First Encounters: David Fincher
David Fincher centers me. Like Radiohead says, “everything in its right place.” I couldn’t have told you this a week or so ago, but an artist I’m interviewing put it just so. Putting it in my own words does nothing to diminish or unsettle its power. “I have a philosophy about the two extremes of […]
Jeff Beal’s House of Cards
Movies are not unlike children, in that they should be seen and not heard — meaning that if a movie’s soundtrack really works, you shouldn’t even notice it. Jeff Beal’s score is so well-integrated…that you might leave the theater without remembering a thing about the music. But the soundtrack holds up superbly on its own, and […]
