After four long years out of the movie industry, Toshiaki Toyoda director of “Blue Spring” and “9 Souls” is finally coming out with a new movie called The Blood of Rebirth (Yomigaeri no Chi), a hallucinatory samurai film in the tradition of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Ricky D is the editor-in-chief of Sound on Sight and one of the hosts of 'Sound On Sight Radio', the 'Sordid Cinema' podcast and our videocast titled 'Front Row Center'. He also contributes written reviews when time permits.
Favorite films: 'Salo', 'Contempt', 'The Vanishing', 'Pulp Fiction' & 'La Haine'
Favorite Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Quentin Tarantino, P.T. Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Billy Wilder & Stanley Kubrick 
Speaking to Michael Ciment about his 1975 masterpiece Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick reveals that he had once been interested in adapting another of Thackeray’s novels, Vanity Fair, for the screen. This idea was ultimately abandoned by Kubrick who felt that … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight will once again be covering the SXSW Film Festival this year, making it our second time attending. We’ve already posted news that 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas fest taking place March 9-17, including … [Read the Rest]
There are various ways in which the found footage genre uses the camera to tell the story. Some let the camera do all the work while others provide interviews, commentary, and other narrative features. The former consists of films like … [Read the Rest]
Throughout the first half of February, the Sound On Sight staff will take a look at the Academy Awards. With the biggest night of the cinematic year coming up on the 26th February, the nominations are all set and confirmed, … [Read the Rest]
Blood on the Plain Directed by Mac Eldridge Written by Angel Esparza 2012, USA Film school can be a rough place. Everybody is working to try and show off what they can (or at least what they think they can) … [Read the Rest]
2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Courtesy of the YoungCuts Film Festival www.YoungCuts.com What’s It Called? 2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Who Made It? Directed and Edited by Phil Lubenskyi Where Is It From? Canada (Quebec) Who Is the Director? There he stood, … [Read the Rest]
The Surrogate Directed by Ben Lewin Screenplay by Ben Lewin 2012, USA John Hawkes (of Deadwood and from last year’s Martha Marcy May Marlene) portrays Mark O’Brien, a real life poet and advocate for the physically disabled who decides at … [Read the Rest]
Throughout the first half of February, the Sound On Sight staff will take a look at the Academy Awards. Whether one of the major studios takes the top prize at the Academy Awards or not, they have no squawk this … [Read the Rest]
The first trailer and poster for the fourth entry in the eponymous Bourne film series, have gone online. Based on the Jason Bourne novels by Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader, the story sets off after the conclusion of The … [Read the Rest]
Impardonnables (English title: Unforgivable) Directed by André Téchiné Written by André Téchiné and Mehdi Ben Attia France, 2011 French director and screenwriter André Téchiné has had a long and illustrious career, earning critical acclaim for a great variety of films. … [Read the Rest]
