Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

News

Every ten years since 1952, the British magazine Sight & Sound has polled critics from around the world for their choices of the ten greatest films of all-time; in 1992, they began to poll directors as well. When you put together the two polls, they can give you tremendous insight into the way critics and filmmakers see movies similarly, and where they diverge. On December 1, we once again had […]

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Movies where people have to go through rehabilitation- usually physical rehab from an injury- don’t often deal as directly with the mental rehabilitation that goes into that, as well. We typically get glimpses of the traumatic event in flashback as a hint of what the character is going through mentally, but we don’t really live in that mindset with them. There’s nothing terribly cinematic about someone staring at a computer […]

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Sonic Cinema Podcast

**This podcast was recorded during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn’t exist. It’s time to discuss horror cinema, but let’s mix things up. My guest this episode you know- it’s Phil Fasso- but rather than our usual structure, we decided this year would be a good one for us to discuss the cinematic history of Dracula on […]

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**This podcast was recorded during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn’t exist. With so many unknown films right now, what does it mean to have Oscar buzz? Do any films actually have Oscar buzz? In a bit of a change from what I was planning, and what we typically do when it comes […]

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Music News

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, what I was able to accomplish this year, well, took me in some interesting directions […]

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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. Maybe that’s why it’s so fitting that Halloween comes on October 31… Since 2003, I’ve […]

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