Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

He’s not even done with one project and he’s starting a new one. Story of my creative life. I’ve been working on three different albums for years now. I have several pieces in various forms of completion. And then, there’s “Unwinnable Hand,” which crossed its’ five-year anniversary last September, still without a completed print. Well, […]

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Snooch to the Nooch! The title says it all. Actually, it doesn’t this year, but read on. The Oscars are on March 7 at 8pm EST this year, with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosting. Click here for my full pre-nomination selections list. Best Picture Oscar’s Final Ten “Up” “Precious” “Avatar” “Up in the Air” […]

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Ok, admittedly it’s a day later than I usually have this up, but with Oscar nominations out tomorrow morning, I gotta get it done. Here are Brian’s choices for what/who he would like to see nominated for an Oscar, not that it matters much. For those curious, still no “Invictus,” “The Blind Side,” “Nine,” “Crazy […]

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I’ll admit to being a bit stuck as to how to approach talking about my creative endeavors for the past year, which is part of the reason it’s a bit late. -No concerts of my music performed. -No albums released. -No completed short films. A lot of projects in a sort of limbo. That said, […]

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In 1996, I started writing about movies, doing little 100 word writeups for a reader section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I got my first of these published in the AJC in 1997 (by the time the feature ended in 2000, 62 had been published). In ’97-’98, my mother and I toyed with the idea of […]

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Last year, I decided to start a weekly blog, entitled “A Movie a Week.” Inspired by Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies” series and AICN’s Quint’s “A Movie a Day” (and later, “A Movie a Week”) series, I decided to look at older movies in my collection. Some, I had wanted to write about for a while […]

In all honesty, I’ve been working on this for about half the decade now; the funny thing is, so many of these films stuck so long- a true sense of their worth. For me, the best films of the past decade- the first of the 21st Century, one that has seen filmmaking (and film watching) […]

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This past month has shown just how odd things to get in October. The fall just began in September, but the air starts to get cold, the wind begins to breeze, and with the leaves falling off of the trees, those cloudy and rainy days just feel a bit more unnerving than they normally do. […]

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I don’t really write music reviews. I feel it’s a lot easier to watch a movie, and examine all it does right and what it does wrong. How do you do that for music? That said, when my friend and fellow composer Adam Scott Neal– whose website can be viewed through the link on his […]

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There are several things/events I have decided need to happen at some point in my cinematic and personal life. One that I’ve finally gotten out of the way was attending Atlanta’s own Dragon*Con, the fantasy/sci-fi/comic convention that takes place in the city over the Labor Day weekend. The convention has been on my radar since […]

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