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I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Movies on the Radio, Live Edition.

It's Wednesday, June 6th, 2012, and on today's program, we have a special treat for you.

We're going to play you the audio of a live event that we just did at New York Public Radio's Green Space in collaboration with WQXR's David Garland. Steve is not here in the studio with us. Dana and I are going to be here to narrate a few of the clips we played and set it all up. But Steve will be joining us for endorsements at the end of the show. Dana, tell our listeners a little bit about how this collaboration came about. Yeah, this show was sort of my brainchild with David Garland, who's, as everyone knows, the host of my favorite radio show movies on the radio. And we were trying to think, how could we bring our two shows or our podcast and his radio show together and what would be the overlapping bend diagram between our audiences. And we decided to do a live show with a lot of clips in it and make it sort of something in between a live Slate Culture Gab Fest and kind of a class in movie music. And so we chose a lot of clips, which you'll be hearing the audio from, obviously, on the podcast. And me and Julia will jump in as needed and describe what's going on on screen, although I think a lot of the time the music does the work for itself. Yeah, so we're about to start playing the audio from that program. And we did break up the live show into three segments, kind of like a class of culture gab fest. So the first segment, we're talking about Moonrise Kingdom, the new Wes Anderson movie, about the film itself, about Wes Anderson, and about the score and the music within it.

For the second segment, we do something that's basically like movie music 101, wherein Dana and David Carlin explain to the moronic me and the slightly less moronic Steve how to think about movie music.

And finally, we did a Skype interview with Howard Shore,

who's just an incredibly accomplished composer,

who's done scores for everything from The Hobbit.

He was actually on Skype from New Zealand,

where he's working on the Hobbit score to crash,

to big, to everything in between.

So we'll start right in with our Moonrise Kingdom segment.

It's directed by Wes Anderson. The music is by a whole variety of people, some who were

hired for the job, such as Alexandra de Pla and Mark Mothersbaugh and other folks who aren't

around anymore about whose music lives, Benjamin Britain and Hank

Williams. And it was a movie I enjoyed because I enjoy Wes Anderson films. It was a movie that

Stephen didn't like because he doesn't like Wes Anderson-Trills.

Or is there more to it than that?

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