Vintage Music
Added 1/25/2010
Picked this movie up years ago, and it has became a favorite for me. I have shared this wonderful movie with many people and they all have love it also. I would recommend to all ages. A lovely family movie. The music is awesome, classic appalachia songs, that where brought from other countries.
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The hills have ears
Added 1/25/2010
Loosely based on the real life story of Olive Campbell, 'Songcatcher' is the story of Lily Panleric, a priggish but well-meaning American academic who adores the folk music of the British Isles, training her students to appreciate the emotional purity that folk music possesses. When she is denied a coveted music professorship, she packs it in and decides to visit her sister who runs a ragged school in the Appalachian mountains. She then discovers the locals know a huge store of English folk ballads like 'Barbry Allen', and in versions even purer than survive in England. This leads to some interesting debate with the locals on whether the music should be shared with outsiders, or whether that would compromise its purity. Eventually she convinces them, and sets out to capture the music on wax phonograph cylinders (this being pre-vinyl 1907).
From an artistic perspective 'Songcatcher' isn't a very good film (mediocre acting and Hollywood-style melodrama) but that isn't the reason you should watch it. The reason to watch it is the subject matter, the beauty of the songs, and the store of ancestral memories they contain.
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AWESOME MOVIE. FANTASTIC look into the old timey ways of mountain folks. The
dvd extras are great too, with singing and different stuff. Just great.
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songcatcher
Added 11/13/2009
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie,the 'hill songs' were captivating both the words, and meaning behind them and how beautiful they sounded.The struggle of the miners to live and keep their land and still feed their children was moving.I highly recommend this to anyone my husband watched it with me and even he liked it.
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Wonderful music and we will buy the soundtrack. But the movie could have been good if it weren't for the lesbianism (most of us do NOT want to see it portrayed on screen in such a flamboyant way), feminism, and dull ending. It's too bad they messed up what could have been a well made film.
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Vintage Music
Added 1/25/2010
Picked this movie up years ago, and it has became a favorite for me. I have shared this wonderful movie with many people and they all have love it also. I would recommend to all ages. A lovely family movie. The music is awesome, classic appalachia songs, that where brought from other countries.
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The hills have ears
Added 1/25/2010
Loosely based on the real life story of Olive Campbell, 'Songcatcher' is the story of Lily Panleric, a priggish but well-meaning American academic who adores the folk music of the British Isles, training her students to appreciate the emotional purity that folk music possesses. When she is denied a coveted music professorship, she packs it in and decides to visit her sister who runs a ragged school in the Appalachian mountains. She then discovers the locals know a huge store of English folk ballads like 'Barbry Allen', and in versions even purer than survive in England. This leads to some interesting debate with the locals on whether the music should be shared with outsiders, or whether that would compromise its purity. Eventually she convinces them, and sets out to capture the music on wax phonograph cylinders (this being pre-vinyl 1907).
From an artistic perspective 'Songcatcher' isn't a very good film (mediocre acting and Hollywood-style melodrama) but that isn't the reason you should watch it. The reason to watch it is the subject matter, the beauty of the songs, and the store of ancestral memories they contain.
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AWESOME MOVIE. FANTASTIC look into the old timey ways of mountain folks. The
dvd extras are great too, with singing and different stuff. Just great.
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