As the Oscar hype machine keeps rollin’ I am glad to see coverage on almost all the nominees. Though its hard to keep up with all of it, so if I miss anything of note, please feel free to email me links!
THE WATER HORSE
- Has two videos covering James Newton Howard’s work on the film that I missed.
THE WELLAND TRIBUNE
- Stops re-recording mixer David Giammarco in his tracks to talk about his work on “3:10 to Yuma”.
MIRAMAX
- On January 27th Miramax helped bring together the sound team for “No Country For Old Men” to the Harmony Gold Theater in Hollywood. After showing a few clips from the film, moderator Spike Jonze asked Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Craig Berkey, and Peter F. Kurland along with The Coen’s about their work. In addition to talk about the role thats score had in the film, the filmmakers reveled the shot on-set the voice-over by Tommy Lee Jones was favored in the mix over any of the looped reads. Read more HERE.
- A few film critics and bloggers (though a little off the mark about how much music was actually in the film) get and A for effort discussing the sound for “No Country” in THIS PODCAST.
(click below to listen to an excerpt)
PARAMOUNT VANTAGE
- On Feb 2nd seven time Oscar winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom, currently a director at Pixar Animation Studios, hosted a screening of “There Will Be Blood” with former Skywalker Sound protégés. Sadly, all I have from the screening is this picture, please send any coverage my way!
THE FILM EXPERIENCE
- “Transformers” effects re-recording mixer Greg Russell talks about working with director John Waters and of course giant robots.
(click below to listen to an excerpt)