“In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short.”

Listen: John Lennon – Working Class Hero

Last evening,  Slumdog Millionaire won eight out of ten nominated Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song. Known for his captivating work in films Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle captures the same type of movements, sounds and intensity in Slumdog Millionaire. Colorful in all it’s glory, each scene quickly flows along to the stunning soundtrack, beautiful landscapes of India and true emotions within the story.

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Jai Ho by A.R. Rahman
Paper Planes [DFA Remix] by M.I.A.
[Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack, 2008]

with over 20 million books sold of the twilight series, author stephenie meyer has created a love story between a human and a vampire, that has attracted not only a cult of young adults but their parents as well.  although most may be new to the fascinating sensation, its hard to resist where all the pandemonium is coming from. similar in ways to the harry potter literary craze, twilight has now become a movie with confirmed sequels starring kristen stewart and teen heart-breaker robert pattinson, that will be released nationwide at sold out movie theaters starting tomorrow.

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full moon by the black ghosts
flightless bird, american mouth by iron and wine
[twilight soundtrack, 2008]

when you can live forever
what do you live for?

2007′s loved film juno by breakthrough award winning writer diablo cody, showcased the challenges of humanity, the struggles of making the right teenage and adult difficult decisions regarding school, parents, love, sex and every single little indiscretion in between. covered in complexity, rising from the chaotic emotions of an unplanned pregnancy caters to the whole reaction of the story blending in the surprise of adoption and the realization of how hard it can sometimes be to let go. colored in various shades of insecurity, juno shares a pure sincerity of how hard these obstacles in life can overcome and with making the toughest choices, can sometimes come the most rewarding gifts.

like all good movies should, the juno soundtrack features mainly the underground folk sounds of kimya dawson, a favorite musician recommended by juno, young actress ellen page herself and several other highlighted classic tracks including those from the moldy peaches, sonic youth, belle & sebastian, the kinks, buddy holly, the velvet underground, mott the hoople, mateo messina, barry louis polisar, antsy pants, and cat power on the juno movie soundtrack. every song compliments the music from juno within the film’s narrative, blending the storyline and comfortably segues inside all the emotions and reasonings of heartbreak, loss, tears, smiles and happiness.

listen to cat power :: sea of love
[juno soundtrack, 2007]