The Ghost Goes West (1935) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch

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  The Ghost Goes West (1935) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch  British Film, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance Venice Film Festival, 1936-  Official Selection National Board of Review, 1936- Winner: Top Foreign Films When French director René Clair crossed the English Channel to make his first British film, nobody quite expected him to deliver a comedy that would feel so undeniably American in its spirit. The result was The Ghost Goes West , a delightful 1935 satirical fantasy that took a gentle, witty jab at the clash between old-world Scottish tradition and new-world American commercialism. More on Wikipedia or Mubi  A Ghost That Conquered America  The story kicks off in the rugged, misty highlands of Scotland, where Murdoch Glourie, a dashing but somewhat cowardly 18th-century Scotsman, dies in a ridiculous explosion of gunpowder. Because he failed to avenge an insult to his family name, Murdoch is doomed to haunt his ancestral castle until he can find a w...
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Listen Good Time Soundtrack (2017)

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Good Time is a 2017 American crime thriller film directed by Josh and Benny Safdie and written by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. It stars Robert Pattinson as a small-time criminal who tries to free his developmentally disabled brother, played by Benny Safdie, from police custody, while attempting to avoid his own arrest; Buddy Duress, Taliah Lennice Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Barkhad Abdi co-star. Electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never composed the film's score.

Good Time was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2017. The film was released in select theaters on August 11, 2017, before expanding wide on August 25. It received highly positive reviews from critics, with praise for Pattinson's performance, the direction, the story, and the music. 

Good Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is a soundtrack album by American electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never, containing the score for the Safdie brothers' 2017 film Good Time. It was released on August 10, 2017 via Warp Records.

The soundtrack received positive reviews from critics, and won the Soundtrack Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. It includes a collaboration with singer Iggy Pop.

Following the film's premier at Cannes Film Festival, Lopatin's score won the festival's Soundtrack Award. It was later released as an album via Warp Records. The album has received generally positive reviews from critics, with an aggregate score of 79 out of 100 at Metacritic.

A video for the track "The Pure and the Damned" was released, directed by the Safdie brothers and featuring Robert Pattinson and Benny Safdie reprising their roles from the movie.

All tracks written by Daniel Lopatin. "The Pure and the Damned" co-written by Iggy Pop.










































  

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