Jeff Toyne’s third film score for writer / director Leah Walker (after the short The Knockout and prior feature film The Third Eye) is an eerie, silky orchestral score pretty much bereft of brass instruments and overt electronics. Toyne’s strengths are in creating very precise moods using strong themes, and the music of The Privileged is anchored to a moving piece which lends itself to utterly bleak presentations…
Part 3 of the sporadic series The Car In Motion focuses on Ron Howard’s surprisingly solid racing drama Rush (Universal), documenting the intense rivalry between Formula 1 racers Niki Lauda and James Hunt.
What’s remarkable about Rush is although the racing scenes really don’t evolve into extended montages until the end, the drama as scripted by Peter Morgan (Frost / Nixon, The Queen) is rock solid, especially the dialogue, which captures the attitude and nastiness of rival racers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl)…
Head’s up on Hot Docs 2014, All the King’s Men arrives on Blu via Twilight Time, and some thoughts on Louisiana’s Huey Long and our own Mayor Bozo – Rob Ford – as the race to become Bigwig of Toronto begins in earnest.
Robert Rossen’s film adaptation reportedly drifts a little from the narrative of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the rise and terminal fall of corrupt Louisiana Governor Willie Stark…
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