"Last Days of Left Eye" is available for pre-order on Amazon for $17.99 and ships September 9.
If you're still mad that Mo'nique's "Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School" preempted seeing our names in the credits, get yourself a copy and re-enjoy the movie too.
Click the image below to purchase from Amazon, and Frankie and Roscoe will get a scoop of food on you.
This brings the number of titles in the FatLab DVD library to three — Waking Dreams, Through A Glass, Darkly, and now Left Eye.
(Netflixers, click here to add "Left Eye" to your queue.)
Previously:
Audio interview with director Lauren Lazin by NPR's Farai Chideya
Documentary Recounts the Last Days of Left Eye –NPR News & Notes, May 18, 2007
iTunes version (segment 4 of podcast episode)
Singer at the End of Time: The Video Diary of Lisa Lopes –Virginia Heffernan, New York Times, May 19 2007
"Last Days of Left Eye" premiered tonight on Vh1. Mike and I watched it at our neighbors' apartment since we don't have cable.
About 9 minutes into the documentary when Lisa is talking about her grandfather playing at the Cotton Club, there is a 25 second cue of old-time swing music. Well, I wrote that and the full cue is 2:38. I also wrote it for trumpet, but was asked to switch it to sax to fit Lisa's story.
Since MTV owns this track and the guys at the club worked really hard to learn it, here is the full Cue LL42, as I intended it, for trumpet, clarinet, trombone, tenor sax, piano, bass, and drums.
Cue LL42 Cotton Club
Written & Produced by Brent
(c) and (p) 2006 MTV Networks
Published by MTV Songs (ASCAP)
(btw, there were no guys at the club. it's all synth.)
This week's issue of Newsweek has a write-up on "Last Days of Left Eye", including the Vh1 trailer. That's not our score in the trailer, so you'll just have to watch the show Saturday to hear it. Newsweek article found here:
Left Eye's Fatal Vision Allison Samuels, Newsweek - May 21, 2007 issue
Can't find these two online yet, but People Magazine (3 of 4 stars) and Entertainment Weekly (B+) are also running reviews. First airdate is this Saturday, May 19 at 9pm Eastern, with more showings over the weekend. (Showtimes)
Clipping from People Magazine
Clipping from Entertainment Weekly
After a year of film festival appearances from Harlem to Amsterdam, Austin, Atlanta, and Hollywood, "Left Eye" is finally coming to Vh1. (Official Site)
(Click above to see the full postcard.)
So since we don't have cable, someone set your DVR for Saturday, May 19 - 9pm EDT. (More showtimes)
In celebration, we're posting another track used in the film. I should mention that we didn't score this film to picture. We met weekly with the director, Lauren Lazin, and produced a custom library of music for editor David Beinstein to cut to. The final variations on 80+ tracks and themes totaled over 4 hours of music. We wrote each track to have a lot of variety to choose from, and often times they chose just a certain 15 seconds of a couple minute long track. So we are posting cue "LL39" (for lack of a better name) here in its entirety so that it does not go unheard.
Cue LL39
Written by Mike
Produced by Mike and Brent
Guitar by Jeff Widenhofer
(c) and (p) 2006 MTV Networks
Published by MTV Songs (ASCAP)
The 31st Atlanta Film Festival opened last Thursday, April 19, in Midtown Atlanta with a celebrity-packed screening of "Last Days of Left Eye".
Mike and I couldn't go to this screening, but a quick Google search brings back these reports:
Lisa Lopes was the rap voice of the 90's pop trio TLC. She died in a tragic car accident while on a retreat in Honduras. Oscar-nominated director Lauren Lazin has created a feature length film telling the story of Lisa's last days, using footage Lisa was shooting for her own documentary that was never finished.
Mike and I scored this documentary, which has been playing in European and US Film Festivals, and is expected to air on Vh1 this June.
This track is the main recurring "Theme from Last Days."
Written by Mike
Produced by Mike and Brent
Guitar by Jeff Widenhofer
(c) and (p) 2006 MTV Networks
Published by MTV Songs (ASCAP)
Theme from "Last Days of Left Eye" [2:08m]:
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