There’s no denying it: The big names of instrumental rock cast a long shadow. Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Tortoise, Mogwai. Fairly or not, it’s silly to pretend these and the other bands that have carved out their distinctive sounds in the post-rock landscape haven’t made alternative points of…
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- 9/22/2017
- by Alex McLevy
- avclub.com
Following weeks of complicated conspiracies, ridiculous drone strikes and obnoxious ponytailed terrorists, Thursday’s Scandal finally allowed Olivia Pope and Associates to resume business as usual.
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Of course, “business as usual” for Opa isn’t any less insane than what we’ve seen in recent weeks. Tasked with proving the innocence of a man on death row, the remaining Gladiators — Quinn, Huck and the other guy — traveled to his backwoods hometown to confront the racist bartender whose testimony led to his arrest. (And I mean this guy was, like, cartoonishly racist.) Anyway, guns were...
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Of course, “business as usual” for Opa isn’t any less insane than what we’ve seen in recent weeks. Tasked with proving the innocence of a man on death row, the remaining Gladiators — Quinn, Huck and the other guy — traveled to his backwoods hometown to confront the racist bartender whose testimony led to his arrest. (And I mean this guy was, like, cartoonishly racist.) Anyway, guns were...
- 5/12/2017
- TVLine.com
The End Date has been handled.
Although ABC isn’t commenting, multiple sources confirm to TVLine exclusively that Scandal‘s upcoming seventh seventh will be its last. The network is expected to make a formal announcement at its upfront presentation on Tuesday. I’m told series creator Shonda Rhimes made the call to conclude the series, and ABC accepted her decision.
The news comes with three episodes remaining in Scandal‘s current sixth season.
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Rhimes has previously said that, unlike the long-running Grey’s Anatomy,...
Although ABC isn’t commenting, multiple sources confirm to TVLine exclusively that Scandal‘s upcoming seventh seventh will be its last. The network is expected to make a formal announcement at its upfront presentation on Tuesday. I’m told series creator Shonda Rhimes made the call to conclude the series, and ABC accepted her decision.
The news comes with three episodes remaining in Scandal‘s current sixth season.
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Rhimes has previously said that, unlike the long-running Grey’s Anatomy,...
- 5/10/2017
- TVLine.com
CBS’ Mom this Thursday drew 8.2 million total viewers and a 1.5 rating (per finals), rising 16 percent and two tenths to mark its best numbers since Feb. 2 and Feb. 16, respectively.
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Leading out of that, Life in Pieces (6 mil/1.2) ticked up a tenth and Amazing Race (4 mil/0.9) hit 3-week highs. Opening the Eye’s night, Big Bang Theory (12.4 mil/2.4) dipped juuuuuust a bit.
Elsewhere….
ABC | Grey’s Anatomy (7.1 mil/1.8) was flat, Scandal (5.2 mil/1.3) dipped a tenth and bubble drama The Catch (3 mil/0.6) held steady, clutching onto its series lows.
RelatedGrey’s Anatomy Recap:...
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Leading out of that, Life in Pieces (6 mil/1.2) ticked up a tenth and Amazing Race (4 mil/0.9) hit 3-week highs. Opening the Eye’s night, Big Bang Theory (12.4 mil/2.4) dipped juuuuuust a bit.
Elsewhere….
ABC | Grey’s Anatomy (7.1 mil/1.8) was flat, Scandal (5.2 mil/1.3) dipped a tenth and bubble drama The Catch (3 mil/0.6) held steady, clutching onto its series lows.
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- 5/5/2017
- TVLine.com
“Are we supposed to follow our king and remain as silent as he is?” That’s the tricky question posed by the first teaser trailer for Marvel’s Inhumans — especially when the king is your brother.
The video, released on Friday morning, hints at family betrayal and potential treason, all for the sake of attaining freedom.
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Marvel’s latest TV series — which will premiere two of its eight episodes on Friday, Sept. 1 in IMAX theaters for a two-week window, before the show lands on ABC — centers on a royal family of superhumans,...
The video, released on Friday morning, hints at family betrayal and potential treason, all for the sake of attaining freedom.
RelatedMarvel’s Inhumans: Teaser Poster Revealed for Fall IMAX/ABC Launch
Marvel’s latest TV series — which will premiere two of its eight episodes on Friday, Sept. 1 in IMAX theaters for a two-week window, before the show lands on ABC — centers on a royal family of superhumans,...
- 5/5/2017
- TVLine.com
Heaven help him, Alex squared off in Thursday’s Grey’s Anatomy against not only a couple of religious zealots who preferred to watch their son die than allow him to receive medical treatment but also Eliza, who supported the parents’ right to murder the kid through inaction. On top of that, he came one step closer to losing Jo for good when Andrew began to get antsy about his unexpressed feelings for her. How did it all play out? Read on…
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‘You Want To Let...
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‘You Want To Let...
- 5/5/2017
- TVLine.com
There are no Nirvana songs in As You Are. It makes sense: More than a few seconds of the iconic, underwater guitar warble from the radio smash in question would probably cost more than the entire budget of this tiny American indie. Still, we are talking about a movie named for a Nirvana song, that follows a couple of teenagers obsessed with Nirvana, and that uses Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide as a plot point. The omission feels a little glaring, even distracting. So, too, does the absence of any music from the mid-’90s, when As You Are is set. While the characters gush about the Melvins and Mudhoney and Gg Allin, director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and avant-garde composer Patrick Higgins provide their own original soundtrack. Sometimes it sounds like outtakes from an Explosions In The Sky record. Other times it sounds like an imitation of the moody synth...
- 2/23/2017
- by A.A. Dowd
- avclub.com
Explosions in the Sky delivered a powerful performance of their devastating new song, "Disintegration Anxiety" on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday.
The track finds the Texas instrumental rock outfit at their sprawling, cinematic best. The song begins with a simple vamp centered around high-wire guitar picking and proceeds to rise and recede deftly until reaching a final anthemic, emotional blowout.
"Disintegration Anxiety" was the first single off Explosions in the Sky's new album, The Wilderness, which arrived April 1st via Temporary Residence Ltd. The album was produced...
The track finds the Texas instrumental rock outfit at their sprawling, cinematic best. The song begins with a simple vamp centered around high-wire guitar picking and proceeds to rise and recede deftly until reaching a final anthemic, emotional blowout.
"Disintegration Anxiety" was the first single off Explosions in the Sky's new album, The Wilderness, which arrived April 1st via Temporary Residence Ltd. The album was produced...
- 4/5/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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This town is coming like a ghost town. This town is coming like a ghost town… Only someone who’d grown up in Coventry could have written a song like that. But The Specials were really onto something with their seventies ska revival and two tone hit single about urban decay and the increasing problems of deindustrialisation in working class cities. People failed to heed their warning however, and now there are a boatload of abandoned towns around this planet that are, for a wide variety of reasons, stuck in more of a time warp than Frank N. Furter.
These deserted districts act as relic to a nearly forgotten past; a sort of comatose time capsule where the streets have no name and the houses have no doors. They’re the sort of places that playing hour after hour of Silent Hill in a dark room has...
This town is coming like a ghost town. This town is coming like a ghost town… Only someone who’d grown up in Coventry could have written a song like that. But The Specials were really onto something with their seventies ska revival and two tone hit single about urban decay and the increasing problems of deindustrialisation in working class cities. People failed to heed their warning however, and now there are a boatload of abandoned towns around this planet that are, for a wide variety of reasons, stuck in more of a time warp than Frank N. Furter.
These deserted districts act as relic to a nearly forgotten past; a sort of comatose time capsule where the streets have no name and the houses have no doors. They’re the sort of places that playing hour after hour of Silent Hill in a dark room has...
- 3/3/2016
- by Dave Pittaway
- Obsessed with Film
It was on “The Tree Of Life” that composer Hanan Townshend first entered the sphere of Terence Malick. One of his pieces, "Eternal Pulse," was featured in the soundtrack, and he has since become a regular collaborator with the director. Townshend scored Malick's next feature, “To The Wonder,” and now he’s back to do the same on the upcoming “Knight Of Cups.” Starring Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, and a huge ensemble of actors, the film chronicles one man’s search for himself in the empty industry of Hollywood. And below, we have an exclusive listen to two of Townshend’s tracks for the film — “Water Theme No. 1” and “Distress” — providing an evocative backdrop for Malick’s film of spiritual and personal musings. Read More: All The Songs In Terrence Malick's 'Knight Of Cups': Lots Of Classical, Plus Tracks By Explosions In The Sky, Burial,...
- 2/16/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Friday Night Lights — the book, turned movie, turned TV show about football in a small Texas town — will assume a new cultural form next year when it's staged as a musical in Los Angeles, E! reports.
The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical will be based primarily on the beloved NBC series, which ran between 2006 and 2011. The show will even feature series star Scott Porter — who played golden boy quarterback Jason Street — as Coach Taylor (originally portrayed by Kyle Chandler).
Porter confirmed his involvement on Twitter with a Dubsmash video, in...
The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical will be based primarily on the beloved NBC series, which ran between 2006 and 2011. The show will even feature series star Scott Porter — who played golden boy quarterback Jason Street — as Coach Taylor (originally portrayed by Kyle Chandler).
Porter confirmed his involvement on Twitter with a Dubsmash video, in...
- 11/24/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Clear eyes, full hearts, no auto-tune... Friday Night Lights is getting the musical treatment, y'all. We repeat: Fnl: The Musical is happening. "Every day counts. One night matters," The Fnl Musical account tweeted on Tuesday. "The Unauthorized #FNLMusical is coming to La in 2016!" Go on, feel all the feelings while queuing up "Explosions in the Sky" on your phone. We'll wait. From the masterminds behind the summer's one-night-only hit production of The Unauthorized O.C. Musical comes The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical, which we're hearing will premiere in late spring or early summer (date and venue to be announced later). Dillon, here we come! Oh...
- 11/24/2015
- E! Online
There are a variety of jobs in this economy (in this economy?!). Some jobs have music playing over a speaker, which probably means you’re working at a restaurant (yummy!). Some jobs drag and demand you listen to music that's as upbeat as possible (as coke-line stains on desks are no longer de rigueur). Some jobs allow you an opportunity to listen to a podcast, a fact that constantly amazes this writer (what could they possibly be doing all day? Filing? Is it really just eight hours of filing and "Radiolab" archives?). Some of us, who spend a lot of time with words for work, are forced to go instrumental (because you can’t be writing an obit and accidentally slip the word Tubthumping in there). Personally, as I find jazz too jazzy, this means minimal movie scores, like Arcade Fire’s one for Her or Explosions in the Sky...
- 10/8/2015
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
If Peter Berg and Connie Britton couldn’t get Kyle Chandler to don Coach Taylor’s baseball cap again, how the heck did a Texas-based chain of movie theaters bring home the win?
Easy, says a very grateful John Gross, director of creative production at Alamo Drafthouse — aka the people who brought us Chandler’s Friday Night Lights-themed, silence-your-cell-phones public-service announcement: The actor, who lives in Austin, is a frequent patron of the movie-theater chain.
Video Friday Night Lights‘ Kyle Chandler Resurrects Coach Taylor on the Big Screen — Watch the Lol Clip
“Kyle lives near one of our locations and is a regular,...
Easy, says a very grateful John Gross, director of creative production at Alamo Drafthouse — aka the people who brought us Chandler’s Friday Night Lights-themed, silence-your-cell-phones public-service announcement: The actor, who lives in Austin, is a frequent patron of the movie-theater chain.
Video Friday Night Lights‘ Kyle Chandler Resurrects Coach Taylor on the Big Screen — Watch the Lol Clip
“Kyle lives near one of our locations and is a regular,...
- 7/31/2015
- TVLine.com
This may be the closest thing we’ll get to a Friday Night Lights movie — and we’ll take it.
Kyle Chandler has brought back Coach Taylor for Alamo Drafthouse’s new no-talking-during-the-movie PSA that includes the phrase, “Clear eyes, full hearts… turn your g-ddamn cell phones off!”
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In the “inspirational message” — the type of which airs before feature films at the Austin, Texas-based chain’s movie theaters — Coach delivers one of his signature team pep talks only to be interrupted by members of the audience chatting and mobile phones ringing.
Kyle Chandler has brought back Coach Taylor for Alamo Drafthouse’s new no-talking-during-the-movie PSA that includes the phrase, “Clear eyes, full hearts… turn your g-ddamn cell phones off!”
Photos Fall TV Death Watch: 18 Characters We Fear Won’t Survive Past 2015
In the “inspirational message” — the type of which airs before feature films at the Austin, Texas-based chain’s movie theaters — Coach delivers one of his signature team pep talks only to be interrupted by members of the audience chatting and mobile phones ringing.
- 7/31/2015
- TVLine.com
Director: David Gordon Green; Screenwriter: Paul Logan; Starring: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Harmony Korine; Running time: 97 mins; Certificate: 12A
"I'm losing hope in tomorrow," groans Al Pacino's lonely locksmith Manglehorn midway through this lethargic movie. It's a feeling we can relate to, given the failure of an engaging narrative to emerge and take the titular character on an absorbing journey.
It's a real shame, as Pacino excels as a man who can't let go of the love of his life despite her continued absence. Anyone who has looked someone in the eyes and felt such pure love for them, only to have it taken away, can relate to his heartbroken predicament. He even has his own creepy room containing a stash of mementoes and photos from their time together, along with numerous letters he wrote to her that were 'returned to sender'.
But can he move on from that with...
"I'm losing hope in tomorrow," groans Al Pacino's lonely locksmith Manglehorn midway through this lethargic movie. It's a feeling we can relate to, given the failure of an engaging narrative to emerge and take the titular character on an absorbing journey.
It's a real shame, as Pacino excels as a man who can't let go of the love of his life despite her continued absence. Anyone who has looked someone in the eyes and felt such pure love for them, only to have it taken away, can relate to his heartbroken predicament. He even has his own creepy room containing a stash of mementoes and photos from their time together, along with numerous letters he wrote to her that were 'returned to sender'.
But can he move on from that with...
- 6/24/2015
- Digital Spy
Manglehorn
Written by Paul Logan
Directed by David Gordon Green
USA, 2014
Manglehorn dabbles in the strange and peculiar, but at its core, it may be director David Gordon Green’s safest and least rewarding drama yet. The film contains weird scribbles in its margins, but the narrative is overwhelmingly slight. A.J. Manglehorn (Al Pacino) is a grizzled locksmith and wounded soul living in small-town Texas, still aching for a woman named Clara who got away many years ago. He sends regretful letters to her like clockwork but they always find a way back to his mailbox unread. Manglehorn now spends his days cutting locks, looking after his ill cat and making kind, flirty conversation with Dawn (Holly Hunter), the friendly bank teller he visits each week.
It’s often tricky to pigeonhole Green, whose work has shifted from lyrical indie to stoner-comedy, and now, he’s found a brief...
Written by Paul Logan
Directed by David Gordon Green
USA, 2014
Manglehorn dabbles in the strange and peculiar, but at its core, it may be director David Gordon Green’s safest and least rewarding drama yet. The film contains weird scribbles in its margins, but the narrative is overwhelmingly slight. A.J. Manglehorn (Al Pacino) is a grizzled locksmith and wounded soul living in small-town Texas, still aching for a woman named Clara who got away many years ago. He sends regretful letters to her like clockwork but they always find a way back to his mailbox unread. Manglehorn now spends his days cutting locks, looking after his ill cat and making kind, flirty conversation with Dawn (Holly Hunter), the friendly bank teller he visits each week.
It’s often tricky to pigeonhole Green, whose work has shifted from lyrical indie to stoner-comedy, and now, he’s found a brief...
- 6/17/2015
- by Ty Landis
- SoundOnSight
Full Disclosure: Quite a few years back, when Twitter was first getting off the ground, a little record label was doing a giveaway for their (at the time) meagre Twitter fans, myself including, I won and they sent me three CDs in the mail; Below The Thunders Of The Upper Deep” by Culted, Psychic Maps by Dysrythmia and With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone by Minsk. Now, I hadn’t heard of the other two bands but the name Minsk was more than a bit familiar, as the band shared stomping grounds, a producer by the name of Sanford Parker and occasionally a musician or two with one of my all time favorite bands, Yakuza. So, needless to say, my first listen to Minsk was favorably colored by those circumstances and they became the first doom band I truly fell in love with (this was still fairly early...
- 3/31/2015
- by Chris Melkus
- Destroy the Brain
This is how it goes with Terrence Malick — long stretches of quiet around whatever he's working on, followed by an intense period of scrutiny as it gets unveiled. And so it goes today, with "Knight Of Cups" premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival. The first poster was revealed, our review is right here, and we've gotten our hands on all the music featured in the director's latest look at the soul of man (or something). As per usual, Malick leans heavily on classical jams, with compositions by Arvo Part, Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, and more. For those of you want to cue up your playlists with something more contemporary, there are tunes by Thee Oh Sees, Explosions In The Sky, Burial, and a ton of music by ambient electronic artist Biosphere. Below you'll find the full list of songs, and on the next page, all the tracks your ears can handle.
- 2/8/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Manglehorn
Written by Paul Logan
Directed by David Gordon Green
USA, 2014
David Gordon Green has never allowed himself to be easily pinned down as a filmmaker. After making his name with dreamy independent films about relationships and growing up, he moved onto big budget comedies of varying quality. While even his most dire efforts bring a certain amount of style (even the awful Your Highness had a compelling visual softness not usually associated with medieval stoner comedies), many have mourned the direction of his career. His newest effort, Manglehorn, feels like a bastard child of these two worlds. In many ways it’s his most visually adventurous film since his career began, but it’s hardly a return to his early work in terms of feel, theme or style.
Al Pacino stars as the titular character of Manglehorn, an old grizzled locksmith who spends his days yearning for the lost love of his life,...
Written by Paul Logan
Directed by David Gordon Green
USA, 2014
David Gordon Green has never allowed himself to be easily pinned down as a filmmaker. After making his name with dreamy independent films about relationships and growing up, he moved onto big budget comedies of varying quality. While even his most dire efforts bring a certain amount of style (even the awful Your Highness had a compelling visual softness not usually associated with medieval stoner comedies), many have mourned the direction of his career. His newest effort, Manglehorn, feels like a bastard child of these two worlds. In many ways it’s his most visually adventurous film since his career began, but it’s hardly a return to his early work in terms of feel, theme or style.
Al Pacino stars as the titular character of Manglehorn, an old grizzled locksmith who spends his days yearning for the lost love of his life,...
- 9/11/2014
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
A.J. Manglehorn is a man of minor miracles. A locksmith by trade, the old man has a magnetism that causes broken or unhappy people to become close with him. Perhaps that’s because of the charm that radiates off the performance from living film legend Al Pacino. Or perhaps it’s what to be expected in another Texas-set tale full of eccentric personalities from the prolific director David Gordon Green.
Manglehorn had its world premiere last month at the Venice Film Festival, but made its North American debut at Tiff 2014. Starring Pacino as the titular character, Manglehorn is a man without much in his life: an old shop he must upkeep by himself, a sick cat that refuses to eat its food, a casual flirtation with the bank teller (Holly Hunter) he sees every Friday, a bitter son (Chris Messina) that wants as little to do with him as possible,...
Manglehorn had its world premiere last month at the Venice Film Festival, but made its North American debut at Tiff 2014. Starring Pacino as the titular character, Manglehorn is a man without much in his life: an old shop he must upkeep by himself, a sick cat that refuses to eat its food, a casual flirtation with the bank teller (Holly Hunter) he sees every Friday, a bitter son (Chris Messina) that wants as little to do with him as possible,...
- 9/9/2014
- by Zachary Shevich
- We Got This Covered
Venice — Yesterday's Al Pacino vehicle here at Venice, "The Humbling," was a disappointment: this is not the Pacino you are looking for. Thank goodness, then, for "Manglehorn", where the sure directorial hands of David Gordon Green know exactly how to unlock latter day Pacino's strengths while reining in his worst excesses. Shot November 2013 in Austin over just 25 days, "Manglehorn" is an often impressionistic character study of a grumpy locksmith, A. J. Manglehorn, but before you run away screaming that you can only take so many impressionistic character studies in one year (off the top of my head, other recent examples include "The Goob," "Locke," "Boyhood," "Winter Sleep," Green's own "Joe"), I'll note that it is among the decent examples of the form. It's difficult to write characters studies about happy people with few obstacles (Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" is an unusual exception) so the usual form is to either put...
- 8/30/2014
- by Catherine Bray
- Hitfix
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It’s often hard to talk about music without mentioning singers. From the flighty tones of Jeff Buckley to the earthy warble of Louis Armstrong, a great voice can help a record maintain legendary status long after its initial release. Even now, in an industry that increasingly thrives on memorable phrases and catchy, sing-a-long refrains, vocals can make all the difference between climbing to the top of the pile and fading into obscurity.
But what about the instruments behind the voices? Sometimes great tracks eschew singing altogether, relying instead on a mixture of intricate arrangements and technical prowess to make their mark on the musical landscape. Far from meaningless melodies, these tracks can weave elaborate narratives and conjure up a complex array of emotions – all without using a single word.
The power of a good instrumental is best summed up by legendary guitarist Carlos Santana: “I realised...
It’s often hard to talk about music without mentioning singers. From the flighty tones of Jeff Buckley to the earthy warble of Louis Armstrong, a great voice can help a record maintain legendary status long after its initial release. Even now, in an industry that increasingly thrives on memorable phrases and catchy, sing-a-long refrains, vocals can make all the difference between climbing to the top of the pile and fading into obscurity.
But what about the instruments behind the voices? Sometimes great tracks eschew singing altogether, relying instead on a mixture of intricate arrangements and technical prowess to make their mark on the musical landscape. Far from meaningless melodies, these tracks can weave elaborate narratives and conjure up a complex array of emotions – all without using a single word.
The power of a good instrumental is best summed up by legendary guitarist Carlos Santana: “I realised...
- 8/8/2014
- by Sam Carter
- Obsessed with Film
Running is a very hard sport to depict onscreen. Without a rousing score by Vangelis or the horns of “Gonna Fly Now” blasting through the speakers, it is very hard for any filmmaker or actor to show off a character’s speed or endurance in a memorable way. Leg power does not often translate to emotional power on the screen, which is one of the many problems facing 4 Minute Mile, a sports drama that barely goes the distance to be either inspirational or inspired.
Our plucky underdog is Drew Jacobs (Kelly Blatz), a track-and-field senior in Seattle who has a drug-dealing brother (Cam Gigandet), an absent mother (Kim Basinger, also mostly absent from the film) and a dead father. Besides these autobiographical details, there is not much to Drew. He likes to run and he hopes his speed can catapult him out of a life being a mule for his...
Our plucky underdog is Drew Jacobs (Kelly Blatz), a track-and-field senior in Seattle who has a drug-dealing brother (Cam Gigandet), an absent mother (Kim Basinger, also mostly absent from the film) and a dead father. Besides these autobiographical details, there is not much to Drew. He likes to run and he hopes his speed can catapult him out of a life being a mule for his...
- 8/2/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Few current TV shows are as cinematic as NBC's "Hannibal," and that includes the stellar music that accompanies each episode. If you're a fan of the series who's looking to add to your CD collection, then read on for some very cool news!
From the Press Release:
Lakeshore Records will release four volumes of music from the hit NBC television series Hannibal, composed by Brian Reitzell (Lost in Translation, "Boss").
The Hannibal Season One Volumes 1 & 2 soundtrack will be available digitally on August 5th and on CD September 2nd. The Hannibal Season Two Volumes 1 & 2 Original TV Soundtracks will be available digitally on September 2nd and on CD September 23rd.
“Visually it’s so artfully done and quite fantastical so I see it like an opera staging; otherwise, I might be more disturbed,” said Reitzell of Hannibal. “Listening to the music alone is scarier than in the context of the show.”
One...
From the Press Release:
Lakeshore Records will release four volumes of music from the hit NBC television series Hannibal, composed by Brian Reitzell (Lost in Translation, "Boss").
The Hannibal Season One Volumes 1 & 2 soundtrack will be available digitally on August 5th and on CD September 2nd. The Hannibal Season Two Volumes 1 & 2 Original TV Soundtracks will be available digitally on September 2nd and on CD September 23rd.
“Visually it’s so artfully done and quite fantastical so I see it like an opera staging; otherwise, I might be more disturbed,” said Reitzell of Hannibal. “Listening to the music alone is scarier than in the context of the show.”
One...
- 8/1/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Lone Survivor star Mark Wahlberg was the recipient of Spike TV’s 2014 “Guys Choice” Troops Choice Award.
Former Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell and actors Charlie Hunnam, Emile Hirsch and Wahlberg attended Spike TV’s ‘Guys Choice 2014′ at Sony Pictures Studios on June 7, 2014 in Culver City, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for Spike TV).
Spike TV’s “Guys Choice” program premieres Wednesday, June 11 at 9p Et/Pt on Spike TV.
In keeping with Spike’s year-round efforts to support our nation’s servicemen and women, “Guys Choice” will once again feature inspiring moments saluting our troops and returning veterans.
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative face an impossible, moral decision in Lone Survivor, the intense, action-packed story of heroism, courage and survival, on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, including Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD with UltraViolet™ and On Demand Now, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Former Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell and actors Charlie Hunnam, Emile Hirsch and Wahlberg attended Spike TV’s ‘Guys Choice 2014′ at Sony Pictures Studios on June 7, 2014 in Culver City, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for Spike TV).
Spike TV’s “Guys Choice” program premieres Wednesday, June 11 at 9p Et/Pt on Spike TV.
In keeping with Spike’s year-round efforts to support our nation’s servicemen and women, “Guys Choice” will once again feature inspiring moments saluting our troops and returning veterans.
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative face an impossible, moral decision in Lone Survivor, the intense, action-packed story of heroism, courage and survival, on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, including Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD with UltraViolet™ and On Demand Now, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
- 6/9/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative face an impossible, moral decision in Lone Survivor, the intense, action-packed story of heroism, courage and survival, coming to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, including Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD with UltraViolet™ and On Demand on June 3, 2014, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Lone Survivor will also be available on Digital HD two weeks earlier on May 20, 2014.
Based on Marcus Luttrell’s The New York Times bestselling memoir, Director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) explores the unbreakable bond of brotherhood in a film that Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers praised as “a powerhouse film.” Lone Survivor tells the incredible tale of Operation Red Wings, a mission about four Navy SEALs ambushed by the enemy deep in the mountains of Afghanistan. As the soldiers are confronted by unthinkable odds they must find reserves of strength and resilience in order to fight to the finish.
Lone Survivor will also be available on Digital HD two weeks earlier on May 20, 2014.
Based on Marcus Luttrell’s The New York Times bestselling memoir, Director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) explores the unbreakable bond of brotherhood in a film that Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers praised as “a powerhouse film.” Lone Survivor tells the incredible tale of Operation Red Wings, a mission about four Navy SEALs ambushed by the enemy deep in the mountains of Afghanistan. As the soldiers are confronted by unthinkable odds they must find reserves of strength and resilience in order to fight to the finish.
- 4/14/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
David Wingo and David Gordon Green roll pretty deep. The composer scored the director's first feature, "George Washington," and the pair have collaborated numerous times over the years on "All the Real Girls," "Snow Angels," "The Sitter" and last year's "Prince Avalanche." Their working relationship continues with the forthcoming "Joe," and before you see the movie this weekend, you can treat your ears to the music. The folks over at Paste have unveiled a full listen to the soundtrack, and you can click below to hear it for yourself. Starring Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan, the film follows an ex-con and troubled teen who form a bond in this Southern drama/thriller. Wingo composed the score with Jeff McILlwain, and they nicely set the tone for the story, one with punch, tension and dread all given fair weight across the fifteen tracks (plus songs by Explosions In The Sky and...
- 4/7/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
There have only been five new installments of “Saturday Night Live” this calendar year, so you’ll be forgiven if the pace of the season as a whole has seemed somewhat off. Throw in the fact that Seth Meyers left between one of the two lengthy breaks in the past three months, and you have a downright disjointed season. But starting tonight, “SNL” airs three new episodes in a row. Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogan will have their respective chances to shine in upcoming weeks, but tonight, it’s time for Louis C.K. to host for a second time. His first hosting gig back in the Fall of 2012 was a mixed bag, but did offer up some classic stuff (including the digital short “Lincoln” and the first installment of “Last Call,” a now-recurring sketch that tends to close out episodes) as well as fascinating disasters (“Mountain Call” is still cringe-worthy...
- 3/30/2014
- by Ryan McGee
- Hitfix
Like a moth to flame, during SXSW I will flock toward Franklin BBQ. I have more in common with Ace Reporter's "Stick To" music video than I thought. Directed by Austin-based Peter Simonite and Annie Gunn, "Stick To" personifies one of the weirder winged insects and puts him on a bike; he's drawn to a light in an apartment, who as it ends up is Alex Gehring from rock band Ringo Deathstarr. Watch the video below, then watch our exclusive behind-the-scenes commentary video below it. Simonite and Gunn describe the process of sending their human-moth out into the streets, and just how he got his dusty aura: with the help of ashes collected from Franklin's barbeque pits. Gunn and Simonite were also behind Immaculate Noise favorite Explosions in the Sky's short film "Postcard from 1952"; the latter director also helmed another clip from a popular Austin band -- Spoon --...
- 3/6/2014
- Hitfix
With every awards season comes a flood of “best of” compilations and top ten lists, but film scores can be tricky in that department. After all, different composers are operating on different levels, each one working toward a separate goal in his or her respective picture. Brian Tyler aims for something propulsive and heroic in Iron Man 3, while Saving Mr. Banks’ score apparently features Thomas Newman doing his best Thomas Newman impersonation. Lists can be tough when scores operate so independently of one another
So without further ado, I present my favorite film scores from 2013. Unranked:
Philomena – Alexandre Desplat
Saying Alexandre Desplat likes himself a mean waltz is like saying Johnny Depp likes himself a little eye makeup: they’re both gross understatements. Scoring Stephen Frears’ loose adaptation of Philomena Lee’s search for the son she was forced to give up at birth, Desplat makes his affinity abundantly clear with the title track,...
So without further ado, I present my favorite film scores from 2013. Unranked:
Philomena – Alexandre Desplat
Saying Alexandre Desplat likes himself a mean waltz is like saying Johnny Depp likes himself a little eye makeup: they’re both gross understatements. Scoring Stephen Frears’ loose adaptation of Philomena Lee’s search for the son she was forced to give up at birth, Desplat makes his affinity abundantly clear with the title track,...
- 3/2/2014
- by David Klein
- SoundOnSight
If you happen to be a student of ’90s indie rock, Slint’s Spiderland is an essential text. Engineered by the great Steve Albini in 1991, the same year grunge broke, Spiderland exploded the group’s post-punk songwriting into radically distended forms, ultimately helping to pioneer the field of what’s now portenteously termed “post-rock” (Mogwai, Gy!Be, Explosions in the Sky, etc.). Though that wound up as their final recorded missive, the album’s legend has not dimmed. Director Lance Bangs (Jackass, too many music videos to list here) will be presenting Breadcrumb Trail, a documentary chronicling the making of Spiderland as well as the album’s long shadow of influence, at this year’s SXSW. The first trailer is embedded below:
The post Trailer: Post-rock pioneers Slint get the doc treatment in ‘Breadcrumb Trail’ appeared first on Sound On Sight.
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- 2/23/2014
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Lone Survivor
Composed by Explosions in the Sky and Steve Jablonsky
Metropolis Movie Music
One of the more surprising developments this winter has been the financial success of Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor, a half true-to-life action thriller about 2005′s failed Operation Red Wings. Against the Oscar fare that typically hits multiplexes this time of year, it’s grossed an estimated $108 million as of February 7. It’s also fueled debate over the authenticity of the film’s events as adapted from Patrick Robinson’s gussied-up memoir. In addition to multiplying the number of Taliban forces Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell and his team fought, Lone Survivor makes little effort to complicate U.S. involvement in the Middle East beyond black-and-white terms. While some of the blame falls squarely on Berg’s (and Robinson’s) shoulders, Lone Survivor’s score deserves some heat, too.
Enlisting the services of Texas post-rockers Explosions in the Sky...
Composed by Explosions in the Sky and Steve Jablonsky
Metropolis Movie Music
One of the more surprising developments this winter has been the financial success of Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor, a half true-to-life action thriller about 2005′s failed Operation Red Wings. Against the Oscar fare that typically hits multiplexes this time of year, it’s grossed an estimated $108 million as of February 7. It’s also fueled debate over the authenticity of the film’s events as adapted from Patrick Robinson’s gussied-up memoir. In addition to multiplying the number of Taliban forces Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell and his team fought, Lone Survivor makes little effort to complicate U.S. involvement in the Middle East beyond black-and-white terms. While some of the blame falls squarely on Berg’s (and Robinson’s) shoulders, Lone Survivor’s score deserves some heat, too.
Enlisting the services of Texas post-rockers Explosions in the Sky...
- 2/10/2014
- by David Klein
- SoundOnSight
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."
The words above may come from Liverpool's legendary soccer manager Bill Shankly, but they perfectly epitomise the feelings and mindsets of the characters inhabiting Peter Berg's 2004 sports drama Friday Night Lights. Set in Odessa, Texas - where high school team the Permian Panthers are the beating heart that keeps the local community alive - Berg's film hones in on the team's state championship run-in and the trials and tribulations of the players and their coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton).
Five years previously, Oliver Stone made the flashy Any Given Sunday (a drama stretching from locker to boardroom) but here the focus is on the grass-roots, a side of the game untouched by big corporate deals and mega-money professional contracts.
The words above may come from Liverpool's legendary soccer manager Bill Shankly, but they perfectly epitomise the feelings and mindsets of the characters inhabiting Peter Berg's 2004 sports drama Friday Night Lights. Set in Odessa, Texas - where high school team the Permian Panthers are the beating heart that keeps the local community alive - Berg's film hones in on the team's state championship run-in and the trials and tribulations of the players and their coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton).
Five years previously, Oliver Stone made the flashy Any Given Sunday (a drama stretching from locker to boardroom) but here the focus is on the grass-roots, a side of the game untouched by big corporate deals and mega-money professional contracts.
- 2/2/2014
- Digital Spy
Peter Berg ill-advisedly gives the full Hollwood treatment to the true story of an ill-fated Us Navy Seal mission in Afghanistan
Replete with a certain kind of self-importance and self-forgiveness, this Afghan war movie starring Mark Wahlberg has a distinctively martyred America-at-bay feel. Rather like Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down from 2001, it balances indomitable fraternal loyalty against strategic disaster and tacitly claims a net gain. The film is a pumped-up Hollywoodisation of a true story recounted in the 2007 non-fiction bestseller of the same name, about an ill-fated Us Navy Seal mission to take out a leading Taliban commander in remote and mountainous north-eastern Afghanistan. In treacherous terrain, with inadequate air cover and patchy communication links, the four-man team was detected and hopelessly outnumbered, but battled on with extraordinary determination. Like the book, the film emphasises that their predicament was all down to a humane refusal to kill a gaggle...
Replete with a certain kind of self-importance and self-forgiveness, this Afghan war movie starring Mark Wahlberg has a distinctively martyred America-at-bay feel. Rather like Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down from 2001, it balances indomitable fraternal loyalty against strategic disaster and tacitly claims a net gain. The film is a pumped-up Hollywoodisation of a true story recounted in the 2007 non-fiction bestseller of the same name, about an ill-fated Us Navy Seal mission to take out a leading Taliban commander in remote and mountainous north-eastern Afghanistan. In treacherous terrain, with inadequate air cover and patchy communication links, the four-man team was detected and hopelessly outnumbered, but battled on with extraordinary determination. Like the book, the film emphasises that their predicament was all down to a humane refusal to kill a gaggle...
- 1/31/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In Part One (Read It here) of our interview with Steve Jablonsky, composer of films like Transformers, The Island, Pain And Gain, Steamboy, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and most recently, Battleship, Ender's Game, and Lone Survivor, we talked about how he got into composing and his earlier work. In Part Two we discuss Transformers: Age Of Extinction, his collaboration with Explosions in the Sky for Lone Survivor, working with Michael Bay, future projects, and a certain superhero movie...
- 1/17/2014
- by Paul Shirey
- JoBlo.com
Odd List Ivan Radford 7 Jan 2014 - 06:37
Last year may only be a memory, but its film themes linger in the mind. Here's Ivan's pick of 2013's best soundtracks...
Just a quick scan down the list below reveals an extraordinary breadth of genres and subject matters, from imposing, expensive science fiction films to quiet, intimate stories about men at sea on boats or outlaws breaking out of prison to be with their wives. Disparate though the films are, they're all linked by at least one common motif: their music is utterly brilliant.
So with 2014 already well underway, and an entire new wave of films with great music in them beckoning, join us as we look back to the movies of last year, their finest soundtracks, and the must-listen pieces of music you can dig out on each one.
1. Gravity (Steven Price)
Must-listen track: Don't Let Go
When does sound...
Last year may only be a memory, but its film themes linger in the mind. Here's Ivan's pick of 2013's best soundtracks...
Just a quick scan down the list below reveals an extraordinary breadth of genres and subject matters, from imposing, expensive science fiction films to quiet, intimate stories about men at sea on boats or outlaws breaking out of prison to be with their wives. Disparate though the films are, they're all linked by at least one common motif: their music is utterly brilliant.
So with 2014 already well underway, and an entire new wave of films with great music in them beckoning, join us as we look back to the movies of last year, their finest soundtracks, and the must-listen pieces of music you can dig out on each one.
1. Gravity (Steven Price)
Must-listen track: Don't Let Go
When does sound...
- 1/6/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
It has been another extraordinary year for motion pictures. We recently posted our staff list of the 30 best films released in 2013, and with 40 writers who participated, 160 films received at least one vote. Every year we also post an article listing the best movie scores, only this this time I decided to do something a little different. Instead of writing a lengthy, time-consuming article (which to be honest, wouldn’t give the music justice since you can’t hear any of the tracks), I instead decided to make a mix tape for our listeners. Included are 20 tracks from my 16 favourite original movie scores released this year.
Film scores were once exclusive to classically trained musicians, but over time, more and more filmmakers have hired rock, soul, electronic and hip-hop artists to create the original sound of their movies. This year alone, we’ve seen scores composed by M83’s Anthony Gonzalez...
Film scores were once exclusive to classically trained musicians, but over time, more and more filmmakers have hired rock, soul, electronic and hip-hop artists to create the original sound of their movies. This year alone, we’ve seen scores composed by M83’s Anthony Gonzalez...
- 12/29/2013
- by Sound On Sight Podcast
- SoundOnSight
After he delivered two raunchy misfires in a row with Your Highness and The Sitter, it’s gratifying to see director David Gordon Green return to the same kind of quiet, low-key dramas that put him on the map. And with an extremely limited cast and one constant backdrop, Prince Avalanche is perhaps Green’s quietest, lowest-key film yet.
Its commitment to the abstract is sometimes maddening, and its glacially slow pace is likely frustrating enough to alienate some viewers. However, I found Prince Avalanche remarkable in its ability to transfix me with the simplest of resources: two soulful performers, nature as a nonintrusive setting, feather-light direction and a minimalistic script. As it wanders along, the film possesses a strange, poetic charm that defies explanation.
As the film opens, we learn about a forest fire in the late 1980s that tore through the Texas wilderness, reducing trees and homes to ashes.
Its commitment to the abstract is sometimes maddening, and its glacially slow pace is likely frustrating enough to alienate some viewers. However, I found Prince Avalanche remarkable in its ability to transfix me with the simplest of resources: two soulful performers, nature as a nonintrusive setting, feather-light direction and a minimalistic script. As it wanders along, the film possesses a strange, poetic charm that defies explanation.
As the film opens, we learn about a forest fire in the late 1980s that tore through the Texas wilderness, reducing trees and homes to ashes.
- 11/11/2013
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Feature 29 Oct 2013 - 06:26
Don't go out in the wind and rain, stay inside and listen to some film soundtracks. Ivan's got some recommendations...
October is a horrible month to go outside but indoors, it’s an auditory utopia for film music fans. Here are four reasons why.
The Broken Circle Breakdown - The Broken Circle Breakdown Bluegrass Band
It’s always a good sign when a film forms its own band just for the soundtrack.
“If I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me for to ease my pain?” That was a question asked by Townes Van Zandt in 1972 and made famous by Emmylou Harris and Don Williams in 1981. 30 odd years later and it’s given a new, raw lease of life by this heartbreaking Belgian film, which follows the crumbling relationship of two musicians in a country group.
Writer and actress Veerle Baetens...
Don't go out in the wind and rain, stay inside and listen to some film soundtracks. Ivan's got some recommendations...
October is a horrible month to go outside but indoors, it’s an auditory utopia for film music fans. Here are four reasons why.
The Broken Circle Breakdown - The Broken Circle Breakdown Bluegrass Band
It’s always a good sign when a film forms its own band just for the soundtrack.
“If I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me for to ease my pain?” That was a question asked by Townes Van Zandt in 1972 and made famous by Emmylou Harris and Don Williams in 1981. 30 odd years later and it’s given a new, raw lease of life by this heartbreaking Belgian film, which follows the crumbling relationship of two musicians in a country group.
Writer and actress Veerle Baetens...
- 10/28/2013
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Review Luke Savage 18 Oct 2013 - 06:35
Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch star in David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche - a dreamlike buddy road movie unlike any other, Luke writes...
The way most press screenings work is that you know what you're getting before the film starts. There's a few drinks to start, some canapés if you're lucky, then someone offers you the press notes. These notes are essentially a 'this is what the film's really about' guide. Plot, themes, character motivations. If you're lucky for a second time, the author of these notes will throw in a choice word or two. I'm still smiling from the use of the word 'Sisyphean' for the John Cena film 12 Rounds about five years ago.
But what these press notes mean is that, in a world where it's hard to go in blind to a new film, there's one last opportunity to ruin the surprise.
Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch star in David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche - a dreamlike buddy road movie unlike any other, Luke writes...
The way most press screenings work is that you know what you're getting before the film starts. There's a few drinks to start, some canapés if you're lucky, then someone offers you the press notes. These notes are essentially a 'this is what the film's really about' guide. Plot, themes, character motivations. If you're lucky for a second time, the author of these notes will throw in a choice word or two. I'm still smiling from the use of the word 'Sisyphean' for the John Cena film 12 Rounds about five years ago.
But what these press notes mean is that, in a world where it's hard to go in blind to a new film, there's one last opportunity to ruin the surprise.
- 10/17/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Interview Luke Savage 18 Oct 2013 - 06:45
Pineapple Express and Eastbound & Down director David Gordon Green chats to us about his latest indie comedy drama, Prince Avalanche...
"David can’t come to the phone right now, his house is flooded." That’s my first introduction to David Gordon Green. A pretty good reason for postponing a 10 minute phone interview, you have to admit. I can't really hold a candle to Mother Nature.
So we hook up a day later. Luckily, that biblical rainstorm in Texas has subsided, and for a man who I imagine must have bigger things on his mind, he’s incredibly accommodating.
He’s also something of a challenge. How can ten minutes hold all the questions I have for a man who’s gone from American indie (George Washington, All The Real Girls) to stoner comedy (Pineapple Express) over to TV (Eastbound & Down) back to studio comedy...
Pineapple Express and Eastbound & Down director David Gordon Green chats to us about his latest indie comedy drama, Prince Avalanche...
"David can’t come to the phone right now, his house is flooded." That’s my first introduction to David Gordon Green. A pretty good reason for postponing a 10 minute phone interview, you have to admit. I can't really hold a candle to Mother Nature.
So we hook up a day later. Luckily, that biblical rainstorm in Texas has subsided, and for a man who I imagine must have bigger things on his mind, he’s incredibly accommodating.
He’s also something of a challenge. How can ten minutes hold all the questions I have for a man who’s gone from American indie (George Washington, All The Real Girls) to stoner comedy (Pineapple Express) over to TV (Eastbound & Down) back to studio comedy...
- 10/17/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Director: David Gordon Green; Screenwriter: David Gordon Green; Starring: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne; Running time: 94 mins; Certificate: 15
Prince Avalanche is the eighth feature film from director David Gordon Green, and though it's far from his best work, it's further evidence that he's one of the more interesting filmmakers to emerge from the American indie scene. Green's back catalogue is split between thoughtful dramas (see George Washington, All the Real Girls) and the kind of knockabout stoner comedies that shuffle through Team Apatow regulars Rogen, Franco, McBride et al.
These diverse stylistic paths overlap in his latest film Prince Avalanche, a remake of the small-scale Icelandic film Either Way. A comedy punctuated by moments of weight and resonance evident in Green's more dramatic work, the film casts Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as a pair of road workers painting marks across the highway in the aftermath of...
Prince Avalanche is the eighth feature film from director David Gordon Green, and though it's far from his best work, it's further evidence that he's one of the more interesting filmmakers to emerge from the American indie scene. Green's back catalogue is split between thoughtful dramas (see George Washington, All the Real Girls) and the kind of knockabout stoner comedies that shuffle through Team Apatow regulars Rogen, Franco, McBride et al.
These diverse stylistic paths overlap in his latest film Prince Avalanche, a remake of the small-scale Icelandic film Either Way. A comedy punctuated by moments of weight and resonance evident in Green's more dramatic work, the film casts Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as a pair of road workers painting marks across the highway in the aftermath of...
- 10/15/2013
- Digital Spy
The last few years have proved a difficult period in director David Gordon Green’s career. Hailed as an indie auteur with the release of his debut film, the elegiac George Washington (2000), Green made a surprising yet surefooted transition to mainstream Hollywood eight years later with stoner comedy Pineapple Express (2008). It was a far cry from his indie roots but also proved to be a box office success. Consequently, Green continued in the same vein with foul-mouthed genre films Your Highness (2011) and The Sitter (2011). The audience, however, was dwindling and the muted release of the latter film left little room for the director to maneuver.
It follows two Texas highway workers as they carry out the monotonous task of painting lines on a road amidst the backdrop of a national park ravaged by wildfires. Alvin and Lance (played by Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch) are two strikingly different personalities who...
It follows two Texas highway workers as they carry out the monotonous task of painting lines on a road amidst the backdrop of a national park ravaged by wildfires. Alvin and Lance (played by Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch) are two strikingly different personalities who...
- 10/10/2013
- Shadowlocked
Friday Night Lights, Season 5, Episode 13, “Always”
Written by Jason Katims
Directed by Michael Waxman
Aired February 9th, 2011 on DirecTV
Friday Night Lights had a unique journey, to say the least. Based on the novel of the same name, which was adapted into a film first, the series premiered in 2007 on NBC to critical praise but didn’t manage to find a significant audience. NBC supported the series, bringing it back for a truncated season two (courtesy of the Writers Strike), but season three seemed unlikely to happen until NBC worked out a deal with DirecTV to cost-share the series, renewing it for season three, and then in one fell swoop, four and five. Because of this rocky road, the creators actually ended up crafting three separate episodes intended to function as series finales, season one’s “State”, season three’s “Tomorrow Blues”, and season five’s “Always”. Many series struggle...
Written by Jason Katims
Directed by Michael Waxman
Aired February 9th, 2011 on DirecTV
Friday Night Lights had a unique journey, to say the least. Based on the novel of the same name, which was adapted into a film first, the series premiered in 2007 on NBC to critical praise but didn’t manage to find a significant audience. NBC supported the series, bringing it back for a truncated season two (courtesy of the Writers Strike), but season three seemed unlikely to happen until NBC worked out a deal with DirecTV to cost-share the series, renewing it for season three, and then in one fell swoop, four and five. Because of this rocky road, the creators actually ended up crafting three separate episodes intended to function as series finales, season one’s “State”, season three’s “Tomorrow Blues”, and season five’s “Always”. Many series struggle...
- 9/27/2013
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
Prince Avalanche
Directed by: David Gordon Green
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Paul Rudd
Running Time: 1 hr 34 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: August 16, 2013 (Chicago)
Plot: Two males, one of them a guy (Hirsch), the other a man (Rudd), work on a Texas highway in the summer. Unknowingly bonded by their own ignorance, they are detached from a civilization that includes girls, wives, and general familial responsibility.
Who’S It For? Fans of David Gordon Green who were confused about Your Highness, rejoice.
Read our ‘Prince Avalanche’ interview with writer/director David Gordon Green
Overall
While making feature films is hard (regardless of a tiny crew), with the notion of making a comedy is even more arduous, Prince Avalanche is a movie that never feels like it was over-thought. This is a film composed with natural talent that simply comes together.
The chemistry between Hirsch and Rudd is one that could easily be...
Directed by: David Gordon Green
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Paul Rudd
Running Time: 1 hr 34 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: August 16, 2013 (Chicago)
Plot: Two males, one of them a guy (Hirsch), the other a man (Rudd), work on a Texas highway in the summer. Unknowingly bonded by their own ignorance, they are detached from a civilization that includes girls, wives, and general familial responsibility.
Who’S It For? Fans of David Gordon Green who were confused about Your Highness, rejoice.
Read our ‘Prince Avalanche’ interview with writer/director David Gordon Green
Overall
While making feature films is hard (regardless of a tiny crew), with the notion of making a comedy is even more arduous, Prince Avalanche is a movie that never feels like it was over-thought. This is a film composed with natural talent that simply comes together.
The chemistry between Hirsch and Rudd is one that could easily be...
- 8/16/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Director David Gordon Green’s endearing and offbeat comedy/drama Prince Avalanche is a remake of the 2011 Icelandic film Either Way. It’s about two men, Alvin and Lance (Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsh) who paint traffic lines and install reflector poles on scorched Texas back roads. Lance is in his early 20’s and obsessed with getting laid while Alvin is older, far more hardworking and conservative in his outlook on life. The pair walk and walk and walk, spraying paint and pounding poles. They push a wheelbarrow and drive a tiny truck. Sometimes Lance listens to hard rock music on the radio (it takes place in 1987) while other times Alvin listens to German language instruction tapes to prepare for an upcoming trip. Occasionally they speak to each other, mostly about Alvin’s girlfriend back home who happens to be Lance’s sister. Against this stark setting, the men, who have little in common,...
- 8/16/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Explosions in the Sky recently teamed with David Wingo to score David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche. To promote the film—and the band’s soundtrack—the band’s label, Temporary Residence Ltd., has released a video that shows the creation of a mural of Esteban Rey’s album artwork. The four-minute time-lapse video spans the entire three-day process in Brooklyn and is backed by a song from the film called “Send Off.” Watch the video above, and read our review of Explosion and Wingo’s soundtrack to Prince Avalanche here....
- 8/13/2013
- Pastemagazine.com
As initially chaotic as the career choices of David Gordon Green appear, it should also be noted that the director maintains a consistent roster of collaborators. His latest film, “Prince Avalanche” starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, features much of the same crew from Green's “George Washington” days, and one of them—composer David Wingo—even scored his student short film. It's a loyal group of talent, and so it is with little surprise that Green will tackle a new curveball project with regulars, while hinting at a few intriguing others. Having shot to prominence via his longtime work with Green and more recent efforts with Jeff Nichols (“Take Shelter,” “Mud”), David Wingo contributes another excellent, emotional score to “Prince Avalanche” (in stores as of yesterday) with help from instrumental rockers Explosions In The Sky. It's not the first time the two entities have played together (they've also released albums under the.
- 8/7/2013
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Here's the latest Austin and Texas film news.
A bevy of movies about Austin cyclist Lance Armstrong are slated for theatrical releases in the next year or so, Austin Business Journal reports. Paramount Pictures has hired J.J. Abrams to direct a Bradley Cooper-fronted flick, while Warner Bros. is moving ahead with a project from the perspective of Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton. Stephen Frears (High Fidelity) is also set to direct a biopic starring Ben Foster, with a documentary by Sony Pictures Classics rounding out the front.The full soundtrack for SXSW 2013 feature Prince Avalanche (Elizabeth's review) is available online, according to Entertainment Weekly. Post-rockers Explosions in the Sky teamed up with fellow Austinite David Wingo to score the Bastrop-shot film, written and directed by Austinite David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express). The Prince Avalanche soundtrack will be available for purchase Tuesday, in anticipation of the movie's theatrical release this Friday.
A bevy of movies about Austin cyclist Lance Armstrong are slated for theatrical releases in the next year or so, Austin Business Journal reports. Paramount Pictures has hired J.J. Abrams to direct a Bradley Cooper-fronted flick, while Warner Bros. is moving ahead with a project from the perspective of Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton. Stephen Frears (High Fidelity) is also set to direct a biopic starring Ben Foster, with a documentary by Sony Pictures Classics rounding out the front.The full soundtrack for SXSW 2013 feature Prince Avalanche (Elizabeth's review) is available online, according to Entertainment Weekly. Post-rockers Explosions in the Sky teamed up with fellow Austinite David Wingo to score the Bastrop-shot film, written and directed by Austinite David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express). The Prince Avalanche soundtrack will be available for purchase Tuesday, in anticipation of the movie's theatrical release this Friday.
- 8/5/2013
- by Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Slackerwood
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