Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

News

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 doing our own review book, entitled “Why Is the Rabbit Wearing Sunglasses?” (Anyone who’s seen […]

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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) change drastically- were the ones that found the toughest emotional truths and embodied a spirit […]

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Sonic Cinema Podcast

Hello readers and listeners! I’m excited to have a new episode of the Sonic Cinema Podcast for you, and like the previous one, it’s an in-depth look at a particular film with a guest. The guest this time is one of my favorite fellow nerds, Marv Dickey, and he and I are discussing the short film, “The House on Oak Street”, which he suggested to me for a watch and […]

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Hello readers and listeners! I’m pleased to announce that the latest episode of the Sonic Cinema Podcast is now ready to go, and it’s a doozy. Today, I’m joined by filmmaker Chris Esper and we dive into Martin Scorsese’s trilogy of faith with “The Last Temptation of Christ”, “Kundun” and “Silence”. I hope you enjoy! Episode 15- Chris Esper and I on Scorsese’s Faith Trilogy Viva La Resistance! Brian Skutle […]

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