Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

Hello readers and listeners! For this episode, I’m pleased to present an interview I did recently with Jamison M. LoCascio and Adam Ambrosio. They are the filmmakers behind the YouTube channel Film Valor, and we discuss their feature-length films, “Sunset” and “The Depths.” I hope you enjoy! Episode 35- Interview with Film Valor on “Sunset” […]

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Hello all! You’ll notice some changes to Sonic Cinema, and one of the things this is going to allow me to do is to really start writing some commentary again since these blogs won’t get swallowed up with the podcast posts anymore. That being said, the first new addition to this is actually a video […]

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Hello readers and listeners! This was a bit of an impromptu episode, but I was hoping to have it happen at some point anyway, and I think you’ll like it. Today, I speak with filmmaker Christopher Maloney, who made a documentary that he’s been making the rounds with this year called “In God We Trump,” […]

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Hello readers and listeners! For our tenth episode of 2018, I’m please to have an interview for you with one of my very favorite filmmakers over the past few years, courtesy of his short films “Joke,” “Sea Change” and “Jay,” among others. He is Nickolas Duarte, and we have a lovely discussion about his work […]

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Hello readers and listeners, and Happy Star Wars Day! In celebration of this day, I’m pleased to present a very special treat, as myself, Ronnie Haynes and Daniel Green continue the discussion of the new “Star Wars” universe with our thoughts on Rian Johnson’s polarizing “The Last Jedi.” What makes this particularly special for me, […]

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Hello readers and listeners! In this new episode of the podcast, I take an in-depth, and personal, look at the evolution of a piece I composed in 1999, “In a Lonely Place,” and how it relates to the Alex Proyas film, “The Crow,” as well as the scores written for that film, and the sequel, […]

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It has been quite a while since I posted in this section. Four years, in fact. It is representative of the significant change in focus in my life, and in Sonic Cinema, since I was coming off of taking online courses through the Berklee College of Music for Film & TV Music composition. I’ve already […]

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Hello readers and listeners! In the newest episode of the Sonic Cinema Podcast for 2018, and the 30th episode overall, I have another filmmaker interview for you, this time with writer-director Christopher Di Nunzio, who has shown himself as one of the more versatile filmmakers I’ve gotten to watch over the years. I hope you […]

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In a first for Sonic Cinema, I have decided to share a teaser trailer for a film. My primary focus here is for commentary and film criticism, as well as interviews, but I decided to make an exception for “E-Bowla” because, well, it hasn’t been often that I’ve gotten a look at the filmmaking process […]

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Hello readers and listeners! In the latest episode, I continue a discussion a friend of mine from high school, Stuart Delony, began on his Snarky Faith Podcast about religiously-themed cinema by diving in to the controversies and influences of Mel Gibson’s 2004 epic, “The Passion of the Christ.” In addition to our talk for the […]

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