Friday Nov 01, 2019

Making Waves (w/ dir. Midge Costin)

When we heard that a documentary about the art of film sound was being released we simply had to check it out. Fortuitously, the film was playing at this year's London Film Festival and we were lucky enough to be able to interview the film's director Midge Costin. Midge has an unbelievable C.V. herself as a sound editor working on many of the big action movies of the 80s and 90s including The Rock, Armageddon, Days of Thunder and Crimson Tide. As a graduate of the University of Southern California, she shares the history of American film sound development with the likes of Walter Murch, Ben Burtt & Gary Rydstrom. Her film tracks the experimental developments of sound design and explores the importance of sound to the very DNA of cinema. Neil and Dario discuss some of the questions and examples that the film raises in terms of the symbiosis of sound and image and, in keeping with this subject matter, Dario has created an edit utilising the aural examples that are cited throughout.

(Thanks to Debbie Murray of Aim Publicity)

Shownotes

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Fuller at Fox Boxset (reviewed by Neil at the beginning)

Crimson Tide - I Do Not Concur

Terminator 2: Parents

Tomita - Snowflakes are Dancing

A Star is Born - Barbara Streisand

Punch Drunk Love - Crash

Punch Drunk Love - Harmonium

The Sounds of Clarie Denis

The Apartment - Champagne