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Owain Paciuszko 20th July 2009
The Box is one of the films I am most looking forward to this year. The premise (from a Matheson short story and Twilight Zone episode) is wonderful, the cast is good and the trailer is very intriguing.
Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko – despite naysayers – is a truly original and fantastic film that deserved to be a huge cult breakthrough.
The director’s cut however is an absolute shambles, the additions are pointless (especially the book of time travel pages) and the changes to the soundtrack superfluous and not as good as the original choices!
Southland Tales, Kelly’s next film, was a confused, well-intentioned mess. It has some great parts, and it is a consistently curious bad film (I saw it at the cinema, apologised to everyone who went with me, but still ended up buying it on DVD and have re-watched it many times). Sean William Scott is a revelation in it, it’s probably Dwayne Johnson’s best film to date (not saying much). But alongside some wonderful sequences are some head-slappingly bad ones, and occasionally Kelly seems to sabotage a brilliant moment, the rather excellently orchestrated ending is scuppered by weird voice-over.
Anyway, The Box has a strong concept and hopefully Kelly will produce a smart, exciting and offbeat thriller.
Sledge 20th July 2009
Has The Arcade Fire being involved with the sound/music?
I heard rumours…
Owain Paciuszko 22nd July 2009
Three of Arcade Fire’s members are doing the music, if you squint at the credits you can see their names. Moby ended up doing an extremely dull job on his score for Southland Tales though, oddly his music was one of the things that – for me – suffocated the life out of that film, it was a bit too Vangelis-esque when it probably should’ve gone more arch.
Win 22nd July 2009
Hi everyone. Hope you are having a great spring…
[J]ust to let you all know that (internet-based fact checking aside) Arcade Fire is NOT doing the soundtrack to any film. We are all off for the summer, writing songs, reading books, and keeping our plants alive. Regine, Owen Pallet and I may do an instrumental piece or two for Richard Kelly’s new movie…we met at a show this year and hit it off, but we are not planning on doing any major work for a while, and this would not constitute a soundtrack or release.
Can’t wait for all you non-music stealers to hear the new Wolf Parade record, and that Jay Reatard record keeps getting better with every listen!