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So why did it take so long? ItвЂ™s not as if the song isnвЂ™t inherently cinematic: When RadioheadвЂ™s fourth studio album was officially released in October of 2000, PitchforkвЂ™s review observed, вЂњThe experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on IMAX.вЂќ ItвЂ™s hard to know exactly what that means, but it sure sounds like the kind of thing that music supervisors might have noticed and pursued.В On the other hand, if вЂњMotion Picture SoundtrackвЂќ is the Radiohead song that most explicitly invites cinematic imagery, itвЂ™s also the track that best epitomizes how the bandвЂ™s music inherently seems to resist it. The final moments of Mike CahillвЂ™s new film clarify and question the bandвЂ™s strange relationship with the movies more urgently than anything else has in years.В ItвЂ™s been 14 years since Radiohead released Kid A, the bandвЂ™s monumental follow-up to 1997вЂ™s OK Computer, and yet CahillвЂ™s film somehow marks the first time that magisterial album-closer вЂњMotion Picture SoundtrackвЂќ has ever actually appeared on a motion-picture soundtrack. This weekвЂ™s release of I Origins, which scores its climax to one of RadioheadвЂ™s most revered and unusual songs, might finally offer an answer. The truth of the matter is ultimately irrelevant, but the possible connection between Kore-edaвЂ™s film and RadioheadвЂ™s song nevertheless hints at the answer to a different set of questions altogether: Why isnвЂ™t the bandвЂ™s music used in movies very often, and why is it almost never used well? The general affability of the bandвЂ™s members is always subsumed by the mercurial genius of their frontman, and longtime Radiohead fans are keenly aware that youвЂ™d sooner get an original-sounding song out of Chris Martin than you would a straight answer out of Thom Yorke. Odds are that Yorke will never confirm the inspiration. At the end of one weekвЂ™s time, the subjects each star in a filmed re-creation of their chosen moment, disappearing into that perfect scene for all eternity. In the spartan and serene rooms of the filmвЂ™s heavenly office, the dead are instructed to select a single memory from their lives. In November of 2006, during a webcast recorded from EnglandвЂ™s Maida Vale studios, Radiohead lead singer and dominant persona Thom Yorke sat at a piano and plunked out a spartan ballad called вЂњVideotape,вЂќ which began with the lyrics, вЂњWhen IвЂ™m at the pearly gates, thisвЂ™ll be on my videotape.вЂќ The song would eventually find a home as the closing track on RadioheadвЂ™s 2007 album, In Rainbows, but neither in the seven years between its conception and its recording, nor in the seven years since, has Yorke confirmed that вЂњVideotapeвЂќ was inspired by After Life, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-edaвЂ™s 1998 humanistic masterpiece about a bureaucratic way station for the recently departed.

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Around that same time, the bandвЂ™s official website was reborn as a random series of white slides and black text, each of which contained its own uniquely cryptic message. A few months after the turn of the millennium, unrecognizable new Radiohead recordings were uploaded to Napster, the first songs from the bandвЂ™s then-unreleased fourth album crackling across the crude peer-to-peer service like scattered transmissions from a distant alien planet.

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