{"id":1036407,"date":"2022-11-09T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1036407"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T13:30:47","slug":"what-to-watch-in-november-2022-the-best-music-videos-movies-and-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1036407","title":{"rendered":"What to Watch in November 2022: The Best Music Videos, Movies, and Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What to Watch in November 2022: The Best Music Videos, Movies, and Shows<\/h1>\n
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Including Majid Jordan\u2019s hilarious Ramy<\/em> cameo, Fiona Apple\u2019s powerful court-watching message, T\u00c1R<\/em>\u2019s quietly devastating score, and more.<\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Pitchfork<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Image by Callum Abbott. Cate Blanchett in T\u00e1r<\/em> (photo courtesy of Focus Features), Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara in Sirens<\/em> (photo courtesy of Rita Baghdadi), Wendell & Wild<\/em> (photo courtesy of Netflix), Ramy Youssef in Ramy<\/em> (photo by Marcus Price\/Hulu)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When you listen to as much music as we do, you notice it everywhere\u2014especially in movies and on TV, where the soundtrack is more important than ever. Our<\/em>monthly column<\/em>runs through the most memorable recent examples of where music and visual media meet.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cate Blanchett\u2019s T\u00c1R<\/em> peers into the shadows of symphonic sound<\/h2>\n
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For a film about a world-class conductor\u2014Cate Blanchett\u2019s Lydia T\u00e1r, whose steely demeanor can go from pianissimo<\/em> to fortissimo<\/em> in the blink of an eye\u2014Todd Field\u2019s masterful T\u00c1R<\/em> is a surprisingly quiet movie. That\u2019s especially remarkable given that star composer Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir is responsible for the score. Her work here is a far cry from Chernobyl<\/em>\u2019s sentimental theme, or Joker<\/em>\u2019s ominous drones and elegiac melodies; long stretches pass in which we hear nothing but dialogue and diegetic sound. But listen closely, and you\u2019ll realize that even the smallest sonic details\u2014like the rattling glove compartment in T\u00e1r\u2019s Porsche\u2014are charged with portent, flashing out like the bold strokes of Elgar\u2019s Cello Concerto, the hinge around which so much of the film turns. \u2013Philip Sherburne<\/p>\n

Watch:<\/strong> In theaters<\/p>\n

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Wendell & Wild<\/em>\u2019s ode to Afropunk<\/h2>\n
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Kat Elliot, the 13-year-old Black girl at the center of Henry Selick and Jordan Peele\u2019s new film, is a huge punk fan\u2014a notoriously white-dominated genre. Not only is this the first Black-led stop-motion film, it also pays homage to Afropunk\u2019s history and future. Having directed a music video for Fishbone in the mid-\u201980s, Selick was already familiar with Afropunk and drew inspiration for Kat\u2019s design from festival performers and attendees. Clad in combat boots, biker gloves, and a safety-pinned mini skirt, Kat carries her late father\u2019s boombox, right next to her head of green hair and face full of piercings. Blasting music from X-Ray Spex, the band that soundtracked her childhood car rides, she holds onto her punk-loving dad\u2019s memory. \u2013Heven Haile<\/p>\n

Watch:<\/strong> Netflix<\/p>\n

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Majid Jordan\u2019s Ramy<\/em> boy-band song is a low-key bop<\/h2>\n
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Ramy Youssef has always included careful music curation in his eponymous Hulu dramedy, which explores the intersection between Muslim and secular American life through a single family\u2019s story. In a recent episode, the father of Youssef\u2019s character pores over one of Barack Obama\u2019s regularly issued Spotify playlists, searching for hidden messages in the former president\u2019s song selections. But the standout musical moment from season three is Majid Jordan\u2019s (fully committed) performance as a fictional boy band called the Halal Brothers. Complete with headset microphones and on-the-nose choreography, the Toronto duo\u2019s paradoxical, pro-chastity slow jam will have you cooing for weeks about that sexiest of chaperones: the Devil. Stick around for the blockchain-referencing rap verse and Ying Yang Twins-worthy (but innocent!) whispers at the end. \u2013Marc Hogan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch:<\/strong> Hulu<\/p>\n

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Fiona Apple delivers an urgent message about court-watching<\/h2>\n
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For the past two years, Fiona Apple has volunteered as an avid court watcher in Prince George\u2019s County, Maryland, assisting people who were jailed pretrial to file civil rights suits. When the courts retaliated against volunteers, she helped fight for public access to their virtual proceedings. The artist doesn\u2019t have a public Twitter account of her own, but she recently posted an eight-part thread of video messages via civil rights attorney Scott Hechinger. In the clips, she exposes the corruption happening in America\u2019s criminal justice system and gives advice to anyone who might find themselves tangled in the bureaucratic web of the prison industrial complex. \u2013Heven Haile<\/p>\n

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A new Peacock documentary highlights Barney\u2019s fraught cultural impact<\/h2>\n
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If you grew up in the late 1990s or early 2000s, you\u2019re probably familiar with a ditty that goes, \u201cI love you, you love me.\u201d Though Barney & Friends<\/em> brought comfort to millions of children and launched the careers of beloved pop stars like Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, it also incited the anger of many adults. In October, Peacock released a two-part docuseries that chronicles how the singing purple dinosaur faced both love and unbridled hatred. Among its detractors was a Florida father who started the anti-Barney hate group \u201cJihad to Destroy Barney,\u201d simply because he couldn\u2019t stand to watch the anthropomorphic T. Rex on repeat in his home. \u2013Heven Haile<\/p>\n

Watch:<\/strong> Peacock<\/p>\n

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The \u201cWeird Al\u201d biopic is an appropriately goofy delight<\/h2>\n
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As Madison Bloom wrote in her<\/em>review<\/em>of the film<\/em>: The brilliance of the movie, which was co-written by Yankovic himself, is that it stays true to the recipe that has turned him into a goofball institution over the last four decades. It is a parody of a music biopic, in the spirit of his catalog, and flicks like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story<\/em> and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping<\/em>. But what\u2019s especially funny is that, structurally, it\u2019s not much more outlandish than most supposedly serious entries in the genre. There\u2019s the humble origin story, the wide-eyed ascent, the Promethean fall from grace, and inevitable redemption. The difference between Weird<\/em> and other recent over-the-top rock biopics like Elvis<\/em> or Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> is that this movie is in on the joke.<\/p>\n

Watch:<\/strong> Roku<\/p>\n

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The Meet Me in the Bathroom<\/em> documentary demystifies the indie rock scene of the early aughts<\/h2>\n
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As Marc Hogan<\/em>wrote<\/em>in his review of the film earlier this year<\/em>: The film is based on Lizzy Goodman\u2019s 2017 book chronicling the city\u2019s early-millennium rock boom (she also executive produced). The sprawling, 600-page oral history would be all but impossible to condense into a single feature, so directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern narrow their focus to mainly just the first few years of the 2000s, and only a handful of representative bands: the Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, TV on the Radio, the Rapture, and LCD Soundsystem, along with early scene linchpins the Moldy Peaches. And the film relies solely on archival footage and audio, without any talking-head shots to break the nostalgia. The result helps demystify an often-mythologized era in a way that could inspire some future assemblage of talented misfits to start their own movement. Another plus: The music, pretty uniformly, rips.<\/p>\n

Watch:<\/strong> In theaters \/ Showtime<\/p>\n

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Sirens<\/em> is an intimate, powerful documentary about Lebanon\u2019s first all-female metal band<\/h2>\n
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As Madison Bloom wrote in her<\/em>review<\/em>of the film:<\/em> When Lebanese guitarists Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara met\u2014in a riot, as they recall\u2014the first thing they did was talk about music. It was the summer of 2015, and the two women were protesting the towering heaps of garbage amassing in Beirut, along with the government\u2019s apathy toward the crisis. Their connection was instant, and within a year they formed the thrash metal band Slave to Sirens alongside vocalist Maya S. Khairallah, bassist Alma Doumani, and drummer Tatyana Boughaba. In her new documentary Sirens<\/em>, Moroccan-American filmmaker Rita Baghdadi explores the inner workings of the group, who are credited as the first all-female metal band to emerge from the Middle East. Despite its colossal themes\u2014censorship, sexuality, and young adulthood\u2014Baghdadi\u2019s film feels like intimate portraiture: Her tight framing reveals a group of friends that women across the globe can see themselves in.<\/p>\n

Watch:<\/strong> In theaters<\/p>\n

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Catch up on Los Espookys<\/em>\u2019 delightfully absurd second season<\/h2>\n
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As Eric Torres wrote in his<\/em>Listening Diary<\/em>with comedian and actor Ana Fabrega:<\/em> Whether she\u2019s dumping huge bottles of ketchup into a bowl to make her unique take on gazpacho, hollowing out carrots so she can put candies inside of them, or transcribing the audiobook of Don Quixote<\/em> to write her own version of the epic novel, Ana Fabrega\u2019s Los Espookys<\/em> oddball Tati just might be the most lovably chaotic character on TV right now. Alongside co-creator Julio Torres, the 31-year-old stars as a member of the series\u2019 namesake group of horror aficionados, who run a business staging DIY supernatural experiences. Her character is akin to Betty White\u2019s Rose Nylund from The Golden Girls<\/em>: the kind-hearted glue who holds the gang together, even if she\u2019s a little slow on the uptake. Following one of the most delightful debut seasons in recent memory, Los Espookys<\/em> recently returned for season two, and it remains as endearing and strange as ever.<\/p>\n

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