Author: Chelsea Spear

Tina Turner turned in a pair of indelible screen performances that extended—and, in some cases, subverted—the qualities that made her appealing on record and in concert.

With their final film together out this week, a look at the decades-long creative collaboration between the director and the musician.

Neil Jordan’s collaboration with Sinead O’Connor is a lasting testament to their friendship and to the values in which she was most invested.

In the early days of hip hop, the nascent genre had a visual counterpart in graffiti culture. Just as the spare […]

Some of the singer-songwriter’s most substantial films were made with Wittliff, a fellow Texan who expanded upon the characters and stories in Nelson’s songs over three feature films.

The recently departed composer’s ability to set a mood through memorable melodies and canny vocal arrangements added to the timelessness and relatability of beloved feature films, while elevating some of the tackier basic-cable fare of the 1980s and beyond.

Cale’s scores offer some insight into the development of his ideas, and should be viewed as an even more experimental facet of a peripatetic and engaging career.