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Home of the Brave is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Laurie Anderson released in USA on 27 april 1986 with Laurie Anderson

Home of the Brave (1986)

Home of the Brave
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Released in USA 27 april 1986
Length 1h30
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Documentary,    Musical
Rating78% 3.920913.920913.920913.920913.92091

Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson. The film's full on-screen title is Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson. The performances were filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, NJ, during the summer of 1985.

The film included appearances by guitarist Adrian Belew, author William S. Burroughs (who famously briefly dances a slow tango with Anderson during one song), keyboardist Joy Askew, and percussionist David Van Tieghem. Also, Barry Sonnenfeld, who was early in his movie-making career, receives an early film credit for operating second projection camera on this film. The film was released by Cinecom, but it was commercially unsuccessful.

A soundtrack album, which contained studio versions of some songs from the film, and live versions of others, was released concurrently with the film (see Home of the Brave (soundtrack)). A music video of the song "Language Is a Virus", using footage from the film but the studio recording of the song produced by Nile Rodgers, received wide airplay.

The film was briefly available on VHS and Laserdisc in the early 1990s from Warner Bros. Records. In 2007, Anderson announced on her official Web site that the film would be released to DVD as part of a video box set. The announcement was later removed.

Musical selections included songs taken from Anderson's 1984 album Mister Heartbreak (the film was shot during a tour in support of the album) and a couple of selections from her United States multimedia show of 1983, and several original pieces. Warner Bros. requested that Anderson create a single-friendly release from the soundtrack, so she recorded a faster-tempo, dance-mix version of the song "Smoke Rings". Ultimately, this recording was not released; however, it can be heard during the All-Night Diner sequence of her short film What You Mean We?

The first song performed by Anderson in the film is "Excellent Birds," a collaboration with Peter Gabriel from Mister Heartbreak. Although Gabriel does not appear in this film and the song is not performed as a duet, Home of the Brave was released a few months after a second version with Anderson was released as "This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)" on Gabriel's album, So.

Gabriel also provided background vocals on "Gravity's Angel" from Mister Heartbreak. Guitarist Adrian Belew sings the part more prominently in the film.

Synopsis

Home of the Brave est un film musical qui reprend des extraits de l'album d'Anderson Mister Heartbreak, de son spectacle multimedia United States Live, et des morceaux originaux. Une partie du film a été enregistrée lors de concerts.

Actors

Laurie Anderson

(Self - Keyboards, Vocals / Fenway Bergamot / The Voice of Reason)David Van Tieghem
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