Although director Alan Hicks mentioned in a DVD interview his desire to release a 2-CD soundtrack album, the disc + bonus material in this release more than satisfy the need to hear all of the material featured in his stellar documentary on jazz legend Clark Terry…
James Newton Howard’s approach to the story of a cameraman racing to gory accidents and bloody suburban violence is very subtle but quite clever, with some great sonic homages to his classic use of electronic pulses…
In Part 2 of Vinyl Docs, I’ve cherry-picked and reviewed a few notable short films on record collecting & selling (all available on Vimeo and / or YouTube) + a trio of archival RCA industrial films on how vinyl records are made, circa 1948, 1956, and 1958.
Reviews of two instant cult movies – Nightcrawler (Elevation Pictures) and John Wick (eOne / Summit).
Dan Gilroy’s tale of Lou Bloom, a sleazy after hours cameraman who races to traumatic scenes to shoot gory footage of dead / dying victims of car crashes, gunplay, or home invasions has some trouble settling into a specific tone; it never matures into a suspense drama, action film, or black comedy, but what grounds Nightcrawler is Jake Gyllenhaal, who dropped serious pounds and looks like a starving, wide-eyed rodent…
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