#Songcatcher movie

[murderballadeer]

SONGCATCHER IS LIKE SORT OF NOT GOOD. BUT. it also is worth the watch imo as someone also obsessed with folk music. like its sort of insane in unexpected ways

LMAO ok good to know! tbh if i at least get some neat music stuff out of it i will be happy but i am also apprehensive bc well it is never fun to see a bad movie about a topic you are deeply invested in. i will be sure to report back with my findings o7

[wolfnowl]

The Woman Who Saved Native Song

Good for her! 🎶🎵🎶

Reminds me of the movie, "Songcatcher"

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Aiden Quinn as Tom Bledsoe in Songcatcher (2000). Aiden was born in Chicago and has 93 acting credits from a 1981 tv episode to 2023. His entry among my best 1001 movies is The Assignment. This is his second honorable mention, after Looking for Richard.

His other notable credits include Desperately Seeking Susan, The Mission, Crusoe (as Crusoe), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Legends of the Fall, Michael Collins, Practical Magic, 13 episodes of Prime Suspect, and 154 episodes of Elementary.

[latemorninglullaby]

Songcatcher (2000)

[tallmadgeandtea]

Here’s a really good playlist I’ve found on the Child Ballads! Totally check it out if you want to get into traditional English and Scottish folk, as well as early American/Appalachian

[autumncottageattic]

Songcatcher (2000)

[daughterofelros]

Thanks to @jocarthage for tagging me! Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to! Put your music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people.

1.) Suzanne by Fairport Convention- This is really a Leonard Cohen songs, but this cover is the one I first heard, and my favorite. 2.) My Type by The Chainsmokers (Feat. Emily Warren) (this one is so evocative-- I'm right there in this person's head from the first note...even though this is not remotely my lived experience.)

3.) Arlington, by Trace Adkins- This song has always made me cry-- no matter my complicated feelings about the military. I definitely don't cry *less* now that my job includes applying for and folding Veteran's flags.

4.) This Life (Theme from Sons of Anarchy) by Curtis Stigers & The Forest Rangers. -- Holy crap does this put be back in my final days of college.

5.) Alibi by Dessa-- Fuck, any song my Dessa is going to have lyrics that make me swoon. One of the ones I love in this one is "Word on the street is a page out of Blake/ your man made money but he made mistakes" (The reference to Songs of Innocence in a rap song? I swoon again).

6.) Barbara Allen by Emmy Rossum (from the movie Songcatcher). So we have...several family friends who were in Songcatcher. This entire soundtrack is AMAZING if you like folk music. Mom and I used to play it for weeks on end on the drive to school.

7.) Bright Path by Jack Gladstone- I assume no one will have heard of Jack Gladstone, but this man is the reason why I learned 96% of the indigenous history of this country. He's a Blackfoot Indian and an oral historian-- his songs are why I know about Code Talkers, Napi, the Battle of Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull's resistance to the U.S. Army, and the story of how Jim Thorpe (a.k.a. Bright Path)- the first Native person to win an Olympic Gold (he won both the Pentathlon and Decathlon in the 1912 Olympics and was regarded as the best athlete in the entire world... and then was stripped of his medals on a trumped-up basis- that he had been paid about $2/day in summer baseball leagues (as most college athletes did at the time). It wasn't until 1983 before the summer games in Los Angeles that the IOC restores his medals were returned to his family, and and his records returned to the books... 30 years after his death. Frankly, this one historian is why I knew the facts of injustices done to Indigenous people on this continent from a young age, and understood those done to other marginalized communities as well... because of one assembly at elementary school, and parents who made car rides about interrogating the norms of this land's history.

8.) Still Hurting from The Last 5 Years- An amazing show... but in hindsight, a somewhat awkward soundtrack to lose one's virginity to-- being, as it is, a musical about the bitter dissolution of a relationship.

9.) Code of Silence by Billy Joel-- Look, I love the lyrics of most Billy Joel songs, I was raised on them... and this one works on a lot of levels for RNM, actually. "You can't talk about it, 'cause you're living by a code of silence...when you've really got a lot to say"

10.) The Wind That Shakes The Barley-- Irish folk songs about- what else- Rebellion and the English killing one's lover. Like they do.

So... I like folk, songs that tell stories, theatre, and history... and somehow this didn't actually hit on a Taylor Swift song, which seems frankly implausible, given my listening habits. Tagging @angrycowboy @ober-affen-geil @im-the-punk-who @suzteel @tasyfa @a1kitkat @angsty-nerd @maeglinthebold @haloud @dr-lemurr (I did absolutely no checking if anyone I tagged has already done this, and anyone who hasn't been tagged should consider me to have tagged them if they desire to do the thing. These are the types of lists I am Very Bad At, and we can just assume I want everyone to have fun)

[bognymph]

why is the songcatcher not have a bigger fandom on here like ...hello... ladies.... it has lesbians

old timey southern appalachia lesbians like come on this was the movie that first exposed me to the gay

[seblaine-rph]

Hi! How young do you think Emmy Rossum can portray?

Well, she started her acting career at about 11 years old in 1997. She played in a soap opera, As The World Turns. She had three more big television roles before 2000, when she started hitting the big screen with her debut in Songcatcher. Since then, she’s done a variety of different things both on screen and musically. So it would depend on what resources you’re using. 

If you’re using stuff from her roles in 1997, then she can portray a really young child. If you’re using stuff from her teen years, she could play a teen. She’s got plans from 2019 to begin a new role that she’s probably filming right now, and when that dramatic tv series comes out on NBC then she’ll have even older looking resources to be used. 

I’ve seen a few roleplays with rules like, “your character has to be within 5 years of their current, real life age” but like... these people seem to forget that the world existed before today. Just because someone is 34 today, doesn’t mean they weren’t 21 or 25 or 12 or 15 or 11 at some other time in their life. And a lot of celebrities have resources through the ages, so they can be used flexibly in roleplays. You’re not casting a movie that has to be filmed today, you’ve got the opportunity to pick and choose which resources you do and don’t use and what era they come from. For example, I would never use resources of Grant Gustin from today as Sebastian Smythe in college or high school. But I still use resources from Glee-era, and because he was in stuff at a younger age than he is today, Grant Gustin can be my Sebastian Smythe fc forever. Even when he’s 90 himself, Sebastian can still be 25 with a Grant face if I want him to be.

[goodjohnjr]

Songcatcher

Source: IMDb

What is it?

The 2000 drama movie Songcatcher.

What is it about?

This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes this movie:

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in…

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Pat Carroll as Viney Butler in Songcatcher (2000). Pat was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, lived to be 95, and had 98 acting credits from 1948 to a voice in a 2022 Disney video game. Her entries among my best 1001 movies are The Little Mermaid, as the voice of Ursula, and a voice in the English version of My Neighbor Totoro.

Her other notable credits include 40 episodes of The Danny Thomas Show, a 1965 tv movie of Cinderella (as one of the ugly stepsisters), 20 episodes of Too Close for Comfort, 45 episodes of She's the Sheriff, and Bridesmaids.

[latemorninglullaby]

Songcatcher (2000)

[moonskek]

The pretty girl in the boat with the pink nightgown is most likely Christine from the movie version of The Phantom of the Opera!

Ah okay. Never seen it! I had to look her up though because she looks just like Lily from Legend! But it’s not her, but I knew I recognized her because she’s also in another favorite movie of mine, songcatcher. They look so much alike. 

[finishinglinepress]

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Poet Donna Isaac is a teaching artist who organizes community readings in the Twin Cities. Published work includes a poetry book, Footfalls(Pocahontas Press), a paean to American folk music and her formative years in the Appalachians; two chapbooks, Tommy (Red Dragonfly Press); Holy Comforter (Red Bird Chapbooks); and work in journals, e.g., Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, The Penn Review, The Saint Paul Almanac, e.g. <donnaisaacpoet.com>.

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In Persistence of Vision, Donna Isaac celebrates the role of movies in her life with an exuberant facility of diction, image, and sound. An homage to Charlie Chaplin, tells us, “We like prat-falling in the rain/dangling from industrial cogs, and toddling off into the sunset…” I also enjoy the way Isaac weaves the details of everyday life into her poems. In “Kiddie Matinees, her mother, ignorant of the “mayhem showing at the Saturday matinee”… “wanted us out of the house / so she could pine-sol the tile.” “Seeking” ends with Dorothy Gale back home with Auntie Em and Uncle Henry, “de-tasseling corn, canning tomatoes, helping Zeke slop the hogs.” My favorite poem in this joyful, poignant, and witty collection is “Songcatcher”:

I’d like to roam the mountains of North Carolina

wading in cold streams, warblers, veeries, and siskins

on the wing, fog awash on peaks,

the drama of Tanawha, sedges and spruce,

and collect tunes from folks who know

“Mary of the Wild Moor,” “Moonshiner,”

and “Fair and Tender Ladies,” crooned and warbled

on front porch chairs, salamanders askitter

in the goldenrod, silverlings dancing in the moonlight,

and all the cliff edges alive with avens.

My backpack filled with poetry,

I’d hike back down, push play, bake cornbread,

cook butter beans, sit a spell and rock back and forth,

back and forth, humming, eyes closed,

floating on reveries of misty blue.

–Patricia Barone (author of Your Funny, Funny Face)

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[south-gothic]

A funeral song form the movie "Songcatcher”

[slightlykylie]

Wistfully following the Songcatcher tag, like anyone is ever going to post to it

I don't know why I've had such a resurgence of fannish energy recently for a movie I discovered more than fifteen years ago, but it is Inconvenient