Cameron — look at his films.”
“‘Mona Lisa’ was ahead of its time, a precursor of urban fairy tales in late 90s British cinema.”
“Bellocchio’s 1986 film ‘Devil in the Flesh’ is perfectly representative of the great Italian director’s outlook.”
Mannhunting #2 by Bill Bria: “In Mann’s duality of man, cop and robber are, in Stevenson’s words, ‘radically both’ one and the same.”
Fedor Tot on Pedro Almodóvar’s Collaborations with Antonio Banderas
“If Ferris Bueller and his day off resemble something else universal, it is liberation. In the context of the journey, this is best understood as the ability to be in transit.”
“The persona, the artist, the maestro, the ringmaster — one can’t help but bask in the direct, subjective joy and the elegiac reverence for cinema itself.”
“This is L-I-V-I-N in the moment at its best.”
“Relying heavily on the sheer talent of its leading performers, and the loud boisterousness of the music that defined an era, Alex Cox’s ode to punk is pure Anarchy in the UK.”