list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Rainbow Around the Sun on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Rainbow_Around_the_Sun/365108/default.aspx Title: Rainbow Around the Sun
Year: 2008
Director: Beau Leleand
Plot: His personal life on a hopeless downward spiral, hard-drinking songwriter Zachary Blasto (Alvin Brown) loses himself in a series of vivid musical fantasies in order to avoid the bleak reality of his mundane life. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:12:37 GMTRainbow Around the Sun2008Beau LeleandHis personal life on a hopeless downward spiral, hard-drinking songwriter Zachary Blasto (Alvin Brown) loses himself in a series of vivid musical fantasies in order to avoid the bleak reality of his mundane life. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide19Tag Target (>10)115http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s365108.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Rainbow_Around_the_Sun/365108/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/8/25976.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 3/8/2008 9:01:00 AM
Body: Rock musicals about rock stars are almost as tiring as independent films about independent filmmakers. They’re too self-involved and too self-satisfying, and they typically have nothing for an objective viewer to grab hold of. But at least with rock musicals, if the audience can dig the music, they can maybe dig the movie, too. This has been the case, for me at least, with such films as Velvet Goldmine and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, neither of which I would have been so into were it not for their excellent glam rock soundtracks. And now the same goes for Rainbow Around the Sun, a neat little low-budget musical fantasy, which interestingly enough also has a touch of glam in its songs, about a very cliché band leader and his very cliché drinking problem and his very cliché story of heartbreak. Here, more than the songs, though, it’s the musical numbers, many of which work on their own as great music videos, that really kept me interested. That tired tale of the troubled, tortured artist/poet/rock star is merely a thin thread for Rainbow Around the Sun, which was adapted from an autobiographical album of the same name by Matthew Alvin Brown, who also stars in the film as singer-guitarist-drunk Zachary Blasto. The plot is like an afterthought, concocted only to connect the album tracks and their “videos”, and though the songs seem like they’re supposed to comment on the story, it’s really apparent that it came about the other way around, that the story is in fact meant only to put the songs into a context. I’d probably have enjoyed it as much, if not more, though, without the loose narrative and its underdeveloped scenes. The film could still have been what it actually is anyway: a cinematic concept album. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:01:00 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/8/2008 9:01:00 AM Rock musicals about rock stars are almost as tiring as independent films about independent filmmakers. They’re too self-involved and too self-satisfying, and they typically have nothing for an objective viewer to grab hold of. But at least with rock musicals, if the audience can dig the music, they can maybe dig the movie, too. This has been the case, for me at least, with such films as Velvet Goldmine and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, neither of which I would have been so into were it not for their excellent glam rock soundtracks. And now the same goes for Rainbow Around the Sun, a neat little low-budget musical fantasy, which interestingly enough also has a touch of glam in its songs, about a very cliché band leader and his very cliché drinking problem and his very cliché story of heartbreak. Here, more than the songs, though, it’s the musical numbers, many of which work on their own as great music videos, that really kept me interested. That tired tale of the troubled, tortured artist/poet/rock star is merely a thin thread for Rainbow Around the Sun, which was adapted from an autobiographical album of the same name by Matthew Alvin Brown, who also stars in the film as singer-guitarist-drunk Zachary Blasto. The plot is like an afterthought, concocted only to connect the album tracks and their “videos”, and though the songs seem like they’re supposed to comment on the story, it’s really apparent that it came about the other way around, that the story is in fact meant only to put the songs into a context. I’d probably have enjoyed it as much, if not more, though, without the loose narrative and its underdeveloped scenes. The film could still have been what it actually is anyway: a cinematic concept album. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/music/MemberTagFilms.aspxmusic
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