Barry Sonnenfeld on Shooting Miller's Crossing

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, 1956

Here are a few more videos of the good Bishop.

Dougie MacLean, Scottish Song Writer

Gael from the Last of the Mohicans.


Randy Edelman and Trevor Jones adopted this song "The Search" from Scottish singer song-writer, Dougie MacLean. Ambush scene from the Last of the Mohicans

"The Gael" by Albannach

Julie Fowlis, Gaelic Folk Song

Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

I was amazed that they could sustain this tune as long and as accurately as they did. Impressive.


Impressive short on Julie Fowlis' musical trajectory.
Tha Mo Ghaol Air Aird A'Chuain

The lyrics to this one are beautiful.

Clannad, Of This Land

Beautiful. Healing.

Lyrics to "Of This Land" by Clannad

How gentle was the breeze
That Surrounded the way
How loud the sea's roar on the four

Winds everyday
Sharing love, wounded gifts from
Ancient long ago

Together they closed in the circles we know

Will we treasure all the secrets with life's changing scenes
Where our hearts were warm with love

So much love
Will the flowers grow again as I open
Out my hand

Precious time
Time for healing
The beauty of this land (2x)

We will treasure all the secrets with life's changing scenes
Where our hearts were warm with love
So much love

Will the flowers grow again as I open
Out my hand

Precious time
Time for healing
The beauty of this land

How soulful those words that confuses the way
How wild the mountains stare as they guard our everyday
Take for granted noble hearts in the golden age that's flown
Between us recall on a strong road we've known

We will treasure all the secrets with life's changing scenes
Where our hearts were warm with love
So much love
Will the flowers grow again as I open
Out my hand

Precious time
Time for healing
The beauty of this land


This is Clannad's "I Will Find You."  The pace is quickened compared to the original and the version used in Michael Mann's film The Last of the Mohicans.  I'm posting it here because I liked the message in this version.  It is a woman who is looking for aspects of herself that she's lost through time.  I guess it assumes a bit of a split personality, where she has lost herself and now she is trying to find herself, all historical periods of herself.  She wasn't looking so much for a man but for love, the love contained in an earlier self.  That's my reading of it, and I liked it.  Here is the video:



Clannad "I Will Find You Lyrics"

Songwriters: BRENNAN, CIARAN MARION

Hope is your survival
A captive path I lead

No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a long long time
No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a thousand years

(mohican)
Nachgochema
Anetaha
Anachemowagan

No matter where you go
I will find you
In the place with no frontiers
No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a thousand years


(cherokee)
Hale wú yu ga I sv
Do na dio sv i
Wi ja lo sv
Ha le wú yu
Do na dlo sv

No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a long long time
No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a thousand years

No matter where you go
I will find you
In the place with no frontiers
No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a thousand years

No matter where you go
I will find you

I Will Find You lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, FOX MUSIC, INC.

"I Will Find You" as seen in The Last of the Mohicans:

And here is a live performance:

Sami Yusuf

Not sure whether Sami Yusuf is a Christian or not.  I don't think so.  He is Iranian.  But produces blockbuster albums. 

More Tony Richardson, Mademoiselle, 1966

Mademoiselle.

The Loved One, 1965

This came recommended by Butler Shaffer. I like Robert Morse, Rod Steiger,
Jonathan Winters, James Colburn, and John Gilgud.

Nick Nolte, One of the Best

Richard Basehart in He Walked By Night

Dancing

Catherine posted this to Facebook. I loved watching all of the entertainers. It's title is called "Let's Dance."

The clips of dancers is put to music by a band called The Killers. The song is "All These Things That I've Done." The lyrics are here.

Great Cajun Music from John Sayles' Passion Fish

A couple of great musical scenes from John Sayles' Passion Fish. Here is the soundtrack to the movie. And here is the movie.

Allison Krauss

I've loved Allison Krauss ever since I heard her sing with Union Station "A Man of Constant Sorrow."

I love this song, "Let's Go Down to the River," but this is the best version I have been able to find; unfortunately, I could not embed it.  It's here.
This was beautiful, "Go to Sleep You Little Baby."

Coctaw  Hayride is pretty good.

Allison Krauss' "Go Down to the River to Pray."

Siren scene in O, Brother Where Art Thou?, "Go to Sleep Little Baby."


"Go Down to the River to Pray"

HAZEL DICKENS, 1925-2011

I first heard Hazel Dickens when I first saw John Sayles' movie Matewan about the coal miner strikes of the 1920's.  There is a scene where one of the young miners is killed by operatives of the Baldwin Felts Agency.  At his funeral, Hazel Dickens' character sings a moving mountain dirge that has since brought me to tears every time I hear it.  It's beautiful.  I hope that you enjoy it.   The song, "Gathering Storm," was written expressly for this film by Mason Daring, an American musician.

The lyrics to the song are here:

Deliver us from the gathering storm

Unworthy though we are

Leave us living safe and warm

And sheltered in your arms.

Fallen out of grace are we.

Sin us never more to thee

Deliver us from the gathering storm

Unworthy though we are.

Deliver us from the shadow

And brighten us our night

O lift us out of the valley of sin

And leave our path in light.

Fallen out of grace are we

Sin us never more to thee.

Deliver us from the gathering storm

Unworthy though we are.   

This seems rare.  

Her song "Hills of Galilee" is stunning.  It could make you cry.