Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture "Jackie Brown". It was originally released on December 9, 1997. The film's score was composed by James Newton Howard. The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including soul. The soundtrack also includes dialogue from the motion picture and a lack of typical film score, similar to the other soundtracks of Tarantino films. Tarantino has said that in developing the script for "Jackie Brown", he decided on the majority of the songs during the writing stage.
East Side Story (1997 film) East Side Story (1997 film) East Side Story is a 1997 documentary directed by Dana Ranga. The film documents the Soviet Bloc musical genre, which first appeared under Stalin and spread to Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe. The film features interviews with actors, film historians, and audience members who reminisce on these unlikely films and their impact on Soviet Bloc life. The film first looks at Grigori Alexandrov, a director who made his career in the 1930s musicals. He directed the unlikely hit "Jolly Fellows" (1934), which had the backing of Maxim Gorky and the personal approval of Stalin. Alexandrov went on