It’s Eternal Sunshine season. Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this week. Now, for the first time, Mac Miller’s deep cut “The Quest,” which samples the score Jon Brion crafted for the film, is widely available on streaming services.
“The Quest” was previously only shared as a bonus track on the 10th anniversary edition vinyl for Watching Movies With the Sound Off, released by the late musician’s estate in 2023. It features the instrumental “Phone Call” from the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
“The Quest” was previously only shared as a bonus track on the 10th anniversary edition vinyl for Watching Movies With the Sound Off, released by the late musician’s estate in 2023. It features the instrumental “Phone Call” from the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
- 3/22/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Guillermo del Toro, the acclaimed director of The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Hellboy, has recently expressed his admiration for Punch-Drunk Love, a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Adam Sandler. Del Toro tweeted that Punch-Drunk Love was his favorite PTA film and praised the score by Jon Brion, which he said he had been playing “in a loop” for weeks.
Punch-Drunk Love tells the story of Barry Egan, a socially awkward and emotionally unstable man who falls in love with Lena Leonard, a woman who accepts him for who he is. Barry also has to deal with a phone sex scam, a violent encounter with his sisters, and a frequent flyer miles scheme. The film is widely regarded as one of Sandler’s best performances and a departure from his usual comedic roles.
Punch Drunk Love Trailer
Del Toro is not the only filmmaker...
Punch-Drunk Love tells the story of Barry Egan, a socially awkward and emotionally unstable man who falls in love with Lena Leonard, a woman who accepts him for who he is. Barry also has to deal with a phone sex scam, a violent encounter with his sisters, and a frequent flyer miles scheme. The film is widely regarded as one of Sandler’s best performances and a departure from his usual comedic roles.
Punch Drunk Love Trailer
Del Toro is not the only filmmaker...
- 9/26/2023
- by CineArticles Editorial Team
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Jenny Lewis has readied a new album called Joy’All. The project is out today, June 9th, via her new label Blue Note/Capitol Records.
A lot’s changed since Lewis’ last album, 2019’s On the Line — namely, a global pandemic that shut the world down and inspired the songwriter to approach music differently. Some songs on Joy’All predate Covid, while others came out of a world-class songwriting group Lewis joined, led by none other than Beck Hansen.
“I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic… and then put them aside as the world shut down, and then from my home in Nashville in early 2021, I joined a week-long virtual songwriting workshop with a handful of amazing artists, hosted by Beck,” Lewis shared in a statement. “The challenge was to write one song every day for seven days, with guidelines from Beck. The guidelines would be...
A lot’s changed since Lewis’ last album, 2019’s On the Line — namely, a global pandemic that shut the world down and inspired the songwriter to approach music differently. Some songs on Joy’All predate Covid, while others came out of a world-class songwriting group Lewis joined, led by none other than Beck Hansen.
“I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic… and then put them aside as the world shut down, and then from my home in Nashville in early 2021, I joined a week-long virtual songwriting workshop with a handful of amazing artists, hosted by Beck,” Lewis shared in a statement. “The challenge was to write one song every day for seven days, with guidelines from Beck. The guidelines would be...
- 6/9/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Plot: A down-on-his-luck publicist gets his lucky break when he discovers a mute man recently released from a mental health facility looks just like a method actor who refuses to leave his trailer.
Review: Charlie Day’s directorial debut has had a long road to the big screen. Originally announced in 2018, Fool’s Paradise began as a project called El Tonto. After assembling an all-star cast, the pandemic forced the film into a hiatus which turned into rewrites by Day and, eventually, the filming of new scenes. The finished project boasts a massive cast of famous faces, including the late Ray Liotta, for a satirical look at Hollywood reminiscent of countless films from the 1960s and 1970s. With his sense of humor in the right place, Day makes a valiant effort in his debut behind the camera but falls short of delivering a consistent finished product.
When I started Fool’s Paradise,...
Review: Charlie Day’s directorial debut has had a long road to the big screen. Originally announced in 2018, Fool’s Paradise began as a project called El Tonto. After assembling an all-star cast, the pandemic forced the film into a hiatus which turned into rewrites by Day and, eventually, the filming of new scenes. The finished project boasts a massive cast of famous faces, including the late Ray Liotta, for a satirical look at Hollywood reminiscent of countless films from the 1960s and 1970s. With his sense of humor in the right place, Day makes a valiant effort in his debut behind the camera but falls short of delivering a consistent finished product.
When I started Fool’s Paradise,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
We were quick to report Jenny Lewis’ yacht-rock era back in 2021 when she released the lovely pedal steel-filled ditty “Puppy and a Truck.” But Lewis has moved on — to Nashville, to be exact.
The singer-songwriter dropped the new single “Psychos,” the opener to her upcoming album Joy’All, out June 9 via her new label Blue Note/Capitol Records. “There are no hard feelings,” she casually announces in the blissful chorus. “How I can help you?/It’s time I get away.”
Joy’All marks Lewis’ fifth solo album, following the excellent On the Line,...
The singer-songwriter dropped the new single “Psychos,” the opener to her upcoming album Joy’All, out June 9 via her new label Blue Note/Capitol Records. “There are no hard feelings,” she casually announces in the blissful chorus. “How I can help you?/It’s time I get away.”
Joy’All marks Lewis’ fifth solo album, following the excellent On the Line,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The harmonium in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 film "Punch-Drunk Love" enters the movie in a dramatic and unexplained fashion. It's just before dawn next to a wholesale warehouse somewhere in the San Fernando Valley. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) has stepped out into the warm darkness to drink his coffee. A red truck down the street is approaching at incredible speeds. Unexpectedly, the truck — perhaps striking something — is flipped into the air, and violently cartwheels down the street, spraying shards of metal and plastic all over the road. A second vehicle, a red taxi van, pulls up next to the carnage, right in front of Barry. The door opens and a faceless man places a harmonium on the sidewalk. The taxi speeds off. In less than a minute, everything is quiet again.
Barry takes the harmonium inside.
Barry is an angry, lonely man who will spend the span of "Punch-Drunk Love" awkwardly beginning a sweet,...
Barry takes the harmonium inside.
Barry is an angry, lonely man who will spend the span of "Punch-Drunk Love" awkwardly beginning a sweet,...
- 1/14/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Who knows what’s next for P.T. Anderson? Given the director’s work rate, it’s safe to expect his follow-up to “Licorice Pizza” won’t head into production for another couple of years at least. But when it happens, could it involve a reunion between him and composer Jon Brion? Jonny Greenwood has made the music for each of Anderson’s last five films, but before that Brion did work on three: Anderson’s 1996 debut “Hard Eight,” 1999’s “Magnolia,” and 2002’s “Punch Drunk Love.”
Read More: Paul Thomas Anderson Says Leonardo DiCaprio Was Offered ‘Boogie Nights’ But Turned It Down To Make ‘Titanic’
So, who’s to say Brion couldn’t work with the filmmaker again, even though the last time was two decades ago?
Continue reading Don’t Count Out A Reunion Between Paul Thomas Anderson & Composer Jon Brion at The Playlist.
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So, who’s to say Brion couldn’t work with the filmmaker again, even though the last time was two decades ago?
Continue reading Don’t Count Out A Reunion Between Paul Thomas Anderson & Composer Jon Brion at The Playlist.
- 10/13/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Hearing Mac Miller wrestle with dark thoughts from beyond the grave is a gut-punch. It’s also beautiful. That’s the duality of “Good News,” the first single from the rapper’s new posthumous album, Circles. Over a gently chugging groove sprinkled with pizzicato strings, Miller, who died in 2018 of an accidental overdose, unspools his internal monologue in an impossibly weary, just-woke-up-but-kind-of-wish-i-hadn’t drawl. Co-produced by Miller and Jon Brion (and featuring both Wendy Melvoin of Prince’s backing band, the Revolution, and veteran rock drummer Matt Chamberlain), the music...
- 1/17/2020
- by Christian Hoard
- Rollingstone.com
With his fifth album Swimming, Mac Miller has finally abandoned his frat-rap reputation for good. Sonically, it’s a continuation of 2016’s The Divine Feminine, with a silky, deep vibe redolent of the L.A. alternative soul scene. But while that album tried to create a romantic vibe and mostly ended up vague and unfocused — with the Anderson .Paak-augmented single “Dang!” a terrific exception — the emotional stakes seem higher on Swimming, which he assembled with help from onetime Kanye West collaborator Jon Brion. As Miller struggles with introspection after a...
- 8/7/2018
- by Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
The latest in a rather long and profitable string of animated properties getting the live action treatment, Christopher Robin opts to do things a little bit differently. Instead of leaning in to the child audience, a good portion of this family film looks to get in good with the parents. The flick may even challenge younger viewers with its meditative pace at first. Nostalgic parents though, they’ll probably dig on it. After all, Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger too) are staples of youth. Opening this weekend, Christopher Robin is the newest and most artful in Disney’s quest to showcase all of their classic properties. This movie looks at title character Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor), who spent his childhood playing with his toys and loving life. Living playthings like Winnie the Pooh (voice of Jim Cummings), Tigger (voice of Cummings as well), Eeyore (voice of Brad Garrett), Piglet (voice...
- 8/3/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Did we really need the studio behind the “Star Wars” relaunch to make a movie telling middle-aged men to stay close to their childhood toys? That’s the underlying message of “Christopher Robin,” a partially live-action sequel to the lovely “Winnie the Pooh” cartoons that’s a colossal disappointment on many levels.
It’s a slow, sluggish and whimsy-deficient movie that seems designed to entertain neither children nor adults, and the film’s script opens a Pandora’s Box of a plot twist (more on that in a moment) that that narrative then brushes off. And while many people admitted to weeping from the trailers, the final movie never packs the emotional punch that should be inherent to the material.
What we’re left with is a “Hook”-style mid-life crisis movie aimed at kids, designed to shame parents who spend too much time at the office and not enough with their families.
It’s a slow, sluggish and whimsy-deficient movie that seems designed to entertain neither children nor adults, and the film’s script opens a Pandora’s Box of a plot twist (more on that in a moment) that that narrative then brushes off. And while many people admitted to weeping from the trailers, the final movie never packs the emotional punch that should be inherent to the material.
What we’re left with is a “Hook”-style mid-life crisis movie aimed at kids, designed to shame parents who spend too much time at the office and not enough with their families.
- 8/3/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
There’s a scene in “Shadowlands,” the 1993 portrait of novelist C.S. Lewis, in which a young boy is excited to discover the giant wooden wardrobe that inspired “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” He throws open the door and reaches through the coats hoping to find Narnia … only to feel cold, hard wood at the back of the armoire. Disney wouldn’t dare undermine one of its franchises with such a scene, and yet, with “Christopher Robin,” it’s made a movie that feels similarly disenchanting — the latest and least of the studio’s live-action reboots of a widely adored cartoon.
Whereas “Winnie-the-Pooh” author A.A. Milne probably would have approved of the concept behind director Marc Forster’s well-meaning spinoff, it’s hard to imagine him being especially pleased with the result, in which an enchanted reunion between the now-adult title character (Ewan McGregor) and his stuffed bear helps...
Whereas “Winnie-the-Pooh” author A.A. Milne probably would have approved of the concept behind director Marc Forster’s well-meaning spinoff, it’s hard to imagine him being especially pleased with the result, in which an enchanted reunion between the now-adult title character (Ewan McGregor) and his stuffed bear helps...
- 8/3/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
A man on screen slowly opens his eyes as he wakes from sleep, adjusting his vision as he takes in the dull early morning light coming from the window. As he regards the dreary winter weather outside, a piece of music begins on the soundtrack. It’s a lilting, lazy waltz that oscillates between E-flat major and G minor, a bittersweet harmonic dichotomy that we’ll soon learn mirrors the man’s lovesick state of mind. As he sighs and reluctantly gets out of bed, a simple, sweetly-melancholic piano melody begins atop the chorus of reverse tape loops in the accompaniment. We know, because the music tells us, that this is man is not a bad man, but he is most definitely a sad man.Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) has recently suffered a heartbreaking loss: the end of his relationship with the eccentric and free-spirited Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet). After...
- 3/8/2018
- MUBI
If there’s one director who takes audio commentaries to a whole other level, it’s Adam McKay. The Academy Award-nominated director has a commentary that’s a musical scored by Jon Brion (Punch-Drunk Love), one set in the year 2031, and another with a series of arguments and feuds that end with Paul Rudd and Christina Applegate feeling […]
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- 3/5/2018
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Jon Brion had a definite advantage growing up since he belonged to a very musical family. His father was a band director at Yale, his mother was a singer, and his brother and sister both became a composer and a violinist respectively. Despite this however he had trouble in high school and eventually left to start playing music professionally when he was 17 years old. From that point on he joined one band after another and started out on his musical trek until he finally found the path towards becoming the composer he is today. He’s written the original scores
The Top Five Jon Brion Film Scores of His Career...
The Top Five Jon Brion Film Scores of His Career...
- 3/4/2018
- by Wake
- TVovermind.com
There are many absurdities to a six-month awards season, but the attempts at tagging Guillermo del Toro with plagiarism charges takes this year’s Harvey Weinstein Prize for most intellectually dishonest campaigning. Del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” has 13 Oscar nominations and plenty of momentum going into Oscar Sunday, which clearly places a target on the director’s back. Yet the reason these charges are so ridiculous is that, from Day One, the director’s ode to movies – She. Lives. Above. An. Old. Movie. Theater. – is something he has proudly worn on his sleeve.
Case in point: Many weeks before the “controversy” broke out, del Toro recorded an interview on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast in which he mentioned no fewer than twenty different directors and their influence on the film.
“Frank Borzage is another phenomenal filmmaker I do love and I think I started quoting him in ‘Cronos,...
Case in point: Many weeks before the “controversy” broke out, del Toro recorded an interview on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast in which he mentioned no fewer than twenty different directors and their influence on the film.
“Frank Borzage is another phenomenal filmmaker I do love and I think I started quoting him in ‘Cronos,...
- 2/27/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Mondo is celebrating the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” by bringing the iconic score to his character epic “Magnolia” to vinyl for the first time. The 3-lp set features all of the film’s songs by Aimee Mann and the complete score by Jon Brion. The vinyl goes on sale January 17.
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“Magnolia” was released in 1999 following the crossover success of “Boogie Nights.” The sprawling saga featured Anderson’s most star-studded ensemble, including Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Baker Hall, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and more. Cruise was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Mondo will release the original songs and score not only on vinyl for the first time, but also for the first time in a single release. The collection features new artwork from Joao Ruas and is pressed on 180 gram colored vinyl. The...
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“Magnolia” was released in 1999 following the crossover success of “Boogie Nights.” The sprawling saga featured Anderson’s most star-studded ensemble, including Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Baker Hall, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and more. Cruise was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Mondo will release the original songs and score not only on vinyl for the first time, but also for the first time in a single release. The collection features new artwork from Joao Ruas and is pressed on 180 gram colored vinyl. The...
- 1/11/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The frustration over no women nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes (and some fear, the Oscars) reached a tipping point when presenter Natalie Portman pointedly introduced the “all-male nominees.” In a year that saw incredible, female-directed films resonate with audiences and critics, it reads as a form of sexism. As the awards race narrows, this frustration is becoming focused on “Lady Bird,” a near universally praised film that has become a leading contender in a number of big categories, including Best Picture, Actress and Screenplay — but possibly, not Director.
Complicating matters is “Lady Bird” doesn’t easily fit into Hollywood or the Academy’s concept of great directing. Guillermo del Toro’s constantly moving and beautifully orchestrated camera in “The Shape of Water” creates a magical sensation that his characters are ready to burst into song at any moment. Steven Spielberg takes potential dry and expository material about...
Complicating matters is “Lady Bird” doesn’t easily fit into Hollywood or the Academy’s concept of great directing. Guillermo del Toro’s constantly moving and beautifully orchestrated camera in “The Shape of Water” creates a magical sensation that his characters are ready to burst into song at any moment. Steven Spielberg takes potential dry and expository material about...
- 1/8/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
141 original scores just made the Oscar shortlist, meaning that we have no real idea which soundtracks will go on to be nominated for the actual Academy Award — “Phantom Thread” composer Jonny Greenwood looks poised to finally be recognized for his work, but might “Baywatch” be a spoiler? We simply don’t know, dear reader. We simply don’t know.
As you await the nominations — which will be announced on Tuesday, January 23 — treat yourself to this selection of tracks from the shortlist.
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Here are the 141 scores vying for an Oscar nod:
“Alien: Covenant,” Jed Kurzel, composer
“All I See Is You,” Marc Streitenfeld, composer
“All the Money in the World,” Daniel Pemberton, composer
“Annabelle: Creation,” Benjamin Wallfisch, composer
“Band Aid,” Lucius, composer
“Battle of the Sexes,...
As you await the nominations — which will be announced on Tuesday, January 23 — treat yourself to this selection of tracks from the shortlist.
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Original Score
Read More:Oscars 2018: Best Original Score Shortlist Includes ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘All the Money in the World,’ and More
Here are the 141 scores vying for an Oscar nod:
“Alien: Covenant,” Jed Kurzel, composer
“All I See Is You,” Marc Streitenfeld, composer
“All the Money in the World,” Daniel Pemberton, composer
“Annabelle: Creation,” Benjamin Wallfisch, composer
“Band Aid,” Lucius, composer
“Battle of the Sexes,...
- 12/23/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Approaching renowned composer Jon Brion for Lady Bird, her directorial debut, Greta Gerwig didn’t get into the specifics of his many memorable scores, or which of his works was particularly compelling to her. For Brion, this was a breath of fresh air. Having composed for the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, and David O. Russell, Brion is familiar with the pressure to create within the mold of his past works, preferring instead to create anew, without any…...
- 12/22/2017
- Deadline
Paul Thomas Anderson’s characters are all defective in some way — not flawed so much as broken and incomplete. In an unpredictable filmography that spans from the waining days of the mid-’90s indie boom to the tenuous post-celluloid landscape of the modern age — a scattershot collection of stories that hops across the last 100 years as though its unstuck in time, resolving into a strange and feral people’s history of America in the 20th century — a fundamental sense of inherent vice might be the most consistent through-line. That feels especially true in the aftermath of “Phantom Thread,” which finds Anderson ditching his hometown of Los Angeles for London, but still retaining (or even doubling down on) his sincere affection for obsessive people with holes in their hearts.
Common wisdom suggests that Anderson’s career has been split down the middle, with 2002’s “Punch-Drunk Love” functioning as a gentle transition...
Common wisdom suggests that Anderson’s career has been split down the middle, with 2002’s “Punch-Drunk Love” functioning as a gentle transition...
- 12/21/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Music has always been an integral part of the fabric in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. From his early work, that largely featured the sounds of savant/producer Jon Brion, to his current run of movies, that have been powered by outré leanings of Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood, Anderson has been blessed to see his film’s given extra dimension with these compositions. Lately, however, the music has been given an extra chance to shine.
Continue reading Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’ To Screen With Live Orchestra At Rotterdam Film Festival at The Playlist.
Continue reading Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’ To Screen With Live Orchestra At Rotterdam Film Festival at The Playlist.
- 12/21/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
If you don’t know the name Vicky Krieps, then start getting ready to never forget it. The 34-year-old Luxembourgian actress gives one of the year’s breakthrough performances in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” in which she stars opposite Daniel Day-Lewis and Lesley Manville. Krieps joined her director and co-stars after the film’s first New York City screening on November 26, where she revealed quite the shocking audition story.
Krieps was given a script by her manager which featured a short monologue written by Anderson, although the actress admits she didn’t read the email from her manager properly and so she missed the fact that she would be sending in an audition tape to the director of “Boogie Nights,” “The Master,” and “There Will Be Blood.” She spent four days procrastinating the audition before finally making a tape of herself and sending it in.
Anderson ended up...
Krieps was given a script by her manager which featured a short monologue written by Anderson, although the actress admits she didn’t read the email from her manager properly and so she missed the fact that she would be sending in an audition tape to the director of “Boogie Nights,” “The Master,” and “There Will Be Blood.” She spent four days procrastinating the audition before finally making a tape of herself and sending it in.
Anderson ended up...
- 11/27/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” is slowly rolling out to press and guild members ahead of its Christmas release. Following the drama’s first screening in Los Angeles on November 24, “Phantom Thread” arrived in New York City on Sunday, November 26, complete with a rare appearance from star Daniel Day-Lewis. The three-time Oscar winner joined Anderson and co-stars Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville to discuss his new movie, which his representative says marks his final film performance before retirement.
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To the surprise of no one, Day-Lewis revealed he extensively researched numerous fashion designers to get into the character of Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned dressmaker who designs gowns for high society women. Original rumors suggested Woodcock was based on designer Charles James, though the actor refuted the notion. “As fascinating as his life was,...
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To the surprise of no one, Day-Lewis revealed he extensively researched numerous fashion designers to get into the character of Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned dressmaker who designs gowns for high society women. Original rumors suggested Woodcock was based on designer Charles James, though the actor refuted the notion. “As fascinating as his life was,...
- 11/27/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The new Paul Thomas Anderson movie “Phantom Thread” is under review embargo, of course, but Focus Features started screening the late arrival for various guild and Academy voters and press, who at the first screening Friday gave a hearty round of applause to the ‘50s London romance set in the high-couture fashion world.
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PTA wrote the script for Daniel Day-Lewis, hoping it would pass muster with the finicky actor who agreed to star as fussy women’s designer Reynolds Woodcock, which could be the retiring actor’s last role. Anderson relied on Day-Lewis more than he did in “There Will Be Blood” (which won Ddl his second of three Oscars), because “I don’t speak English, I speak American,” Anderson said at the post-screening Q&A at the Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles.
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PTA wrote the script for Daniel Day-Lewis, hoping it would pass muster with the finicky actor who agreed to star as fussy women’s designer Reynolds Woodcock, which could be the retiring actor’s last role. Anderson relied on Day-Lewis more than he did in “There Will Be Blood” (which won Ddl his second of three Oscars), because “I don’t speak English, I speak American,” Anderson said at the post-screening Q&A at the Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles.
- 11/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
In his seven weeks of shooting “The Shape of Water,” the film’s male lead, Doug Jones, could not grasp a doorknob, send a text message, breathe through his mouth, or go to the bathroom while in costume. His call time to the Toronto set was a “mercifully short” three hours earlier than co-stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, and Octavia Spencer.
Each morning, four people armed with K-y Jelly shoehorned him into a latex, foam, and rubber bodysuit, built from a cast of his six-foot-three, 140-pound frame. Then came webbed-fingered gloves (glued on), following by a neck and fiberglass helmet, which featured built-in buzzing, whirring mechanics to puppeteer his gills off camera. Once dressed, barely able to see or hear, Jones was required at various times to hang from a hip harness, stand on a smoke-bathed teeter-totter to simulate bobbing in water, and employ scuba diving techniques while acting in a flooded,...
Each morning, four people armed with K-y Jelly shoehorned him into a latex, foam, and rubber bodysuit, built from a cast of his six-foot-three, 140-pound frame. Then came webbed-fingered gloves (glued on), following by a neck and fiberglass helmet, which featured built-in buzzing, whirring mechanics to puppeteer his gills off camera. Once dressed, barely able to see or hear, Jones was required at various times to hang from a hip harness, stand on a smoke-bathed teeter-totter to simulate bobbing in water, and employ scuba diving techniques while acting in a flooded,...
- 11/24/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
The romances of Guillermo del Toro and Paul Thomas Anderson have finally collided, somewhat. Del Toro revealed on Twitter that he wrote and designed “The Shape of Water” with Jon Brion’s original score for Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love” in mind. “The Shape of Water” script was being developed as early as 2012, and it was Brion’s percussion-heavy work on Anderson’s romance that helped guide del Toro’s emotions. Del Toro said he even temped the film with the “Punch-Drunk Love” score before Alexandre Desplat was brought on to compose the music.
Life is strange and so is the human brain… I remembered, that, at its early genesis (2012-14, The Shape of Water was written and designed with the score of Punch Drunk Love playing (later Georges Delerue and Rota, but at one point we even temped with Pdl’s score…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) November 23, 2017
To be clear:...
Life is strange and so is the human brain… I remembered, that, at its early genesis (2012-14, The Shape of Water was written and designed with the score of Punch Drunk Love playing (later Georges Delerue and Rota, but at one point we even temped with Pdl’s score…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) November 23, 2017
To be clear:...
- 11/24/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Guillermo del Toro is currently riding high on the critical raves for “The Shape of Water,” which could earn the Mexican filmmaker his first Oscar nomination for Best Director. The fantasy romance will be the last bit of filmmaking audiences see from del Toro for quite a bit, as he has announced plans to take a year-long sabbatical from the director’s chair. So how does del Toro plan to keep busy? In addition to producing some projects, the director will sit down for two-week interviews with Michael Mann and George Miller.
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Del Toro had previously teased he would be working in some capacity on a project involving Mann, and now it has been confirmed that part of the project will involve spending two weeks with Mann sometime between now and next December. Del...
Read More:Guillermo del Toro is Taking a Break From Directing: ‘I Need to Take Pause’
Del Toro had previously teased he would be working in some capacity on a project involving Mann, and now it has been confirmed that part of the project will involve spending two weeks with Mann sometime between now and next December. Del...
- 11/24/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Listen to the 'Joyful and Mournful, Romantic and Heartbroken' Title Track to 'Lady Bird' (Exclusive)
Nearly everything about Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, Lady Bird, is perfect, from the script (which she also wrote) to the casting (including Saoirse Ronan as the titular Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson and Laurie Metcalf as her lovingly exasperated mother) to the costumes, cinematography and music.
While Gerwig makes excellent use of Dave Matthews Band in the film, she also enlisted composer Jon Brion (responsible for such varied work as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Step Brothers) to craft the score, which she calls "joyful and mournful, romantic and heartbroken." Below, listen to the Lady Bird—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack:
"In Jon I found a musical soulmate," Gerwig writes in the album's liner notes. "His work is emotional and witty and old-fashioned and forward thinking all at once…I am so grateful for him and the music he made, and it is what allowed Lady Bird to soar."
Et spoke with Brion...
While Gerwig makes excellent use of Dave Matthews Band in the film, she also enlisted composer Jon Brion (responsible for such varied work as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Step Brothers) to craft the score, which she calls "joyful and mournful, romantic and heartbroken." Below, listen to the Lady Bird—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack:
"In Jon I found a musical soulmate," Gerwig writes in the album's liner notes. "His work is emotional and witty and old-fashioned and forward thinking all at once…I am so grateful for him and the music he made, and it is what allowed Lady Bird to soar."
Et spoke with Brion...
- 11/17/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Currently sitting with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, and enjoying one of the most successful arthouse release of the year, “Lady Bird” is flying high. The directorial debut by Greta Gerwig features no shortage of talent on all sides of the camera, including a cast led by Saorise Ronan, and featuring Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, and Timothée Chalamet.
Continue reading Stream Jon Brion’s “Lady Bird Kiss” From ‘Lady Bird’ Soundtrack [Exclusive] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Stream Jon Brion’s “Lady Bird Kiss” From ‘Lady Bird’ Soundtrack [Exclusive] at The Playlist.
- 11/15/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Just when you think there's nothing original or exciting left to mine from a coming-of-age story, along comes the totally irresistible Lady Bird – a reminder that no genre is played out when there's a new artist around to see it with fresh eyes. Screenwriter Greta Gerwig, in a spectacular solo directing debut (she co-directed Nights and Weekends with Joe Swanberg in 2008), has carved a brilliantly hilarious and heartfelt script out of her own teen life. Not a punch is pulled, and sentiment takes a holiday. All that's left is blunt honesty.
- 10/31/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Relating the experiences of your teenage years is both a universal and deeply personal effort. Cinema is littered with this, but it’s rare that you really connect with the filmmaker telling the tale in such a way. This week, that happens to be the case when Lady Bird opens. The baby of multi hyphenate Greta Gerwig, it’s one of the year’s very best films. Essentially, this is a coming of age classic in the making. You don’t need to be a teenage girl, past or present, to appreciate what Gerwig has done here. Not only is she a talented actress and writer, she’s now showcasing just how strong a director she is. You’ll be blown away. Set in Northern California during the early 2000’s, the movie follows high school senior Christine ‘Lady Bird’ McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) as she fights with her strong willed mother...
- 10/30/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
If you’re looking for a crash course in what makes Paul Thomas Anderson an auteur filmmaker, look no place else but his music videos. Anderson has directed 15 music videos throughout the course of his career so far, and each one is a succinct lesson in all of his best trademarks, from those technically-dazzling tracking shots to the intimate textures of his extreme closeups.
Anderson’s music video career has always intertwined with his film career. His first video arrived in 1997 with Michael Penn’s “Try,” just a year after his breakout directorial debut “Hard Eight.” Over the next 20 years, the filmmaker would go on to collaborate with Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsom, and Radiohead multiple times. Most recently, Anderson has joined forces with the band Haim to direct several music videos for tracks off their second album, “Something to Tell You.” Three of these videos were edited into a 16-minute short film called “Valentine.
Anderson’s music video career has always intertwined with his film career. His first video arrived in 1997 with Michael Penn’s “Try,” just a year after his breakout directorial debut “Hard Eight.” Over the next 20 years, the filmmaker would go on to collaborate with Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsom, and Radiohead multiple times. Most recently, Anderson has joined forces with the band Haim to direct several music videos for tracks off their second album, “Something to Tell You.” Three of these videos were edited into a 16-minute short film called “Valentine.
- 10/4/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Lady Bird is one of the year’s great joys. Greta Gerwig’s debut as a solo writer-director is so wise, so funny, and so remarkably assured that it seems to have flown in out of nowhere. Where did this nearly perfect coming-of-age comedy and emotionally affecting study of youth, social status, and financial malaise come from? The answer has been hiding in plain sight. As an actress, Gerwig has shown inimitable intelligence in films such as Frances Ha and 20th Century Women. She has now moved behind the camera for a 2002-set study of a Sacramento teen’s final year of high school, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, and Timothée Chalamet, with music by Jon Brion.
Even after mentioning the involvement of such an ensemble of talent, I’m not sure anyone could have anticipated just how strong a film Lady Bird would be, or...
Even after mentioning the involvement of such an ensemble of talent, I’m not sure anyone could have anticipated just how strong a film Lady Bird would be, or...
- 9/10/2017
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
In “Lady Bird,” an angst-riddled teen copes with her restrictive Catholic high school, bickers with her doting parents, endures her first heartbreak, and dreams of escaping to a far-off place. There’s nothing fresh about that premise, but writer-director Greta Gerwig’s semi-biographical riff on her Sacramento upbringing elevates it to a new wavelength beaming with wit and insight. Anchored by Saoirse Ronan in a spunky lead role that registers as her very best, the movie confirms that Gerwig’s plucky screen presence translates into a richly confident filmmaking voice.
“Lady Bird” is both snarky and sincere — a touching, markedly feminine ode to growing up that never takes its familiarity for granted. Gerwig earns the ability to make this rite-of-passage saga her own.
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“The only thing exciting about 2002 is that it’s a palindrome,” moans Christine McPherson,...
“Lady Bird” is both snarky and sincere — a touching, markedly feminine ode to growing up that never takes its familiarity for granted. Gerwig earns the ability to make this rite-of-passage saga her own.
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“The only thing exciting about 2002 is that it’s a palindrome,” moans Christine McPherson,...
- 9/2/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
Christopher Guest has had an exceptionally strong ’00s with A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration, and it remains to be seen how his upcoming Mascots will be received, but his arguable peak is still the gloriously funny mockumentary Best in Show. Guest’s other films have lovingly skewered egotistical oddballs and the insanity of subjective or objective criticism, so Best in Show is...
Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
Christopher Guest has had an exceptionally strong ’00s with A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration, and it remains to be seen how his upcoming Mascots will be received, but his arguable peak is still the gloriously funny mockumentary Best in Show. Guest’s other films have lovingly skewered egotistical oddballs and the insanity of subjective or objective criticism, so Best in Show is...
- 7/7/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Michel Gondry has been spending most of his time since his last feature “Microbe & Gasoline” directing commercials for the likes of Chobani and Amazon, but he’s finally returned to filmmaking thanks to Apple. The company’s French and UK channels have debuted Gondry’s new film, the 11-minute short “Détour,” and it finds the French master taking a page from Sean Baker and directing using nothing but his iPhone.
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“Détour” is a typical Gondry tale of whimsy and imagination. The story is told from the perspective of a small tricycle that falls off the back of a car. In order to reunite with its owners, the tricycle embarks on an adventure across the countryside, where it meets various amusing characters that help guide its return home. Watch the short in its entirety below.
Accompanying...
Read More: Michel Gondry and Jon Brion Team Up For Eternally Sunny Yogurt Ad — Watch
“Détour” is a typical Gondry tale of whimsy and imagination. The story is told from the perspective of a small tricycle that falls off the back of a car. In order to reunite with its owners, the tricycle embarks on an adventure across the countryside, where it meets various amusing characters that help guide its return home. Watch the short in its entirety below.
Accompanying...
- 6/30/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” director Michel Gondry and composer Jon Brion have teamed up again for a whimsical ad that is all sunshine and no feverish heartache.
The commercial is from Greek yogurt company Chobani, and it’s called “Fruit Symphony.” Short and uplifting, it shows musicians playing fruit instruments as a choir of Chobani employees sing Brion’s arrangement of Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now.”
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The ad opens with a coconut sliced in half acting as a high-hat cymbal, and goes on to show some sort of peach synthesizer and a banana piano. (Bananiano?) As a man rubbing a mango smiles at a drummer tapping an apple, Chobani’s message reads: “Food brings us together.”
Perhaps best known for “Eternal Sunshine,” Gondry also directed “The Science of Sleep” and, more recently, a...
The commercial is from Greek yogurt company Chobani, and it’s called “Fruit Symphony.” Short and uplifting, it shows musicians playing fruit instruments as a choir of Chobani employees sing Brion’s arrangement of Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now.”
Read More: Michel Gondry Literally Delivers Dreams in Charming FedEx Commercial — Watch
The ad opens with a coconut sliced in half acting as a high-hat cymbal, and goes on to show some sort of peach synthesizer and a banana piano. (Bananiano?) As a man rubbing a mango smiles at a drummer tapping an apple, Chobani’s message reads: “Food brings us together.”
Perhaps best known for “Eternal Sunshine,” Gondry also directed “The Science of Sleep” and, more recently, a...
- 4/10/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Daniel Clowes’ Wilson is now playing in theaters across the country and hopefully, those who’ve had a chance to see it still have some questions about how the filmmakers and cast captured the tone of Clowes’ graphic novel so well. (It didn’t hurt that Clowes adapted it into a movie himself.)
It is director Craig Johnson’s third film, following 2009’s True Adolescents and 2014’s The Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader, which won a screenplay at Sundance that year.
In the movie, Woody Harrelson plays the title character, a cantankerous and unfiltered loner who tries hard to be social but ends up putting those he interacts with off. When he tries to reconnect with his ex-wife Pippy (Laura Dern), he finds out that he had a baby daughter she gave up for adoption. The two of them go look for their now teen daughter Claire...
It is director Craig Johnson’s third film, following 2009’s True Adolescents and 2014’s The Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader, which won a screenplay at Sundance that year.
In the movie, Woody Harrelson plays the title character, a cantankerous and unfiltered loner who tries hard to be social but ends up putting those he interacts with off. When he tries to reconnect with his ex-wife Pippy (Laura Dern), he finds out that he had a baby daughter she gave up for adoption. The two of them go look for their now teen daughter Claire...
- 3/28/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
In case you haven’t heard, and if you haven’t give yourself a somehow-i-blocked-out-the-noise award, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival is kicking off today. Here are 30 must-see films to keep on your radar, and you can follow all our coverage, reviews, features, etc., right here.
Read More: The 30 Most Exciting Films In The Sundance 2017 Lineup
However, there are plenty of film scores to keep your ears perked up for.
Continue reading Sundance Film Scores: Jon Brion, Mica Levi, Nick Cave, Nick Diamond From Unicorns & More at The Playlist.
Read More: The 30 Most Exciting Films In The Sundance 2017 Lineup
However, there are plenty of film scores to keep your ears perked up for.
Continue reading Sundance Film Scores: Jon Brion, Mica Levi, Nick Cave, Nick Diamond From Unicorns & More at The Playlist.
- 1/20/2017
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Stars: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, Mary Lynn Rajskub | Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
If you’re Paul Thomas Anderson, how do you follow up a succession of sprawling epics like Boogie Nights and Magnolia? Why, you make a small-scale rom-com, of course. Except this is PTA, so it’s not that simple. On the surface, Punch-Drunk Love looks like the runt of Anderson’s litter – perhaps not helped, in retrospect, by Adam Sandler’s steady decline since 2002 – but looking again, it has a good deal to offer.
Sandler plays Barry, a blue pill guy in a bad blue suit. He owns a warehouse company that sells … well, who knows? Plungers, certainly. Barry is socially awkward and thoroughly single, and he’s under the thumb of his seven bullying sisters. One day his one vaguely agreeable sibling, Elizabeth (Mary Lynn Rajskub), introduces Barry to...
If you’re Paul Thomas Anderson, how do you follow up a succession of sprawling epics like Boogie Nights and Magnolia? Why, you make a small-scale rom-com, of course. Except this is PTA, so it’s not that simple. On the surface, Punch-Drunk Love looks like the runt of Anderson’s litter – perhaps not helped, in retrospect, by Adam Sandler’s steady decline since 2002 – but looking again, it has a good deal to offer.
Sandler plays Barry, a blue pill guy in a bad blue suit. He owns a warehouse company that sells … well, who knows? Plungers, certainly. Barry is socially awkward and thoroughly single, and he’s under the thumb of his seven bullying sisters. One day his one vaguely agreeable sibling, Elizabeth (Mary Lynn Rajskub), introduces Barry to...
- 1/19/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
March’s slate of beloved films that are joining The Criterion Collection has something for everyone. Leading the lineup is Andrew Haigh’s drama “45 Years” starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. The Oscar-nominated film is a tale about an English couple who, on the eve of their anniversary, receive devastating news that changes the course of their lives.
The Blu-ray and DVD will feature audio commentary featuring Haigh and producer Tristan Goligher, new interviews with the cast and filmmakers, as well as a new interview with David Constantine, author of the short story on which the film is based.
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Criterion will also be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” with a restored 4K digital transfer, which includes uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. The film chronicles a...
The Blu-ray and DVD will feature audio commentary featuring Haigh and producer Tristan Goligher, new interviews with the cast and filmmakers, as well as a new interview with David Constantine, author of the short story on which the film is based.
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Criterion will also be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” with a restored 4K digital transfer, which includes uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. The film chronicles a...
- 12/15/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question:
Last Friday saw the release of Garth Davis’ “Lion,” the musical score for which is the gorgeous result of a collaboration between two giants of the neo-classical movement, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka. It’s just the latest indication that we’re living in a fascinating, vibrant time for movie music, and December boasts a number of films that will only add more fuel to that fire. With that in mind, we asked our panel of critics to name their favorite film score of the 21st Century.
Tasha Robinson (@TashaRobinson), The Verge
There are some really striking contenders out there, topped by Susumu Hirasawa’s manic,...
This week’s question:
Last Friday saw the release of Garth Davis’ “Lion,” the musical score for which is the gorgeous result of a collaboration between two giants of the neo-classical movement, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka. It’s just the latest indication that we’re living in a fascinating, vibrant time for movie music, and December boasts a number of films that will only add more fuel to that fire. With that in mind, we asked our panel of critics to name their favorite film score of the 21st Century.
Tasha Robinson (@TashaRobinson), The Verge
There are some really striking contenders out there, topped by Susumu Hirasawa’s manic,...
- 11/28/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It's blissfully romantic, undeniably eccentric, the easy go-to-answer for the best Adam Sandler movie ever made, a modernist gem, a valentine to old musicals and the only film to feature both Philip Seymour Hoffman and an abandoned harmonium in key supporting roles. Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love remains an outlier in the filmmaker's career and one of the more oddball movies to come out of a studio in the past two decades – an ode to true love involving phone sex scams, pudding, wrecked public restrooms and proof that even...
- 11/21/2016
- Rollingstone.com
On Tuesday, January 10, three days before voting for Oscar nominations comes to a close, the Million Dollar Theater in downtown Los Angeles will play home to a special live orchestra screening of Barry Jenkins’ lauded indie “Moonlight.” The Wordless Music Orchestra, the group behind this past weekend’s live orchestra screenings of “Tree of Life” at Bam, is also announcing today that they will premiere a live orchestra screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on April 8.
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The “Moonlight” screening will involve a 30-piece orchestra that will be joined by the film’s composer Nicholas Britell, Tim Fain (original violin soloist from the soundtrack recording), soprano Mellissa Hughes (who sang the Mozart aria in the film) and conductor Ryan McAdams (who led the “Tree of Life” live orchestra). Filmmaker...
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The “Moonlight” screening will involve a 30-piece orchestra that will be joined by the film’s composer Nicholas Britell, Tim Fain (original violin soloist from the soundtrack recording), soprano Mellissa Hughes (who sang the Mozart aria in the film) and conductor Ryan McAdams (who led the “Tree of Life” live orchestra). Filmmaker...
- 11/21/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Later tonight, close to 2,000 moviegoers will fill Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn to watch Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life,” set to a live score played by a 110-piece orchestra and choir. It’s the seventh live score production by the New York-based Wordless Music Orchestra, which has previously staged live music productions of other modern day classics like “There Will Be Blood” and “Under the Skin.”
For the founder of Wordless Music, Ronen Givony, the need to create a heightened sense of occasion with a live event is vital in the age of Netflix and Spotify.
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“I think it’s fair to say that whether it’s an orchestra concert or a rock concert or a movie, it seems like especially in New York, the simple act of going out and seeing...
For the founder of Wordless Music, Ronen Givony, the need to create a heightened sense of occasion with a live event is vital in the age of Netflix and Spotify.
Read More: Howard Shore, Composer for Cronenberg, ‘Spotlight’ and Scorsese, on the Creation of Diverse Scores
“I think it’s fair to say that whether it’s an orchestra concert or a rock concert or a movie, it seems like especially in New York, the simple act of going out and seeing...
- 11/18/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Editor’s Note: This article is presented in partnership with FilmStruck. Developed and managed by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in collaboration with the Criterion Collection, FilmStruck features the largest streaming library of contemporary and classic arthouse, indie, foreign and cult films as well as extensive bonus content, filmmaker interviews and rare footage. Learn more here.
These are dark times. Dark times for those of you dismayed by recent developments in American politics, and dark times for those of you who aren’t, but still have to reckon with the fact that the sun is going down while you’re still at work (daylight savings is a bi-partisan effort to depress the hell out of you every fall). But movies were meant to be watched in the dark, which makes us all the more grateful that FilmStruck is finally here, offering subscribers a thousand different ways to light up their lives.
These are dark times. Dark times for those of you dismayed by recent developments in American politics, and dark times for those of you who aren’t, but still have to reckon with the fact that the sun is going down while you’re still at work (daylight savings is a bi-partisan effort to depress the hell out of you every fall). But movies were meant to be watched in the dark, which makes us all the more grateful that FilmStruck is finally here, offering subscribers a thousand different ways to light up their lives.
- 11/18/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
While we celebrate Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch Drunk Love” coming to The Criterion Collection today, more amazing news arrives in the form of February new additions, which just so happens to include a box set that is bound to cause some major swooning from Richard Linklater fans.
The director’s seminal “Before” Trilogy, which includes “Before Sunrise” (1995), “Before Sunset” (2004) and “Before Midnight” (2013), will finally join the Criterion library, which cinephiles expected would happen sooner than later after “Boyhood” joined the collection in October. Rumors started swirling last summer about a potential box set, and now Criterion has confirmed the release.
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The “Before” Trilogy Criterion set includes restored 2K digital transfers of the first two installments and a 2K digital master of “Before Midnight,” all approved by director Richard Linklater. Behind-the-scenes content includes “Dream is Destiny,...
The director’s seminal “Before” Trilogy, which includes “Before Sunrise” (1995), “Before Sunset” (2004) and “Before Midnight” (2013), will finally join the Criterion library, which cinephiles expected would happen sooner than later after “Boyhood” joined the collection in October. Rumors started swirling last summer about a potential box set, and now Criterion has confirmed the release.
Read More: ‘Before’ Trilogy: Beautiful Video Shows Parallel Emotion From All Three of Linklater’s Films
The “Before” Trilogy Criterion set includes restored 2K digital transfers of the first two installments and a 2K digital master of “Before Midnight,” all approved by director Richard Linklater. Behind-the-scenes content includes “Dream is Destiny,...
- 11/15/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The average person has probably never heard of the Roland Tr-808 (a.k.a. the “808”) drum machine, but they have almost certainly heard it.
Drum machines have played a crucial role in the history and development of hip-hop music. In the golden age of the genre, they were relatively inexpensive and could simulate various drum sounds. The 808 was unique in that it provided a very low-frequency bass that has become synonymous with hip-hop.
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Alex Dunn’s new documentary “808” delves into the history of this influential device. It features interviews from a bevy of beloved artists, including Rick Rubin, the Beastie Boys, Questlove, Pharrell, Diplo, and many more. After appearing at numerous festivals, it will finally be available for streaming on December 9 on Apple Music.
You can watch the trailer below.
Drum machines have played a crucial role in the history and development of hip-hop music. In the golden age of the genre, they were relatively inexpensive and could simulate various drum sounds. The 808 was unique in that it provided a very low-frequency bass that has become synonymous with hip-hop.
Read More: ‘Punch Drunk Love’ Composer Jon Brion Explores Film’s Musical Rhythms, Compares It To An Old Hollywood Musical
Alex Dunn’s new documentary “808” delves into the history of this influential device. It features interviews from a bevy of beloved artists, including Rick Rubin, the Beastie Boys, Questlove, Pharrell, Diplo, and many more. After appearing at numerous festivals, it will finally be available for streaming on December 9 on Apple Music.
You can watch the trailer below.
- 11/15/2016
- by Casey Coit
- Indiewire
You know it’s a great day when Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch Drunk Love” finally arrives on The Criterion Collection. Both DVD and Blu-ray versions of the unconventional romance are now available to purchase, and the sets include some pretty incredible exclusives, including a restored HD digital transfer of the film, supervised by Anderson himself, a handful of deleted scenes and an essay by Miranda July. Also included is an interview with Jon Brion, the composer behind the film’s landmark score.
Read More: Watch: 20-Minute Video Essay Explores Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Punch-Drunk Love,’ Early Shorts & Comedy Sketches
At the time of the film’s production, Brion was known for his work with music artists like Rufus Wainwright, Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple. He worked closely with Anderson to craft the unique score of the film, which mixes passionate orchestral melodies with percussive dissonance to evoke the push...
Read More: Watch: 20-Minute Video Essay Explores Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Punch-Drunk Love,’ Early Shorts & Comedy Sketches
At the time of the film’s production, Brion was known for his work with music artists like Rufus Wainwright, Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple. He worked closely with Anderson to craft the unique score of the film, which mixes passionate orchestral melodies with percussive dissonance to evoke the push...
- 11/15/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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