Category: Podcast – Director Specials
Sound on Sight Radio #279 – Classic Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Please note: (This show is long, longer than what we normally produce, but what can you do when you discuss such a talented filmmaker. I strongly suggest listening all the way to the very end, at which point we review … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #278: Terrence Malick / The Tree of Life, pt. 2
It’s been a couple of weeks since we first reviewed director Terrence Malick’s latest, the Palme d’Or-winning The Tree of Life, and since then it has rolled out to most decent cities, bringing with it a lively discussion about the … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #275: Errol Morris’s ‘First Person’
While we wait around to see his new film Tabloid (which, between our recording this episode and its publication, has a new trailer – see below), we thought it appropriate to take a look at Errol Morris’s First Person, the … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #271: Classic Directors: Sidney Lumet
A couple of weeks ago, we lost one of the longest-revered American directors around, Sidney Lumet, whose directorial career opened with a bang with 1957′s beloved 12 Angry Men, and ended fifty years later with the acclaimed crime drama Before … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #265: Classic Directors – Otto Preminger
In our second Classic Directors podcast, Derek, Justine and Simon take a look at the life and work of the prolific Otto Preminger, whose work often defied genre while touching on hot-button issues in a generally unforced manner. He first … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #261: Classic Directors: Preston Sturges
- With a distinct lack of interesting fare in this chunk of the year, we came up with the bright idea of highlighting the careers of directors never before discussed in Sound on Sight’s relatively long history. The first name … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #260: Director Mike Leigh Special / Oscar Talk
Another year, another Oscars – this time around, there seems to be an all-around consensus that it was a pretty dull affair this year. So we won’t take oo much of your time explaining why before we dive into a … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #252: David Cronenberg with Special Guests from FILMJUNK
ALL HAIL THE NEW FLESH! Our special guests this week, Sean and Jay from the Film Junk Podcast, hail St-Catharine’s, Ontario, not far from Toronto so it seemed to make sense to revisit the man who may be Toronto’s most … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #251: Director Sofia Coppola
For our first show from our new studio in a secret location in the heart of downtown Montreal, we’ve decided to tackle one of Amer-indie-dom’s most divisive director, Sofia Coppola, by talking about her new flick, the Stephen Dorff (?!) … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #249: Director John Cameron Mitchell
For an hour Ricky D has been breathlessly waiting years to do, he and Simon take on director John Cameron Mitchell’s brief but already incredibly diverse filmography: 2001′s trans-glam musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2006′s unsimulated-sex-infused melodrama Shortbus, and … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #244: Director Darren Aronofsky Part 2
Writer-Director Darren Aronofsky has been a constant fixture here at Sound on Sight; two years back, we named The Wrestler one of the best films of that year. Now, Aronofsky is back with his psychosexual ballet opus Black Swan, starring … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #243: Director Denis Villeneuve
Quebec director Denis Villeneuve has been ubiquitous here in Canada since 2000, when he released his breakthrough feature, the strange, vivid and colorful Maelstrom, which swept that year’s Genie Awards. He returned, audaciously, with Polytéchnique, a dramatization of the infamous … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #241: Director Danny Boyle Special #2
With an eclectic array of films to his credit, director Danny Boyle emerged from his native England to become one of the most celebrated and revered filmmakers of independently-minded cinema. Ever since his emergence onto the world stage with Trainspotting … [Read the Rest]
Sordid Cinema Podcast #17: Director Gaspar Noé
Argentine Gaspar Noé might not be the cinema world’s most prolific provocateur, but he’s certainly one of the most vigorous. After a long stint helming short films, he burst onto the scene with 1998′s caustic I Stand Alone, which chronicles … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #234: Director Claude Chabrol
Credited as a father of the French New Wave, Claude Chabrol’s career spanned over 5 decades and included everything from arthouse classics, police dramas and psychological thrillers. With his passing last month, Cinema lost one of its most consistently challenging … [Read the Rest]
