When most people think of silent film music, an image of an old lady pounding away at a dusty organ, making some interminable, repetitive racket is immediately conjured up.
Courtesy of Dark Horizons "Eight Below" would seem to have a lot of strikes against it.
When critics bandy about the precious hyphenate 'singer-songwriter,' they often use words such as 'confessional' and 'sensitive' to evoke the tone of the style, a populist amalgam of rock, country and folk idioms that emerged in the late '60s and early '70s to describe the music of artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake and Townes Van Zandt.
Few musical idioms have proven as commercially unsuccessful, or as cultishly followed, as power pop.
When a book is written years from now on the progressive Los Angeles/Echo Park singer-songwriter scene, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that Mark Oliver Everett -- who calls himself "E" and is now the sole member of one of the last mid-'90s alt-rock bands the Eels -- will get one of the shortest chapters.
On Friday afternoon and evening, director Robert Bilheimer will be showing his latest motion picture, "A Closer Walk," at the Loew Auditorium.
"Mostly Martha" is a semisweet film overcooked to a bitter aftertaste. The movie is the story of Martha Klein (Martina Gedeck), a neurotic and willful master chef left to care for her troubled niece after a car accident.