New film for release called Land Ho Featuring In A Big Country Here are a few reviews. Film has been purchased by Sony and due for general release later on in the year. Had rave reviews at Sundance Film festival
Praise for the use of “In A Big Country” in LAND HO!
“The soundtrack, too, is a total winner with scenes punctuated by somewhat anachronistic – and yet totally right – electronic music including the film’s unofficial anthem, “In a Big Country”.”–The Film Experience
http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2014/1/22/sundance-land-ho-proves-aaron-katz-is-americas-next-great.html
“One of my favorite side effects of going to a film festival is getting a song from a movie lodged in my head. This year at Sundance, that honor goes to “In a Big Country” from the modestly charming Land Ho! Now, that chorus just makes me think of Paul Eenhoorn.”–Tim Grierson (film and music critic for Screen International, Deadspin, Paste and Playboy)
http://timgrierson.blogspot.com/2014/01/big-country-in-big-country.html
“They make excellent use of both original synth-pop music and Big Country’s “In a Big Country.” It’s a song you’ve heard a thousand times but that here seems newly profound: “Pull up your head off the floor / Come up screaming / Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted.” The camera never fails to consider the scenery, so that even Mitch’s bigness is unceasingly dwarfed by landscape. The camaraderie has a sense of cosmically topographical wonder. Lava fields, hot springs, mountains: They’ll be there long after these two are gone. That, of course, is Mitch’s point: Live now. And, mercifully, he makes it without anyone having to announce that they’re dying. This, to me, is quintessential Sundance: a tiny movie that comes from nowhere and makes your day, your week, and possibly your year.”–Wesley Morris, Grantland
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/sundance-diary-days-5-6-the-happiest-movie-youll-see-all-week-and-the-most-ridiculous/
“Traveling a stunning Icelandic landscape with an ‘80s synth-pop soundtrack (the use of “In a Big Country” is positively glorious), the two men are a hilarious odd couple, Mitch affectionately ribbing his more reserved traveling partner every step of the way.”–Madison Movie
http://madisonmovie.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/sundance-film-festival-the-trip-to-italy-and-land-ho-find-laughs-on-the-road/
And I couldn’t get “In a Big Country” by Big Country out of my head after it exploded out of the speakers in “Land Ho!”–Cyndy Drue, 102.9 WMGK, Philadelphia’s Classic Rock
http://www.wmgk.com/shows/cyndy-drue/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10635634
“Best Meta Music: “Land Ho!” in @LandHoMovie. (Also features “In a Big Country” by Big Country) #mysundanceawards2014″–Leah Giblin, Cinereach
https://twitter.com/ScreenandShout/status/427291161720397824
“Exhilarating and/or dorky, Aaron Katz’s use of “In a Big Country” in LAND HO! is my fave needle drop of #Sundance2014 #thecrossingonvinyl”–Joshua Rothkopf (Film Editor, Time Out New York; Flicks critic, Penthouse Magazine)
https://twitter.com/joshrothkopf/status/425778696461365249
More about LAND HO! at
http://landhomovie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/landhofilm
https://twitter.com/landhomovie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3283556/
