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7 April 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

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Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead's lovable multi-instrumentalist, turned heads with his score for Paul Thomas Anderson's austere critical favorite, "There Will Be Blood." Immediately upon the film's opening scene, Greenwood's orchestration inflames the parched western landscape, superheating it with a man and his struggle to extract a profit from it. Greenwood uses an array of strings to strike an incredibly enormous, unsettling chord, the effect of which is to fuse the two -- the man and that broken landscape -- as it builds into an alarming cacophony. From this, the character of Daniel Plainview is forged, without a lick of dialogue or any emotive gestures. Nor is there a particularly distinct costume or a queerly menacing haircut involved. Just wordless deliberate action in a barren place, moved expertly along by a score that seems so well-crafted for the particulars of the story that it's surprising to recall some of it was »

- Brandon Kim

2 April 2009 7:45 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »

Photography is to commence on 'Vincent: Questioning The Method' a character study of painter Vincent Van Gogh by Irish actor Stuart Dunne (The Van) with filming to begin on 20th May until 30th July in and around the town of Portlaoise. The film will be based on painter Van Gogh who, having arrived in the small French town of Auvers-sur-Oise on the 20th May, 1890, painted profusely for seventy days creating over eighty-nine finished oil paintings, as well as countless sketches and watercolors. He also wrote almost daily to his associates and family, but mostly to his brother Theo. These letters provide an in depth historical first hand account from which actor Stuart Dunne will draw for the character study. »

2 articles from 2009