Reply To: Talk about FILMS you’ve just seen!
I’m currently looking through media works scored by Daniel Lopatin (although I don’t know yet if the Q&A will happen in early April or not). So rewatching some films with his involvement. I’ve already listened through his studio albums, and watched his short films and exhibition films.
He was apparently involved in THE BLING RING, but couldn’t hear much score. It’s mostly songs curated by Coppola’s usual music guy Brian Reitzell. The film, sadly, wasn’t as involving this time as the first time I saw it. I found myself tuning out here and there. But Emma Watson is delightful in it.
PARTISAN (2015) was an oddity, a low budget, almost student-film-like parable on cults and child assassins with Vincent Cassel. Plus for idea and mise-en-scene, minus for some odd narrative choices.
GOOD TIME and UNCUT GEMS remain solid efforts; grit and neon in perfect harmony. Same with MARTY SUPREME.
Meanwhile, HURRY UP, TOMORROW (2025) was a silly vanity project for The Weeknd, directed by Tred Edward Shults of IT COMES AT NIGHT and KRISHA fame. I recently wrote a few sentences about it here.
THE LAST CRUISE (2021) was a fascinating fly-on-the-wall documentary from the early days of the covid outbreak.
Next up is “The Viewing” from the anthology series GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S CABINET OF CURIOUSITIES and the Ben Safdie series THE CURSE.