Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

With the coming of DragonCon this weekend, my movie summer ends. Here is a brief video summary where I, for the fifth or sixth time today, inexplicably forgot to single out Bo Burnham’s delightful “Eighth Grade”- with Elise Fisher in my favorite performance of the year- as well as Jeremiah Kipp’s terrific short film, “Slapface,” […]

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Hello readers and listeners! It’s my distinct pleasure today to welcome a couple of close friends to the podcast in Jeffrey Butzer and Mathew Timms, a couple of close friends whom I share affinity for film music and filmmaking with, and whom join me in a compelling discussion on the career of David Lynch, especially […]

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It was in 1997 when I first watched Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and while it did not have the immediate intellectual impact other films have had, it was nonetheless a stimulating, and inspiring, experience when I watched it on VHS. It was unlike any other film I had seen, and it cast an […]

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Hello readers and listeners! This week, I’m pleased to offer you an interview with a director whose work I’ve come to know over the past few years. Some of his shorts have included “Pickup,” “Berenice” and “Slapface,” but it’s his feature film, “Black Wake,” that has made an impression this year, and it is to […]

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