Ladd acted well into her 80s, often alongside her daughter, Laura Dern, and remained a beloved figure in Hollywood.

Starting with the 2018 double album “Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs,” an anthology released by Smithsonian Folkways spanning six decades of Dane’s music-making, Menendez also oversaw her ...

The 1970s transformed how audiences experienced films. Music stopped being just background noise and became a character in ...

Films like ‘Last Days,’ ‘Control,’ and ‘I'm Not There’ prove that movies about music need not paint by numbers.