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‘KIMI’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Latest Is A Ruthlessly Efficient Pandemic-Era Thriller

February 9, 2022 3:00 pm

When you call out for KIMI, both the sound and the substance of the voice are comforting. It’s a soft, female sound, providing an affirmation: “I’m here.” KIMI is a virtual assistant, like Siri and Alexa, but ...

Listen To 2 Tracks From ‘Too Old To Die Young’ Soundtrack From Composer Cliff Martinez

Charles Barfield

June 4, 2019 3:43 pm

News

We’ll make this short and sweet. First, we know most of you are anxiously awaiting “Too Old to Die Young,” the new series from writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn. From the looks of the trailer and marketing m...

Composer Cliff Martinez Says Nicolas Winding Refn’s Series ‘Too Old To Die Young’ Will Be Ten 90-Minute Episodes

Charles Barfield

February 4, 2019 2:14 pm

News, Television

It’s been about two years since we’ve known that Miles Teller was going to team up with filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn for a new Amazon series “Too Old to Die Young.” And it’s been almost a full year since we g...

Cliff Martinez Talks Working With Steven Soderbergh, Nicolas Winding Refn & More In Career-Spanning Talk [Masterclass Rotterdam]

Joseph Owen

February 2, 2019 1:21 pm

Festivals, Interviews, News

This week IFFR is holding a wide programme of Masterclasses at Le Jardin Hilton in central Rotterdam. We’ll be bringing coverage of cinematic luminaries including Claire Denis, Jia Zhang-ke and Cliff Martinez, ...

Films From Powell & Pressburger And Steven Soderbergh’s Debut Highlight July’s Criterion Releases

Charles Barfield

April 17, 2018 10:10 am

News

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Criterion just announced their selections for July, and surprisingly they’re led by not one, but six films from director Josef von Sternberg and actress Marlene Dietrich. Also getting the Criterion treatment is...

‘Game Night’ Starring Jason Bateman & Rachel McAdams Is A Winner [Review]

Will Ashton

February 22, 2018 2:03 pm

News, Reviews

"Game Night" is something of a rarity — it's a smart, consistently entertaining, and actually funny studio comedy. There are so many ways it could've gone wrong, yet like actual game nights with the right peopl...

James Mangold Says ‘Logan’ Is A Grown Up Wolverine Movie For Adults; Composer Cliff Martinez Drops Out

Kevin Jagernauth

January 2, 2017 11:23 am

News

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"Logan" isn't playing by the same rules as previous Wolverine movies. It's going R-rated, and is already promising a much more serious tone than the already sober entries "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "The Wol...

Exclusive: Nicolas Winding Refn, Cliff Martinez On The ‘Sci-Fi’ Feel Of ‘Neon Demon’s’ Music

Gregory Ellwood

October 4, 2016 12:28 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Interviews, Video

There were few films as polarizing to audiences and critics this year as Nicolas Winding Refn’s “The Neon Demon.” However, this writer was still haunted by the visual and musical wonder for weeks after first se...

The 50 Best Film Scores Of The 21st Century So Far

Jessica Kiang and Rodrigo Perez

August 18, 2016 2:31 pm

Features

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The question has no doubt been keeping you up nights since we ran our 25 Best Movie Soundtracks of the Century: when the hell is the Playlist going to do scores? Well, here we are now, so quit your bellyaching....

Cliff Martinez’s Score For Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ Getting Limited Edition Vinyl Reissue

Charles Barfield

August 18, 2016 1:37 pm

News

Without a doubt, one of the best scores and soundtracks of the last decade is from Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive.” Regarded by many as Refn’s finest work, the neo-noir film was a moderate hit at the box office ...

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