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The Best Film Scores of 2013
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 […] More
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Sound On Sight Podcast #378: Best of 2013
2013 is dead; long live 2013. To memorialize a year that wasn’t short on contentious debate in the film world, Josh Spiegel, Simon Howell and Edgar Chaput take a moment to identify what they believed to be the tall trees in that forest, selecting their respective Top 5s (with next to no overlap!), honourable mentions, […] More
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Best Movie Scores of 2013 (Mix Tape) **Explicit**
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 […] More
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Staff List: The 30 Best Films of 2013
As with any year, some people have begun arguing that 2013 was a bad year for film, because of the expected glut of effects-heavy blockbusters that litter the multiplexes each summer, or because there was a lack of auteur-driven storytelling for the majority of the year. Though it is indeed frustrating that studios hold their […] More
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‘Elysium’ and ‘Only God Forgives’ Sordid Cinema Podcast #63
Here at Sound on Sight (and, by extension, Sordid Cinema), we often complain about the faceless, semi-identical blockbusters that ruin our moviegoing experiences for much of the summer and make us wish we’d stick off the beaten path for good. But a few years back, writer-director Neil Blomkamp managed to stick out from the pack […] More
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‘Only God Forgives’ a bizarre, excessively gory reunion for Refn and Gosling
Style oozes from every frame of Only God Forgives, tinged in red, like the blood that so frequently sprays across the screen and lands in artfully designed splatters. Writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling, reuniting after the cult success of 2011’s Drive, have collaborated on a truly baffling, bizarre, and gory crime drama that’s wall-to-wall striking, pretty images. Unlike Drive, however, Only God Forgives is hollow underneath all the model-like posturing and the flashes of excessive, gratuitous violence. More
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Watch a new clip from Nicolas Winding Refn’s Palme d’Or contender ‘Only God Forgives’
The Weinstein Co. has released yet another clip for director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Palme d’Or contender Only God Forgives, which premiered at Cannes this morning and opens stateside July 19. This is the fourth clips so far released. You can watch the other three here. Enjoy! [callout] Julian (Gosling) lives in exile in Bangkok where […] More
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Watch three Gorgeous Clips From Cannes Palme d’Or contender ‘Only God Forgives’
The Weinstein Co. has released clips for director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Palme d’Or contender Only God Forgives, which premieres in Cannes on Wednesday and opens stateside July 19. The six minutes + of footage seen in these clips demonstrate that the auteur’s latest will contain, among other things, gorgeous visuals (courtesy of Bronson cinematographer Larry […] More
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Watch Three Stylish Clips From ‘Only God Forgives’
A trio of new clips for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives has been released online. These three clips really don’t disappoint and from what we’ve seen so far, Nicolas Winding Refn seems to have outdone himself once again, topping the hyper-beautiful, hyper-violent world he created in Drive. Directed by Winding Refn and co-starring Vithaya […] More
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New poster for Bangkok-set thriller ‘Only God Forgives’
A new teaser poster for director Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling second collaboration has been released online at Entertainment Weekly. Featuring a cool neon dragon logo and the tagline “time to meet the devil”, it’s great to see a different and more creative poster for the film. Most of the promotional material for the […] More
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‘Only God Forgives’, the newest collaboration between Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling, releases a red band trailer
While Nicholas Winding Refn was steadily gaining attention in the film world for his Pusher trilogy and Bronson, which also brought Tom Hardy to the attention of film fans, it was the 2011 feature Drive had brought Refn the most acclaim of his career. With Ryan Gosling as the nameless protagonist, the film ended up […] More
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