There are so many scoring processes. I also work as a musician. When I did [the 1984 Win Wenders movie] Paris, Texas, I worked with Ry Cooder and Van Dyke Parks was playing keyboards. David Lindley and I were covering all the string instruments. Ry would look at the film and write these themes on slide guitar and we’d play along with him. There were charts, but it wasn’t at all a process that I had been used to. It was a lot more extemporaneous. … [Read more...] about David Mansfield on His Years With Bob Dylan, Bruce Hornsby, Johnny Cash, and Sting
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Reflections on the Muslim Ban on the Four-Year Anniversary
Did you see protesters when you were released?I got out to an empty airport because I was one of the first people to be detained. My partner was there and a friend. It was like four in the morning. She had followed what was going on and she came with some food, she made some Sri Lankan curry and brought it. I was met by those two people, which was a wonderful way to exit. When I was in the car going back home, I immediately got on the phone with people that I’d been in touch with before, who were trying to figure out what was going on on the inside so they could help other people who were coming in and being detained. I hadn’t slept in like 48 hours. I maybe took a one hour nap, got back up and continued doing phone calls with lawyers, but then also doing a little bit of media work. And I remember when I saw footage of people at JFK, basically 24 hours later. People started coming to the airports. San Francisco, New York City. I saw this footage on the news of a family … [Read more...] about Reflections on the Muslim Ban on the Four-Year Anniversary
Thad Cockrell Makes ‘Tonight Show’ Debut, Performs ‘Swingin” With the Roots
Cockrell’s appearance on The Tonight Show came after a surreal series of events that started when Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon happened to hear “Swingin’” in a hardware store and was instantly mesmerized. The song was from Cockrell’s 2020 album, If in Case You Feel the Same, which had arrived last summer, but failed to make a big splash. At the beginning of 2021, after nearly two decades as a musician, Cockrell told his management that he was going to start looking for another job, at which point they informed him that Fallon had fallen in love with the song and booked him for Tonight. … [Read more...] about Thad Cockrell Makes ‘Tonight Show’ Debut, Performs ‘Swingin” With the Roots
The End of the Tour with Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg Goes to Sony
Jason Segel stars as Infinite Jest writer David Foster Wallace, who kills himself while on a book tour at the start of his fame. Jesse Eisenberg will play Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, who was on tour with Wallace at the time of his death. Their road trip causes a rift between the two writers, as they experience jealousy and competition between themselves, discussing women, depression, and the pros and cons of fame. … [Read more...] about The End of the Tour with Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg Goes to Sony
UK Sales Firm Strikes Slate Deal; Crackle Picks Up South African Pic; Filmmaker Launches Pod ‘How My Grandmother Won WWII’ — Global Briefs
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. filmmaker Enid Zentelis (Evergreen) is launching podcast How My Grandmother Won WWII, which follows a her journey to discover the truth about her Hungarian-Jewish grandmother’s covert work for British Special Operations during WWII. Zentelis, whose mother and grandmother survived the Holocaust in Hungary, recently discovered a cryptic letter from British Special Ops thanking her grandmother for her ‘highly confidential work’ during the war. The six-part limited series will begin airing weekly episodes today, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Zentelis is best known for her narrative feature films and episodic work. As a writer-director she has been nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and for the Nora Ephron prize a Tribeca Film Festival. The pod is co-hosted and produced by Zentelis and Vicki Vergolina (Let’s Get After It with Chris Cuomo). Story consultants were Marcella Steingart (Netflix’s Abstract) and Jennifer Brooks … [Read more...] about UK Sales Firm Strikes Slate Deal; Crackle Picks Up South African Pic; Filmmaker Launches Pod ‘How My Grandmother Won WWII’ — Global Briefs