Vanity Fair's Top Ten Movie Soundtracks

BuzzSugar — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:30:00 -0700

As with so many top whatever lists, this one, put together by the editors at Vanity Fair, has some that I completely agree with and others that leave me scratching my head. The Big Chill is a good one, as is Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction. But I'm surprised Magnolia's not on here, and I would think Forrest Gump might get a spot, too.

I know many of you participated in my Buzzworthy challenge to bookmark your favorite movie soundtracks a while ago, but tell me again (or for the first time): Which soundtracks do you think should be on a "top ten" list?

Vanity Fair's Top Ten Film Soundtracks:

10. The Big Chill
9. American Graffiti
8. Saturday Night Fever
7. Trainspotting
6. Superfly
5. The Graduate
4. Pulp Fiction
3. The Harder They Come
2. A Hard Day's Night
1. Purple Rain

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis to Pen The Golden Suicides

BuzzSugar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:31:46 -0700

A couple years ago, the art world was rocked by a pair of deaths when Jeremy Blake and his girlfriend Theresa Duncan committed suicide within days of each other amid allegations of paranoia and harassment by Scientologists. Dubbed "The Golden Suicides" by Vanity Fair, the tragedy attracted attention because of the beauty and glamour of the couple, their friendship with musician Beck, and the mystery surrounding their passing.

Their compelling story is now getting the movie treatment: Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are working on a screenplay together for a film based on the Vanity Fair article.

I was personally fascinated by the article and the lives of Duncan and Blake when news of their suicides broke (I'd actually seen one of Blake's exhibits at the SF MoMA years before). I think Van Sant and Ellis will give considerable weight to this dismal subject matter - Van Sant is coming off of Milk, and Ellis is the author of heavy, zeitgeisty tomes like American Psycho and Less Than Zero.