Music for Films

In a three-part discussion, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy & Tim Concannon view all six 'Arthur' films. NSFW (swears, sex references).

In a three-part discussion, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy & Tim Concannon view all six 'Arthur' films. NSFW (swears, sex references).

In a three-part discussion, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) view all six 'Arthur' films. NSFW (swears, sex references).

A two-part journey through the psychedelic cinema of Joe Masott. In part two, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1971 metaphysical Western 'Zachariah' based on Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel 'Siddhartha'. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachariah_(film)

A view of the world from Scotland, at the last day of the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, November 2021. Tim gets more inside views from Scottish government insider Bru-Anon.

Mic Feed From Cop26, 13th November 2021, Stock Taking not happening, 3pm approx by The BeeKeepers

A view of the world from Scotland, at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, November 2021. Tim gets an inside view from the conference and talks to Scottish government insider Bru-Anon.

Vincent Price's elegant dinners by The BeeKeepers

A two-part journey through the psychedelic cinema of Joe Masott. In part one, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1968 oddity 'Wonderwall' which inspired the Oasis song, and the original film score by George Harrison and some of India's finest classical musicians. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderwall_Music * https://www.georgeharrison.com/releases/wonderwall-music/

Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1959 version of 'The Bat Whispers', an inspiration for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman, starring Vincent Price en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1959_film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1HaOM9LiE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Hour_of_Great_Mysteries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mClkknsvC4 More on the Beekeepers website... https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-shadow-of-the-bat/

Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1959 version of 'The Bat Whispers', an inspiration for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman, starring Vincent Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1959_film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1HaOM9LiE The Snoop Sisters 'Black Day For Bluebeard' (1974) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSw-5TjQCs More on the Beekeepers website... https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-shadow-of-the-bat

Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss inspirations for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman: Roland West’s 1926 silent noirish thriller ‘The Bat‘ and his talkie remake, 1930’s ‘The Bat Whispers‘. * The Bat (1926) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1926_film) https://archive.org/details/TheBat1926WithSoundtrack * The Bat Whispers (1930) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_Whispers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgEKm7-kOM

Episode One: Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites)discuss Hitchock’s 1925 film ‘The Pleasure Garden‘ and Germaine Dulac’s ‘La Souriante Madame Beudet‘ (1923). *The Pleasure Garden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pleasure_Garden_(1925_film) *La Souriante Madame Beudet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Souriante_Madame_Beudet *Shruti mentions Tami Williams’s book ‘Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations‘. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/47yxb8mr9780252038471.html * The Pleasure Garden (1925) https://youtu.be/4hoMKZOoNcw * La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) With English Subtitles https://youtu.be/1VA8NBhipvs * Hitchcock-Truffaut Episode 1: Youth, Influences, First jobs (1962) With English Subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq51gq4s5r4

Bonus podcast introducing the ebook guide to the Scala map, 'What is crouching and why does it end?' A love letter to London cinema and London cinema buildings, read by noted sentimentalists Roz Kaveney (@ RozKaveney) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites). Linking every station on London’s Underground to a movie made at, near or to do with it, over 345 illustrated pages with numerous detailed maps, the guide imagines the city as a film programme at the legendary Scala film club at Kings Cross in the 1980s. £4. DRM-free PDF. Free updates when we bring out new editions. Buy it now at www.thebeekeepers.com * The title of this essay is inspired by a Stephen King's Lovecraftian short story 'Crouch End' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End_(short_story) * Music included in the essay 1. Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima 2. Antonín Dvorák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World', Op. 95, B. 178 (aka 'The New World Symphony') (1893) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k) 3. R D Burman and Anand Bakshi - Yeh Dosti from 'Sholay' (1975) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay#Music 4. Barry Adamson - Everything Happens to Me (1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Side_Story 5. Miklós Rózsa- Eternal Silence from 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' (1970) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa#Film_scores 6. Friedrich Hollaender - Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt (aka 'Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)') (1930) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_in_Love_Again_(Can%27t_Help_It) 7. Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner - Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler? (1968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad%27s_Army#Music 8. David Bowie - Helden (German version of 'Heroes') (1977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_song)#Other_releases 9. Moondog - Lament 1 (Bird's Lament) (1969) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog_(album) 10. Eric Satie - Nocturnes (1919) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes_(Satie) 11. X-Ray Spexs - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo (1978) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Spex#Singles 12. The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode (1992) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Goode

Part two of a two-parter, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk about Robert Wise's 1971 film based on Michael Crichton's novel, and Felipe Cazals's 1978 film from a Gabriel García Márquez screenplay based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel 'A Journal of The Plague Year'. NSFW (swearing, sexual themes). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_a%C3%B1o_de_la_peste https://youtu.be/sprYIRyAQcw

A sampler of the varied career and influences of Blue Note Jazz artist, film and TV composer, and electronic music pioneer Gil Mellé. https://jazztimes.com/archives/gil-melle-instrumental-inventions/

Part one of a two-parter, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk about Robert Wise's 1971 film based on Michael Crichton's novel, and Felipe Cazals's 1978 film from a Gabriel García Márquez screenplay based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel 'A Journal of The Plague Year'. NSFW (swearing, sexual themes). In part one, we discuss Shruti's experiences in the Mumbai flood of 2003 and the work of the composer of the innovative electronic score of 'The Andromeda Strain', Gil Mellé. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_a%C3%B1o_de_la_peste * Music 'Yo te Amo... Yo Tampoco' Isela Vega (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcJtvH7R9k Gil Mellé compilation 'Desert Trip' Andromeda Strain OST (1971) 'Four Moons' Gil Mellé Quintet, on 'New Faces, New Sounds' 'Blue Note 5020' (1953) 'The Desert' Six Million Dollar Man (1973) 'Night Gallery Theme' (1969) 'Neon Canyons' on 'Mindscape' (1989) 'Kolchak The Night Stalker theme' (1974)

Bat Amazons! Part two of a Halloween, Batwoman special, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk some more about all-girl garage bands, Indian and Mexican women super heroes, and Sixties Batwoman ripoffs. 'The Wild World of Batwoman' archive.org/details/TheWildWorldOfBatwomanVose 'La Mujer Murcielago' (The Mexican Batwoman) archive.org/details/LaMujerMurcielago More on the Beekeepers website... http://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-wild-world-of-batwomen/

Bat Amazons! Part one of a Batwoman special, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites)talk all-girl garage bands, Indian and Mexican women super heroes, and Sixties Batwoman ripoffs. 'The Wild World of Batwoman' https://archive.org/details/TheWildWorldOfBatwomanVose 'La Mujer Murcielago' (The Mexican Batwoman) https://archive.org/details/LaMujerMurcielago More on the missing Indian film about female master criminal 'The Wildcat of Bombay' (including rare stills from the song booklet) http://www.mahalmovies.com/film-hunt/bambai-ki-billi/ More on Mary Evans aka 'Fearless Nadia' http://www.mahalmovies.com/film-hunt/hunterwali/ 'Supermen of Malegaon' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRq7ZpjF0I More on the Beekeepers website... http://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-wild-world-of-batwomen/

A special pro-rogue edition of Music for Films, the underground film podcast, kept in reserve for times of national emergency. Roz and Tim showcase their field recordings of London streets and locations, from some of the holy places of cinema and pop culture: Bowie's birthplace in Stockwell, Roz's memories of serial killer Dennis Nilson, and Angela Carter's favourite cinema, the Grenada in Tooting.