You’re listening to Cinesthesia, produced live in the studio at Trent Radio 92.7 CFFF FM in beautiful (Nogojiwanong) Peterborough, Ontario, every Thursday at 5 PM. It’s also a podcast on SoundProof, creative nonfiction for audio. I’m your producer and host, LA Alfonso. Film theory meets film music in Cinesthesia.
Original Radio Broadcast: Feb. 1, 2024 • PLAYLIST • Sarah McInnis / Only Now (album: Threads) • Sarah McInnis / To the Water (album: Threads) • 3C84 Ft. Sarah McInnis / When I Was Dead (live performance recording) • Edward Artemyev / Meditation (film: Stalker) • John Williams / The Raiders March (film: Raiders of the Lost Ark) • John Williams / Theme (film: Jaws) • John Williams / a. Out to Sea b. The Shark Cage Fugue (film: Jaws) • John Williams / Exultate Justi (film: Empire of the Sun) • Radwan Ghazi Moumneh / Éstrangelment (film: Déserts) • Radwan Ghazi Moumneh / Fight (film: Déserts) • Radwan Ghazi Moumneh / Note (film: Déserts) • Radwan Ghazi Moumneh / The Immaculate (film: Déserts) • Alexandre St-Onge / Désert (film: Déserts) • Sarah McInnis / Kyle’s Song Ft. Aquakultre / (album: Threads)
Quoted in the New York Times in 2019, director Martin Scorsese gained fame by saying, “Marvel Movies aren’t cinema.” The director of such movies as Taxi Driver and Goodfellas said, “Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected. In superhero movies, nothing is at risk,” he said. In The Guardian, in the same year, he said, “Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.” According to the newspaper, the head of Marvel, Kevin Feige, responded to the criticism by saying, “Maybe it’s easy to dismiss VFX or flying people or spaceships or billion dollar grosses [but, he notes] Alfred Hitchock never won best director, so…it doesn’t mean everything.” He said, “I would much rather be in a room full of engaged fans.”
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