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Soundtrack Reviews
Soundtrack reviews for Bill Brown’s Brother’s Keeper (MovieScore Media), Mateo Messina’s Butter, Brian Byrne’s The Good Doctor, Craig Armstrong’s In Time (all Lakeshore Records), and Nathan Johnson’s Looper (Cut Narrative / La-La-Land).
Packaged Goods and Fall / Winter TIFF Bell Lightbox Highlights!
Quick review of this past Wednesday’s Packaged Goods: The Evolution of the Music Video, and highlights of the Fall / Winter programmes at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Besides Bond there’s Indian Expressionism (Lang!), other spy films (Puppet on a Chain!), post-apocalyptic dystopian nihilism (Logan’s Run!), zombies, slashers, opera, exhibits, and many other great films on Fridays & Saturdays I won’t be able to see.
Detroit on the Big Screen
Editorial blather plus Reviews of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia (2012), which screened at HotDocs this year and finally gets its theatrical run in Toronto at The Bloor alongside a related doc by Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit? (2010), made for the BBC.
Soundtrack News & Reviews
Reviews of BSX Records’ well-done re-recording of Vangelis’ Blade Runner score + Cliff Martinez’ Arbitrage (Milan Records), and quick soundtrack news.
The Mystique of Denmark’s The Killing / Forbrydelsen
Review of the Danish TV series The Killing / Forbrydelsen: Season 1, which U.S. network AMC recently remade with very mixed results. Søren Sveistrup’s 3-season series is superb, and Sophie Gråbøl found the role of her career as divorced single mom Det. Lund in this lengthy ode to complex, infuriating and addictive detective thrillers.
Hiss (and Boo)!
Reviews of Hisss (2010), Jennifer Chambers Lynch’s disastrous Bollywood supernatural shocker, and an expanded review of Penny Vozniak’s making-of documentary Despite the Gods (2012), which screened in April at HotDocs. Also included: excerpts from the audience Q&A with director Vozniak.
One Last Buh-Buh Bah-Boo
Some quick TIFF Bell Lightbox news, and a review of Twilight Time’s High Time (1960), one of Bing Crosby’s last major roles during the sixties, co-starring a bevy of young snots including Fabian, Tuesday Weld, Yvonne Craig, and Richard Beymer.
Bobby Johnston – Scoring the Independents
Podcast with composer Bobby Johnston (Mother’s Day, No Impact Man: The Documentary), who discusses his preference for using acoustic instruments, and working with iconic independent filmmakers such as Stuart Gordon.
Fascist Visions
A salute to fascism on screen – via The Hunger Games (Alliance / Lionsgate) and Anchor Bay’s Battle Royale: The Complete Collection – plus new images of North Korea’s Ruygyong Hotel, aka The Hotel of Doom, aka the Ugliest Building in the World!
William Faulkner on film, Sam Sniderman passes away
Film reviews of The Sound and the Fury (Twilight Time) on Blu and The Long, Hot Summer (Fox) on DVD, each based on material by impenetrable writer William Faulkner, plus news of Sam Sniderman’s passing – bigwig of Sam the Recordman
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