What an amazing and surprising night. 6000 members of the Academy, I take everything back, it ain’t all about the Benjamins for y’all. The Hurt Locker deservedly swept the awards for best picture, best director, screenplay, editing, sound and sound mixing. My interview with Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal can be found here, and have [...]
Great interview with The Hurt Locker sound designer Paul Ottosson up at the ever-brilliant Making Of site, love that his BAFTA is up on the mantelpiece. Been back and forth with Paul a few times, but hoping to have my own interview with him up here shortly.
Excellent piece over at Vanity Fair, with clips from all of the scores nominated for the Oscars this year. Here’s some samples, Beltrami and Sanders score for Hurt Locker recently released on CD…
Mr. Fox in the Fields - Alexan…
Discombobulate - Hans Zimmer
Carl Goes Up - Michael Giacchi…
Jake’s first flight - James Ho…
First look at the Dublab crate digging project, looks great, can’t wait. Here’s how the crew describe it “Secondhand Sureshots is a filmed experiment in creative sound recycling. Dublab directors Bryan “Morpho” Younce & Mark “frosty” McNeill sent beatmakers Daedelus, Nobody, J.Rocc and Ras G on safari into L.A. thrift stores with orders to make [...]
Finally get to follow up The Men Who Stare at Goats premiere and Q&A where I spent a day with Jon Ronson (click for more Jon Ronson) way back in November, with a slightly more formal interview, feature placed with Clash to run in April. 2010 is turning into a good year for interviews; Shire [...]
Reviewing The Thick of It boxed set and Merry Gentlemen for next issue of Clash, on sale May.
Not quite sure how the El Michels Affair passed me by, live performances of Wu Tang tracks by a funk crew on Truth and Soul. Got it now though, and its amazing - Shimmy Shimmy Ya…video is of a live performance from XM Studios, with Raekwon, Gza, Inspectah Deck, and U-God on the mix as [...]
A couple of great pieces on the politicisation of The Hurt Locker have surfaced post-BAFTA success. Vadim Rizov has a thoughtful piece at IFC.Com, and there’s an interesting response by Chuck Tryon here. There’s been quite a lot written about the film’s lack of politics, though this has muddled the lack of an explicit statement [...]
Sweet new Gondry promo, very simple, nicely choreographed - bitten from the superfly spotters at Shook mag.
As part of my research for the Presidents at the Movies book, I’ve read a few studies of life in post-occupation Iraq. Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s in depth account of his exeperiences in the Green Zone are terrifying; mispent funds, disorganisation and a politic driven entirely by the needs of the Bush administration (particularly relating to a [...]
