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Trailer here. (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810089793/trailer)
Release Date: October 8th, 2010 (limited)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich
Directed by: John Curran
Premise: A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a correctional officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood Contribute To Score For 'Stone'
Source: Pitchfork
Ed Norton has got some talented friends, in high places. Speaking at the Variety Screening Series (via Pitchfork) presentation of his upcoming legal/sexual thriller "Stone," Norton reveals Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood helped inspire the score for the film by John O'Brien. "I'm friends with the guys in Radiohead. And Johnny Greenwood, who did the incredible score for Paul Anderson's 'There Will Be Blood,' met me in London a while back when John (Curran) and I were developing the script," Norton recalls. "So given the spiritual ties in this film, I started talking to him about this idea: 'What would you use to record this divine-like tuning sound?' And he and Thom (Yorke) had been playing a lot of weird ambient stuff at the time and so, amazingly, they just unloaded tons and tons of files to us of these sound experiments that they had been doing. We just listened to them in awe until John (Curran) eventually got John O'Brien to come in and see what he could make of it." It's unclear if O'Brien used the sound files as a jumping off point for his own score or re-cut and re-assembled the material; there is no composer credit for the film that we can find. We're just mostly amazed Radiohead handed over tapes of their experiments; we'd kill to hear it. You can go over the film's official site and hear some of the music from the film, and parts of it definitely sound like it could easily have come from Yorke/Greenwood. As for the film, the reviews from TIFF were not good and advance word in general is not strong on the film. "Stone" starring Ed Norton, Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich opens in limited release starting on October 8th.
that sounds like Edward Norton just made that up. He doesn't know radiohead...they're not friends
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well, I was watching the film and there was this moment when the score became "there will be bloodish", not in the operatic "prospector's arrive" kind of way but more in the opening sequence's beginning and some other parts where is just very subtle "noise", only atmosphere. weird, cause I didn't know about this edward norton statement...
anyway, the film was pretty good. actually, more than good. there's a lot of layers to it. it's no thriller, that's for sure. it's kind of a character's drama, perhaps too subtle to ever had a chance of making money. the upside is that both norton and de niro shine in this thing. I mean this is certainly de niro's best performance in more than a decade...maybe since heat. he goes to some pretty dark places with this character...but the one who really stands out is milla jovovich, she does a lot with a difficult character. i think the critics missed the boat here. this deserved more recognition.
A really amazing character drama that demands to be paid attention to. The performances will eat at you and if you let the film wash over your eyes you'll get more and more out of it. In fact this film has one of the better performances from De Niro in recent years.
I don't want to say too much else without giving away anything. I feel that if I give away one detail I'll spill the rest. So, make sure you see this under rated and dark film. Made me smile huge.
yeah, I saw it a second time last week and my admiration became more solid. critics totally fucked up with this movie. I mean shit like kids are all right and king's speech are out there winning awards and no actor on this movie is recognized, it's a shame. this second time it was harder to pick a favorite performance. de niro really nails it here. strange, because on the surface he doesn't seem to be doing anything different from his usual usual yet from the beginning there's something disturbing and sad about this character, and he makes the most of it.
the ending also had a better resonance this time, it actually made me smile.
totally underrated.