Darius Marder ’s Sound of Metal went into 2019’s Toronto International Film Festival without a distributor. Now, a year-and-a-half on, it’s a six-time Oscar nominee and perhaps the most hard-fought of all of this year’s crop of Best Picture candidates. Joe Utichi meets Marder and stars Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci to take stock of a film that transformed its key players in ways they hadn’t expected. They say Oscar loves a narrative, and they don’t come much more inspiring than Sound of Metal ’s. Even before he got his debut feature to set, Darius Marder spent more than a decade honing his tale about a heavy metal drummer and recovering addict who loses his hearing, butting up against the many hard realities of filmmaking that told him a movie like this could not work. As he did it, he learned more and more about deaf culture, and heard moving stories about people pursuing recovery in dedicated deaf sober houses. In Riz Ahmed, he found an actor willing to immerse so fully … [Read more...] about How ‘Sound Of Metal’ Changed Everything For Riz Ahmed, Darius Marder & Paul Raci, Even Before It Earned Six Oscar Nominations
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Netflix’s Army of the Dead Poster Teases a Big Twist for Zack Snyder’s Zombies
Director Zack Snyder has revealed a new poster for his upcoming Netflix zombie heist flick, Army of the Dead , with the filmmaker teasing that a twist could be in store for audiences and Dave Bautista's mercenary crew. The poster is bright and colourful in stark contrast the image it depicts, a severed head on a stick. The head appears to be wearing some sort of mask with Snyder captioning the image with something very intriguing indeed... "They are not what you think they are." RELATED: Zack Snyder Answers Biggest Army of the Dead Question: Who Needs Money in a Zombie Apocalypse? What Zack Snyder means by this is anyone's guess at this stage, but it could suggest that there will be more to the undead than meets the eye. Snyder has previously described Army of the Dead as "genre-on-genre in a great way," meaning that the movie could take the zombies in a different direction than expected, with the director hinting at a potentially subversive twist somewhere along … [Read more...] about Netflix’s Army of the Dead Poster Teases a Big Twist for Zack Snyder’s Zombies