RFI: Classical Music in Scorsese's "After Hours"

Didn't know that was Bad Brains in the club scene.

Ebert is a dirty old man. I

Speaking of Scorsese soundtracks, even if I don't get around to seeing Shutter Island, I'm going to pick up the Robbie Robertson-curated soundtrack:

CD 1
1. Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes
2. Krysztof Penderecki - Symphony No. 3 - IV. Passacaglia - Allegro moderato
3. John Cage - Music for Marcel Duchamp
4. Nam June Paik - Hommage a John Cage
5. György Ligeti - Lontano
6. Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 2
7. Johnnie Ray - Cry
8. Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
9. Giacinto Scelsi - Uaxuctum - III. (untitled)
10. Gustav Mahler - Quartet in A minor for piano and strings

CD 2
1. John Adams - Christian Zeal and Activity
2. Lou Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings - IX. Nocturne
3. Brian Eno - Lizard Point
4. Alfred Schnittke - Four Hymns - II. For Cello and Double Bass
5. John Cage - Root of an Unfocus
6. Ingram Marshal - Alctraz - I. Prelude: The Bay
7. Kay Starr - Wheel of Fortune
8. Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night
9. Max Richter/Dinah Washington - On the Nature of Daylight/This Bitter Earth

love this fucking movie so much

i know this is kind of challopsy, but sometimes i think this + king of comedy are scorsese's best films. he was really firing on all cylinders.

Glenn Kenny: http://decider.com/2015/10/14/after-hours-turns-30-soho-then-and-now/?_ga=1.192694638.590912087.1354119766

I watched this movie too many times and when I see it now it just feels like a nostalgia trip :(

nice piece, great movie

Funny, I used to go to Sway Lounge on Spring St. a lot circa 2000 - I didn't realize then that the Emerald Pub across the street from it was the "Terminal Bar," or that Miss Beehive '67 Teri Garr's apartment was right next door to Sway!

I still find it odd that Scorsese's only ever made two straight up comedies, given that they're both all-time classics

three

What am I missing? Are you counting Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore?

the wolf of wall street i assume?

scorsese is usually pretty good at comedy. goodfellas is almost one, the departed has moments funnier than most actual comedies etc

OK yeah, I totally avoided that one

nomar otm

"I'm the guy who does his fuckin job" cracks me up every time

fuckin

Ellerby: Our target: microprocessors. Yes, those. I don't know what they are, you don't know what they are, who gives a fuck?

I was referring to WOWS but yeah I think a credible argument could be made that the Departed is a comedy, albeit a gruesome one. Watching it I certainly don't feel any kind of concern or sympathy for any of the characters or the overall plotline, feels like almost everything - the violence, the combative dialogue, the betrayals - are played for laughs.

Not the rigth thread but this is a nice podcast on King of Comedy: http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-comment-podcast-martin-scorsese/