MUSIC SEEN – remembering some of our favorite confluences of music in movies, television, video games, anything. Pairing the moving image with musical notes is a time honored craft – about which, we will clumsily say is pretty awesome and pretty cool.
“Auto Rock” (Mogwai) in Miami Vice (2006)
Why this movie? Why this song in this movie? Why now? So many questions.
Michael Mann re-made his 1980’s TV show in 2006 with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, alongside an underrated supporting cast of pre-Moonlight Naomie Harris, pre-Leftovers Justin Theroux and an ahead-of-its-time visual aesthetic, both surrealistic and gritty. It’s not a perfect movie, by any estimation. But it does do some things very well. Take music for instance.