Category: Film Fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE99le5FBrY The princess that every man loved and every woman wanted to be, and for all the right reasons. Capping off a 2-hour "40 Years of Star Wars" panel at this year's Star Wars Celebration (which included Star Wars luminaries like Mark Hamill, George Lucas, Hayden Christensen, and other surprises), this 5-minute video is a fitting [...]

https://youtu.be/WnLsaCLdoMQ The new song from Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast remake brings back an old favorite: Celine Dion. Penned by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Tim Rice (filling in for the late Howard Ashman), "How Does A Moment Last Forever?" will - with Dion's voice - serve as a warm-comfort tie-in (and bookend) [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axySrE0Kg6k In about as faithful a cover as one could imagine, John Legend and Ariana Grande's update of the "Beauty and the Beast" ballad is nearly indistinguishable from Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson's original. But hey, it's in the Beast's ballroom so that's cool.

https://vimeo.com/7456450 This 2003 Florida State University short film - made in response to 9/11 - doesn't necessarily reveal director Barry Jenkins to be a future Academy Award winning filmmaker, but it does reveal a poetic one. Ultimately, Moonlight revealed both. But even My Josephine shows how a great artist interprets events; not literally but iconically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECV1oZ2QTfg It's the equivalent of a complete Broadway Original Cast Album. The La La Land soundtrack has been out for months, and the score soon followed. But now for the first time in one complete experience is the entire musical of the Academy Award winning movie - including bonus tracks like the 80s party band covering "Take [...]