KK 3,307 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Shore scored Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy, which is coming out on Netflix this December: https://filmmusicreporter.com/2020/09/07/howard-shore-scoring-deepa-mehtas-funny-boy/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 I read the novel Funny Boy back in college in 2006. Pretty good book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 But is it funny? Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,478 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Deepa Mehta movies almost always have great scores, so looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted November 2, 2020 Author Share Posted November 2, 2020 It's a good book, but the film production seems deeply problematic though. It's a story about a Tamil boy negotiating his queerness against a climate of Tamil oppression during the Sri Lankan civil war/riots...but there's not a single Tamil person in the cast. It's also been selected as this year's Canadian submission for the Oscar race (because it was made with a lot of government funding). The whole thing reeks of Mehta exploiting an entire cultural people/crisis for regaining neoliberal relevance and marketability... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 7 minutes ago, KK said: It's a good book, but the film production seems deeply problematic though. It's a story about a Tamil boy negotiating his queerness against a climate of Tamil oppression during the Sri Lankan civil war/riots...but there's not a single Tamil person in the cast. No, but they have actors. gkgyver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,478 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 2 hours ago, KK said: It's also been selected as this year's Canadian submission for the Oscar race (because it was made with a lot of government funding). The whole thing reeks of Mehta exploiting an entire cultural people/crisis for regaining neoliberal relevance and marketability... That's awfully cynical. I don't see it that way. She's always been concerned with social exclusion and the meeting points between politics, sexuality, class and race. It seems to be perfectly in line with her previous movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted November 2, 2020 Author Share Posted November 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: No, but they have actors. Wrong. Try again. 7 minutes ago, Thor said: That's awfully cynical. I don't see it that way. She's always been concerned with social exclusion and the meetings points between politics, sexuality, class and race. It seems to be perfectly in line with her previous movies. Topically, sure. The story is ripe with all the usual themes she has tackled in the past, and I don't mind her telling the story. But from what I hear from some people in the production, and what I see in casting decisions and whatnot, there seems to be an insensitivity to the very violent historical and political context of Sri Lanka. It looks like she's speaking to a persecuted people's experience as an outsider, catering it to the Western gaze, without really a deeper consultation with said people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 11 minutes ago, KK said: Wrong. Try again. It's not a documentary, as far as I know. Chen G. and gkgyver 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 hour ago, KK said: It's a good book, but the film production seems deeply problematic though. It's a story about a Tamil boy negotiating his queerness against a climate of Tamil oppression during the Sri Lankan civil war/riots...but there's not a single Tamil person in the cast. It's also been selected as this year's Canadian submission for the Oscar race (because it was made with a lot of government funding). The whole thing reeks of Mehta exploiting an entire cultural people/crisis for regaining neoliberal relevance and marketability... Congratulations, you finally found out how Hollywood works. Now maybe you'll eventually realize how you're baited into an artificial culture war. Chen G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Coming from HOWE RECORDS, Friday December 11th 1 Arjie 2 Radha Aunty 3 Anuradhapura Station 4 Jegan 5 Red Sari 6 Riot Journal 7 Leaving Sri Lanka TOTAL TIME - 21:54 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondheim 1,157 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 That album presentation looks like it may just be amazing. I love a nice tight little score KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, blondheim said: That album presentation looks like it may just be amazing. I love a nice tight little score Amen. I prefer more of these over the meandering hour-long releases we get these days. blondheim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,478 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Indeed. Nothing but thumbs up from me. It remains to be seen if the music itself holds up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondheim 1,157 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 It does, but it's Shore, so I have confidence. I don't like everything he does, but quite a lot it --chances are good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 It's fascinating that I can never really tell which films Howard Shore would be likely to score, but each time he's announced for a movie, I say "of course!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondheim 1,157 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Maybe not Twilight: Eclipse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Up on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/6IcKD7iOViugsBt9IQxkyA?si=iK4PZT_MSiyfXzeWWuT39Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 So uh.... any JWFanners listened to this yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 9 minutes ago, Jay said: So uh.... any JWFanners listened to this yet? Some tracks from youtube, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 And what are your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 S'alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kühni 485 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Pleasant, but unremarkable. "Nobody's Nerakhoon" by way of "Hugo Light in the Spotlight of Denial". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 4 hours ago, Jay said: So uh.... any JWFanners listened to this yet? It's not much good. Shore on autopilot. The last track is all you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,478 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 9 hours ago, Jay said: So uh.... any JWFanners listened to this yet? I have. Alas, it didn't make much of an impression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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