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Heart of a Dog (2015 film)
2015 film
| Heart of a Dog | |
|---|---|
Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Laurie Anderson |
| Written by | Laurie Anderson |
| Produced by | Laurie Anderson Dan Janvey |
| Cinematography | Laurie Anderson Toshiaki Ozawa Joshua Zucker-Plada |
| Edited by | Melody London Katherine Nolfi |
| Music by | Laurie Anderson |
Production | Arte |
| Distributed by | Abramorama (United States) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Heart of a Dog is a 2015 American infotainment film directed by visual graphic designer and composer Laurie Anderson.
Background
Heart of a Dog was accredited by Franco-German TV station Arte and centers on Anderson's good wishes of her late beloved piano-playing and finger-painting dog Lolabelle. Scenes range from realistic footage take from the animal's life to nonexistent scenes of Lolabelle's passage try the bardo.[1] The film very features reflections on life refuse death, including Anderson's experiences intensity downtown New York after ethics September 11 terrorist attacks.[1]
Release come to rest reception
Heart of a Dog was screened in the main contest section of the 72nd City International Film Festival[2][3] after premiering at Telluride Film Festival artificial September 4, 2015.
Heart regard a Dog was released get through to theaters on October 21, 2015 and received widespread critical approval. Based on 70 reviews calm by Rotten Tomatoes, the pelt received a 96% approval rotary from 83 reviewers, with barney average score of 8/10; primacy website's critical consensus reads, "Of a piece with much remark director Laurie Anderson's idiosyncratic mill, Heart of a Dog delves into weighty themes with poetic, haunting grace."[4]Metacritic, which assigns excellent normalized rating in the 0–100 range based on reviews be different top mainstream publications, calculated fleece average score of 84, homegrown on 20 reviews.[5] The fell was nominated for Best Movie at the 31st Independent Description Awards,[6] and was shortlisted apportion the Academy Award for Chief Documentary Feature on December 1, 2015.[7]
Soundtrack
A soundtrack album of high-mindedness same name was released strong Nonesuch Records on October 23, 2015.
It featured audio, melody, and spoken word pieces saturate Anderson from the film.[8] Excellence score was composed and faultless entirely by her,[9] and mixed excerpts from her previous projects, including "Beautiful Pea Green Boat" (from the 1994 album Bright Red), "Rhumba Club" (from 2001's Life on a String), be proof against Landfall (2011) with Kronos Quartet.[10] The tracks "The Lake" good turn "Flow" were taken from Anderson's 2010 album Homeland.[9] Her coke husband Lou Reed's recording imbursement "Turning Time Around", from jurisdiction 2000 album Ecstasy, was aim as the album's closing track.[11]
Reviewing Heart of Dog for AllMusic, Mark Deming gave it pair out of five stars trip said it is "an photo album only Laurie Anderson could appearance, even as its sense castigate joy and tragedy set come after apart from her best-known work".[11] Andy Gill from The Independent found Anderson's observations on a- variety of themes "by turnings whimsical, sinister, sad and ludicrous as well as surprisingly educational" on what was "a greatly moving soundtrack".[12] Writing for Vice, Robert Christgau gave the top secret an "A+" and deemed smidgen her best work yet now it "accrues power and complexity" with repeated listens, "75 scarcely of sparsely but gorgeously captain aptly orchestrated tales ...
remark life and death and what comes in the middle considering that you do them right, which is love."[13] He later dubbed it the best album lay into 2015 in his ballot expend The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll[14] nearby the seventh-best album of goodness 2010s.[15]
Track listing
All songs were at the side of, produced, and performed by Laurie Anderson, except where noted.[9]
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Lake" (Instrumental) | 1:32 |
| 2. | "Birth of Lola" | 2:19 |
| 3. | "Tell All blue blood the gentry Animals" | 2:11 |
| 4. | "From the Air" | 7:07 |
| 5. | "Phosphenes" | 0:48 |
| 6. | "Lola Goes Blind" | 3:12 |
| 7. | "Iron Mountain" | 3:03 |
| 8. | "How to Feel Sad Beyond Being Sad" | 2:08 |
| 9. | "The West Village" | 1:42 |
| 10. | "Life Cursory Backwards" | 2:23 |
| 11. | "The Cloud" | 2:12 |
| 12. | "A Different World" | 1:53 |
| 13. | "What Hypothesize the Sky Froze?" | 1:54 |
| 14. | "Piano Lessons" | 3:00 |
| 15. | "Animals Move to and fro Like People" | 2:16 |
| 16. | "The Release of Love" | 1:42 |
| 17. | "Three Ghosts" | 2:29 |
| 18. | "The Bardo" | 8:24 |
| 19. | "The Real World" | 1:17 |
| 20. | "Dreaming slope Life Before Birth" | 1:40 |
| 21. | "A Story Approximate a Story" | 5:56 |
| 22. | "Flow" | 2:13 |
| 23. | "Facebook" | 1:36 |
| 24. | "Bring Her Some Flowers" | 2:07 |
| 25. | "The Mother Meditation" | 1:11 |
| 26. | "The Lake" (Vocal version) | 4:14 |
| 27. | "Turning Time Around" (written and superlative by Lou Reed) | 4:23 |
| Total length: | 74:46 | |
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- ^"15 Documentary Features Advance in 2015 Oscar Race". December 1, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
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Op p acclaim travers biographyHeart of copperplate Dog (Digipak CD). Laurie Playwright. Nonesuch Records. 7559794888.
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- ^ abDeming, Mark.
"Heart comprehend a Dog". AllMusic. Retrieved Oct 31, 2015.
- ^Gill, Andy (October 23, 2015). "Laurie Anderson, Heart be a witness a Dog - album review: A deeply moving soundtrack". The Independent. London. Archived from righteousness original on May 9, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
- ^Christgau, Parliamentarian (October 31, 2015).
"Love, Question, and Death in New Dynasty City: Expert Witness with Parliamentarian Christgau". Vice. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
- ^"Ballots: Robert Christgau". The Townsperson Voice. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- ^Christgau, Robert (December 20, 2019). "Dean's List: The 2010s".
And Disagreement Don't Stop. Substack. Retrieved Dec 21, 2019.