Home of the Brave (1986 film)

Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson. The films full onscreen title is Home of the Brave A Film by Laurie Anderson. The performances were filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, NJ, during the summer of 1985.

Musical selections included songs taken from Andersons 1984 album Mister Heartbreak the film was shot during a tour in support of the album and a couple of selections from her United States multimedia show of 1983, and several original pieces. Warner Bros. requested that Anderson create a singlefriendly release from the soundtrack, so she recorded a fastertempo, dancemix version of the song Smoke Rings. Ultimately, this recording was not released however, it can be heard during the AllNight Diner sequence of her short film What You Mean We?The first song performed by Anderson in the film is Excellent Birds, a collaboration with Peter Gabriel from Mister Heartbreak. Although Gabriel does not appear in this film and the song is not performed as a duet, Home of the Brave was released a few months after a second version with Anderson was released as This Is the Picture Excellent Birds on Gabriels album, So. ........

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