drgonzolives

drgonzolives has written 19 posts for Directors Notes

Repo Man

By drgonzolives ⋅ February 26, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

The website Aquarium Drunkard is a beautifully written treasure trove of a website for music. It’s an mp3 blog with real soul. They just posted a little piece about one of my all time favourite films Repo Man directed by Alex Cox, complete with a free mp3 from the soundtrack. Enjoy

The Golem: How He Came into the World

By drgonzolives ⋅ February 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The idea of rescoring classic cinema is becoming increasingly common but I missed this. In 2008 Pixies main man Black Francis rescored the 1920s German expressionist classic The Golem: How He Came Into The World. Now there’s a gorgeous new book documenting the process, with music and image from the performance and the rescored film. [...]

Shark’s Tooth by Archie Bronson Outfit – Ferry Gouw

By drgonzolives ⋅ February 23, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I love Archie Bronson Outfit. I believe they are one of the finest rock & roll bands the UK has produced in years. For their new album Coconut out in March they are doing that ‘video per song’ thing. If initial offering Shark’s Tooth is anything to go by, we are in for a treat. [...]

A Conversation with Jack Thorne

By drgonzolives ⋅ February 21, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

When people knew I was talking to a writer who lives in Luton and has written for Shameless and Skins they assumed he moved here for material, but Jack Thorne, an acclaimed writer for TV, theatre, radio and now film had a different motive. “Price, sorry. I wanted somewhere where I wasn’t working in my [...]

Mixtape – Luke Snellin

By drgonzolives ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

I’m normally dubious of corporate short film competitions. You know, the ‘make a two second short featuring our brand in 14 minutes yada yada yada’. It was with trepidation then that I checked out the Virgin Media Shorts winner Mixtape by Luke Snellin. It came recommended by the wonderful Electric Literature magazine though so I [...]

Damn You Noah Baumbach

By drgonzolives ⋅ February 4, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Miranda July did it first. She stole a song I really wanted to use in one of my films. I mean really wanted to use Spiritualized’s cover of The Troggs’ Anyway That You Want Me which sound-tracked the wonderful Me And You And Everyone We Know. Now Noah Baumbach has done it. Anyone who knows me [...]

The Wonder Of Wes

By drgonzolives ⋅ February 3, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Regardless of what you think about Wes Anderson he is a unique force in contemporary cinema. An auteur in the classic sense with his visual, aural, tonal stamp on every frame of his films. For fans (like me) a new Wes Anderson film is an event and interviews with him are clamoured over. I was [...]

Neil Fox The Dirty Dozen 2009

By drgonzolives ⋅ December 30, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

It felt like another strong year as I struggled to get all my favourites down to twelve. When people say films aren’t as good as they used to be, I point to the first three here. As always, the list is based on the release dates of the films. See you in 2010. 1. Where [...]

Neil Fox The Dirty Dozen 2008

By drgonzolives ⋅ January 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If you’re a long-term DN reader, you’ll know that while the rest of the net has put their ‘Best of’ lists to bed by early December, we hold out until the year is completely done and dusted to leave viewing space for us to agonise over those last minute movie wonders. This time round we [...]