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Songcatcher is a 2000 drama film directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina.
Jul 27, 2001 · Songcatcher: Directed by Maggie Greenwald. With Janet McTeer, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin, Gregory Russell Cook. After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia.
"Songcatcher" tells the story of a woman who goes into the mountains of Appalachia in 1907, and finds the people singing British ballads that are almost unchanged since they arrived there 200 years earlier. It is also a feminist parable transplanted to earlier times, revealing too much consciousness of modern values.
Feb 19, 2014 · Songcatcher (2000) | Film4 Trailer. Doctor Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) goes to visit her sister and her struggling rural school after being denied a promotion at the University where she...
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia.
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life--a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads,...
A film about a woman whose drive to pursue the things she believes in leads her on an unexpected path to self-discovery. It is 1907, and musicologist Doctor Lily...
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Heard something you like at a party or on the radio? Identify songs playing around you with your phone, or hum, sing or whistle and let SongCatcher work its magic.
"Songcatcher" tells the story of an early 1900's musicologist who travels to the Smoky Mountains where she discovers indigenous mountain music and sets about to document it.
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize SONGCATCHER follows the unforgettable journey of a big-city musicologist who leaves it all...
