The new Music Supervisor category this Emmy season finally honors the supervisor’s creative contribution to narrative storytelling and music aesthetic: Licensing songs that are appropriately iconic and emotionally resonant, while touting some of the hottest new talent.
Here are the nominees: Thomas Golubic (“Better Call Saul” — “Sunk Costs”), Susan Jacobs (“Big Little Lies” — “You Get What You Need”), Manish Raval, Jonathan Leahy, Tom Wolfe (“Girls”— “Goodbye Tour”), Zach Cowie, Kerri Drootin (“Master of None” — “Amarsi Un Po”), and Nora Felder (“Stranger Things” — “Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street”).
The results included three female supervisors (Jacobs, Drootin, and Felder) and demonstrated the brand power of HBO (“Big Little Lies,” “Girls”) and Netflix (“Master of None,” “Stranger Things”). But in the end, it came down to a battle of dueling playlists.
“Better Call Saul” — “Sunk Costs”
In the third season of the “Breaking Bad” prequel, Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) gets...
Here are the nominees: Thomas Golubic (“Better Call Saul” — “Sunk Costs”), Susan Jacobs (“Big Little Lies” — “You Get What You Need”), Manish Raval, Jonathan Leahy, Tom Wolfe (“Girls”— “Goodbye Tour”), Zach Cowie, Kerri Drootin (“Master of None” — “Amarsi Un Po”), and Nora Felder (“Stranger Things” — “Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street”).
The results included three female supervisors (Jacobs, Drootin, and Felder) and demonstrated the brand power of HBO (“Big Little Lies,” “Girls”) and Netflix (“Master of None,” “Stranger Things”). But in the end, it came down to a battle of dueling playlists.
“Better Call Saul” — “Sunk Costs”
In the third season of the “Breaking Bad” prequel, Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) gets...
- 7/21/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Directors: Ben Chace, Sam Fleischner Writers: Ben Chace, Sam Fleischner Starring: Sean Bones, Norah Jones, Carl Bradshaw, Kevin Bewersdorf, Mark Gibbs The story -- not of the film itself but of its conception -- goes that Ben Chace won a cruise to Jamaica in a raffle and he invited his childhood friend Sam Fleischner along for the vacation. Chace and Fleischner, both young filmmakers, decided to turn the trip into their next film project. Two additional cruise tickets were purchased for their actor Sean Bones and audio guy/actor Kevin Bewersdorf. The foursome sailed for one week; then, once in Jamaica, they were joined by producer Katina Hubbard for two weeks of production. The narrative of Wah Do Dem starts off quite similarly. Brooklyn hipster Max (Sean Bones) recently won a cruise for two to Jamaica. His plan was to take his girlfriend Willow (Norah Jones, in an all too brief cameo) along with him.
- 1/18/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The Maid (15)
(Sebastián Silva, 2009, Chile) Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola. 96 mins
Less a slice of upstairs-downstairs realism than a black comedy that threatens to turn into a horror movie, this Chilean drama has been scooping awards across the globe, mostly for Saavedra's acting. She's a bravely monstrous creation, a long-suffering help whose resentments rise to the boil, particularly when a younger assistant is foisted on her. But just when we're ready to write her off, this agile, low-budget drama turns it round and confronts us with our own heartlessness. That's us served.
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (12A)
(Edgar Wright, 2010 Us) Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong. 112 mins
This tireless tale of modern loserdom, filtered through pop-culture consciousness, will push the buttons of younger fans, with its onslaught of music/comic book/videogame tricks and hipster humour. Older viewers may need a lie down.
The Girl Who Played With Fire (15)
(Daniel Alfredson,...
(Sebastián Silva, 2009, Chile) Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola. 96 mins
Less a slice of upstairs-downstairs realism than a black comedy that threatens to turn into a horror movie, this Chilean drama has been scooping awards across the globe, mostly for Saavedra's acting. She's a bravely monstrous creation, a long-suffering help whose resentments rise to the boil, particularly when a younger assistant is foisted on her. But just when we're ready to write her off, this agile, low-budget drama turns it round and confronts us with our own heartlessness. That's us served.
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (12A)
(Edgar Wright, 2010 Us) Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong. 112 mins
This tireless tale of modern loserdom, filtered through pop-culture consciousness, will push the buttons of younger fans, with its onslaught of music/comic book/videogame tricks and hipster humour. Older viewers may need a lie down.
The Girl Who Played With Fire (15)
(Daniel Alfredson,...
- 8/27/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
If you’re a budding filmmaker with the good fortune to have won a cruise ticket what do you do? The answer is Wah Do Dem, a mumblecore odyssey written and directed by Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner.
We follow Max, played by Sean Bones, as he boards a cruise after his girlfriend (his intended cruisemate) dumps him and the film tracks his journey all the way to Jamaica, where things go wrong. That’s pretty much it. What the film gets right are some beautifully captured moments of emotional angst, though these are almost lost between the languid trawl of characters and locations, all pointing to some deeper meaning, but rarely attaining it.
Bones does nothing (deliberately I’m sure) to engage the audience and there is a tangible void between Max and us, something which the film suffers from as the tumultuous events, and Max’s trials to overcome them,...
We follow Max, played by Sean Bones, as he boards a cruise after his girlfriend (his intended cruisemate) dumps him and the film tracks his journey all the way to Jamaica, where things go wrong. That’s pretty much it. What the film gets right are some beautifully captured moments of emotional angst, though these are almost lost between the languid trawl of characters and locations, all pointing to some deeper meaning, but rarely attaining it.
Bones does nothing (deliberately I’m sure) to engage the audience and there is a tangible void between Max and us, something which the film suffers from as the tumultuous events, and Max’s trials to overcome them,...
- 8/27/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Norah Jones appears in this indie feature you probably missed called, "Wah Do Dem," (which is Jamaican Patois for "What they do"), her first since 2007's "My Blueberry Nights." She plays the girlfriend of a young Brooklyn musician played by young Brooklyn musician, Sean Bones, in this Caribbean misadventure.
Jones dumps Bones just days before they're due to set sail on one of those huge floating malls called cruise ships, bound for Jamaica. His friends blow him out too and, finding no one else to accompany him, he sets out alone. If you've ever been on one of these monuments to excess before, you know what an unromantic mistake that is. I'll let the official synopsis take over from there:
Over the course of several days he flirts with the staff photographer, drinks cocktails with the boat's celebrity juggler and has several strange encounters with the only other loner. When...
Jones dumps Bones just days before they're due to set sail on one of those huge floating malls called cruise ships, bound for Jamaica. His friends blow him out too and, finding no one else to accompany him, he sets out alone. If you've ever been on one of these monuments to excess before, you know what an unromantic mistake that is. I'll let the official synopsis take over from there:
Over the course of several days he flirts with the staff photographer, drinks cocktails with the boat's celebrity juggler and has several strange encounters with the only other loner. When...
- 8/22/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
I'd rather be water boarded than take a va cation on one of those giant cruise ships. The idea of being trapped at sea on a vessel full of aging, overweight Middle America-types fills me with dread. These thoughts flashed through my mind as I watched "Wah Do Dem," in which Max (Sean Bones), a 20-something Brooklyn hipster, takes such a trip. He won two tickets for the cruise to Jamaica, but his girlfriend, Willow (Norah Jones, in a cameo), ditches him at the last minute,...
- 6/18/2010
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
With Jamaica in the American news again (just barely) due to the ongoing siege and popular counter resistance taking place surrounding the attempted U.S. extradition of alleged Jamaican drug kingpin and folk hero Christopher Coke, perhaps there is something timely about the release of Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner’s Wah Do Dem. A winner at last year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, it stars Sean Bones, a first time actor, as Max, an archetypal Williamsburg Hipster – he’s a skinny, aloof, very pale, self-consciously smug, skateboard riding dufus who attempts to take his girlfriend (Norah Jones) on a cruise to Jamaica. When she breaks up with him before he gets the chance, he’s stuck with a pair of tickets and no one...
- 6/16/2010
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
London Film Festival: Lessons in Love Dear Lemon Lima, dir Suzi Yoonessi Wah Do Dem dir Sam Fleischner/Ben Chace A Thing Called Love (shorts programme) Today's lesson is all about love: the things we we do, etc. Poor Vanessa Lemor (l'amour—get it?). All she wanted when she entered Nichols High School was to maintain the affections of her beloved, geeky Philip Georgey. But, alas, Philip is a social climber and rejects her, leaving poor Vanessa (Savanah Wiltfong) to her dreams and her diary entries, addressed to Dear Lemon Lima, [1].... Fear not, though, as Vanessa gathers the assorted Fubar (F_ed Up Beyond All Recognition) geeks in the school and sets out to beat Philip at his own game in the (well, it is Alaska) Snowstorm Survival competition. Atypical of this kind of Revenge of the Nerds scenario, the setting is used to good effect in highlighting co-optation of indigenous culture,...
- 10/17/2009
- by Val
- SoundOnSight
Dave here, noting that I've hardly been the best guest blogger around, but I've got the three of diamonds up my sleeve and now's the time to play it. (Assuming we're playing snap and you played the three of spades.) Next week sees the start of the London Film Festival, and I'll be reporting from the front line, so to speak, mixing up the big show-offs with little treasures (or disasters) from the selection of British and other smaller films on offer. Press screenings have already been going on, which is why I'm here now with my first round-up.
Easily the most notable of those I've seen so far is Werner Herzog's completely left-field remake of Bad Lieutenant, which shows off its flamboyant impulses right from the elongated title, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I had every intention of watching the original beforehand, but time ran away from me,...
Easily the most notable of those I've seen so far is Werner Herzog's completely left-field remake of Bad Lieutenant, which shows off its flamboyant impulses right from the elongated title, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I had every intention of watching the original beforehand, but time ran away from me,...
- 10/9/2009
- by Dave
- FilmExperience
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