Some Blu-ray Disc players, such as those from Oppo, can do what I'm about to describe, but Oppo no longer exists. If one has an Oppo player, that's great. For everyone else, I highly recommend purchasing a $199 NVIDIA Shield TV Pro. The Shield is identical in concept to an AppleTV or Roku, but has better flexibility and support for a library of TrueHD Atmos music (or movies) and using the passthrough function to send bit perfect trueHD Atmos music to an external processor.
Even if this were a bare-bones Blu, it would be worth celebrating, but there's much more. First, the soundtrack: originally, there was a Talking Heads album of the band performing all the songs, and a separate album of incidental score and tunes, but neither included the Talking Heads songs sung by other characters. The new CD included with the Blu-ray rectifies this, with a full soundtrack including three Talking Heads songs, the other songs as sung by the actors, and every other tune heard in the background. Liner notes are printed on a fold-out mini-tabloid printed on newsprint, which is fun (it includes an essay by Spalding Gray, and the original Weekly World News stories) but ultimately annoying. The soundtrack disc has its own cardboard sleeve, and so you have to cram it and the newspaper into the case in a way that could have been rectified by making the jewel box hold two discs, and putting the liner notes on a standard booklet. All the contents are worth it, but just cumbersome.
True Stories (full onscreen title: True Stories: A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil Texas.) is a 1986 American satirical musical comedy film directed by David Byrne, who stars alongside John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. The majority of the film's music is supplied by Talking Heads. A soundtrack album, titled Sounds from True Stories, featured songs by Byrne, Talking Heads, Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band, and others. Around the same time, Talking Heads released an album titled True Stories, composed of studio recordings of songs featured in the film.
Stephen Tobolowsky recounts in an episode of his podcast The Tobolowsky Files that he and his girlfriend Beth Henley met David Byrne and Talking Heads when Jonathan Demme invited them to a preview screening of Stop Making Sense. Shortly afterward, Byrne invited Henley and Tobolowsky over to his house and showed them a collection of hundreds of drawings he had made and put up on his wall. He explained they were based on clippings he had scrapbooked from tabloids as the band had been on tour. He had been intrigued by the idea of making a film based on the premise, "What if all these stories were true?" and wanted Henley and Tobolowsky to write the script based on those drawings.[3]
Talking Heads released an album titled True Stories in which the band performs most of the songs from the film, including songs that were performed by the actors in the film. As such, the album is not generally considered a true soundtrack album, a fact Byrne points out in his liner notes on the release. Later, Byrne released an album containing primarily instrumental music from the soundtrack titled Sounds from True Stories.
While several of the cast performances were released as bonus tracks on 12-inch single releases, no full album of cast performances was released until 2018 (see below). Prior to 2018, few of the original versions of songs from the film found official release. The St. Thomas Aquinas School Choir's version of "Hey Now" was released on the 1987 Talking Heads UK CD single, "Radio Head"; the Pops Staples version of "Papa Legba" and Tito Larriva's version of "Radio Head" appear as extra tracks on the 2006 Rhino reissue of True Stories; and John Goodman's version of "People Like Us" was initially released as the B-side to the single for "Wild Wild Life" and later was released on the 2006 digital compilation Bonus Rarities and Outtakes, but the rest of the songs whose versions differ between the movie and album (John Ingle's "Puzzling Evidence" and Annie McEnroe's "Dream Operator") were not officially available. "Cocktail Desperado", recorded by Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band and featured in the film, is included on the Sounds from True Stories LP.
In November 2018, True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack, a comprehensive soundtrack album with 23 songs as they were recorded for the film, was released.[11] This marked the first time that the complete True Stories soundtrack was made publicly available, 32 years after the movie's original release. The soundtrack was issued to coincide with Criterion's 2018 DVD and Blu-ray release of the film, the latter of which it was also packaged with. The new-edition soundtrack includes the three Talking Heads performances with David Byrne on lead vocals that are featured in the movie, "Wild Wild Life," "Love for Sale," and "City of Dreams", which are the same recordings included on the Talking Heads album True Stories; otherwise, the material does not overlap with the Talking Heads album. The new edition includes the first official commercial release of McEnroe's "Dream Operator" and Ingle's "Puzzlin' Evidence".
From a production standpoint, Red is a gorgeous film. The animation is fluid, the character designs convey a lot of personality, and the sound design imbues every attack with the appropriate amount of impact. The animation also isn't afraid to get weird and surreal in its last fight, with Uta's ultimate form almost coming across like a witch from Madoka Magica rather than a One Piece villain. Tying everything together is the soundtrack. Particular praise needs to go to all the songs Uta sings. Japanese singer Ado nails every one of Uta's songs, conveying an impressive range of emotions for the singer-turned-villain. Though it is a shame that Uta's English voice actress Amanda Lee (who is an incredible singer in her own right) doesn't perform Uta's songs in the dub, it's undeniable that Ado's songs capture Uta perfectly.
Byrne plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces the audience to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas, shopping malls, and prefab metal buildings. In True Stories, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show-all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience. "
Based on a true story! When 4-year-old Colton Burpo emerges from life-threatening surgery, he offers an astounding account of his journey to heaven---including things that happened before he was born. Can his parents find the courage and conviction to believe their son's experience is true---and share it with the world? Starring Greg Kinnear (We Were Soldiers) and Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows). Directed by Randall Wallace (Secretariat). Dove approved. Rated PG. Approx.100 minutes.
Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson bring to life the untold true story about the origins of one of the most treasured Disney classics of all time. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) directs this acclaimed film, which reveals the surprising backstory behind the making of Mary Poppins. Determined to fulfill a promise to his daughters, Walt Disney (Hanks) tries for twenty years to obtain the rights to author P.L. Travers' (Thompson) beloved book. Armed with his iconic creative vision, Walt pulls out all the stops, but the uncompromising Travers won't budge. Only when he reaches into his own complicated childhood does Walt discover the truth about the ghosts that haunt Travers, and together, they set Mary Poppins free.
In the special case of British Steel, four songs are featured: "Rapid Fire," "Metal Gods," "Breaking The Law," and perennial set closer, "Living After Midnight." Others exempted from the one-song-quota are the LPs which appeared before and after British Steel. The first of these is 1979's Hell Bent For Leather (UK title: Killing Machine) which lends the title song as well as "The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)." The other LP is 1982's Screaming For Vengeance, source of "The Hellion," "Electric Eye," and "You've Got Another Thing Coming."
"They have epitomized the genre with their Harley riding frontman, rapid-fire guitar assaults, and spectacular stage shows," wrote journalist Bryan Reesman in his liner notes for 2004's leather-bound, metal-spiked Metalogy box set. "Influential, innovative, and exuberant in expression," he wrote, "they are the true Metal Gods who have been as unwavering in their desire to expand the boundaries of their music as they have been in crossing international borders to deliver it to their disciples."
"Unabashedly committed to their cause, and unrepentant in proclaiming themselves a true heavy metal band even when others have shied away from the term, Judas Priest have forever been defenders of the faith."
'Gimme Some Truth' is the groundbreaking, Grammy Award-winning film that chronicles the creative process of how the Imagine album came into being, in turn providing a glimpse into Lennon's creative genius and including many striking, special moments between John & Yoko.
The progress of the making of the songs featured on the album is followed through from their inception to the final recording process in 'Gimme Some Truth,' with the film serving as a stunning, fly-on-the-wall document of how one of the most iconic and important albums of the rock era came into being.