Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

News

The first major film festival of the year is going to be presented a bit differently this year, and Sonic Cinema will be bringing it to you from Georgia. This is my first Sundance Film Festival, and it seems like it’s going to be a great, week-long program of films from around the world, covering a wide variety of subjects. I’m going to do my best to hit all of […]

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I don’t know that it was the most formative year for me when it came to movies, but 1996 was a year that would shape how I would watch movies, and discuss them, in the years to come. With us being 25 years away from that year, I thought it would be good to look back at that year, the movies I love from it, and what it means to […]

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Sonic Cinema Podcast

This is an episode that requires a bit more of an introduction than I normally give podcast episodes. Back in 2021, I wrote about what it was like watching the movies with my mother that she wanted to watch. When I made that post, I didn’t expect to be rushing her into assisted living after a hospital visit a few months later. With her dementia progressing, I knew it was […]

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As we’ve moved through the podcast, and guesting on podcasts, I’ve realized a lot of what I focus on in terms of these discussions are things and movies that I really want to talk about, and with people I want to talk about them with. We are at that point with a film that is one of my very favorites about the struggle to create. It is Spike Jonze’s “Adaptation.”, […]

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