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Diagnostic Report
Well. That happened. For the record, we have no idea what a Season 2 of this show looks like. We just know that Holy Smokes this finale sure aired.
“Westworld” confirmed a lot of things in its extra-long finale — specifically, the fact that William’s adventures in the park were from an earlier time than the rest of the narrative, and that Maeve’s decision to revolt would lead to her freedom… sort of. One of the most shocking revelations: The rampage Teddy remembers Wyatt going on? That was actually executed by Dolores. Wyatt, it seems, was never truly real.
The other most important plot points: Maeve has made her escape… though she’s looped back to find her “daughter.” The board has made the necessary moves to remove Ford from his position of authority,...
Diagnostic Report
Well. That happened. For the record, we have no idea what a Season 2 of this show looks like. We just know that Holy Smokes this finale sure aired.
“Westworld” confirmed a lot of things in its extra-long finale — specifically, the fact that William’s adventures in the park were from an earlier time than the rest of the narrative, and that Maeve’s decision to revolt would lead to her freedom… sort of. One of the most shocking revelations: The rampage Teddy remembers Wyatt going on? That was actually executed by Dolores. Wyatt, it seems, was never truly real.
The other most important plot points: Maeve has made her escape… though she’s looped back to find her “daughter.” The board has made the necessary moves to remove Ford from his position of authority,...
- 12/5/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Johnny Jewel — née John Padgett — is the staggeringly productive force behind that glistening, nocturnal, electro-noir synth pop you heard in Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive." Almost four years later, he brings his signature genre-bending style back to the screen for his pal Ryan Gosling's dark fairytale "Lost River." But in between, he juggled running his own label, Italians Do It Better, while playing in several of its bands including Glass Candy and Chromatics, doing for-hire TV work and squirreling money away for his own super-secret side projects. His "Lost River" journey began around 2008 when he supplied tracks for "Bronson" director Refn, who brought Jewel on for the acclaimed "Drive," starring and produced by Gosling. By now, Jewel and Gosling have learned to talk each other in a kind of creative frenzy, a simpatico mind meld that makes for a unique director/composer pairing. "When you're creating a world, there's a.
- 4/20/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
"In answer to your question, you bet she can f*ck." In this phrase alone, Oscar Isaac's character Nathan reveals more about himself than his beautiful new A.I. Ava in "Ex Machina." Alex Garland's directorial debut is less about the future of females, "Ex Machina" is actually more a portrait of creators and human men, who fancy themselves as exceptional men if not gods. Nathan -- a billionaire CEO of a tech company -- is intimidating, athletic, confident, self-congratulatingly brilliant. He sports a heftily landscaped beard, lives in his own manicured version of Eden-esque wilderness where his top secret mission is to create a version of an A.I. where "she" is indistinguishable from a human. Nathan's version of "her" is beautiful, small, gentle and cunning. But of all the wide and small definitions of what makes a female human a female, Nathan chose not to tout...
- 4/13/2015
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River hits limited theaters and Digital HD on April 10 and it has already been announced it will be arriving on DVD and Blu-ray on May 5, but today we're going to talk about the film's score, which is now available to be listened to in its entirety directly below. amz asin="B00TJ8VOY0" size="small"Johnny Jewel provides the score while his electronic, synth group the Chromatics have a couple tracks, as does Glass Candy, with stars Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes, Ben Mendelsohn and Matt Smith providing some vocals. And if you were getting a Nicolas Winding Refn vibe from the trailers, you're going to get even more from the music as the first two tracks alone -- "Tell Me" and "Yes" -- could have probably found their way easily into either Drive or Only God Forgives. It's available for purchase right now on iTunes.
- 3/31/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
If you haven’t watched the trailer to Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut called Lost River, correct that now. While early buzz has been mixed, I’m excited to see the film. I think it is also cool that Johnny Jewel scored the film, considering he was going to be the original composer for Refn’s Drive (See Symmetry: Themes for an Imaginary Film where some of Jewel’s ideas and possibly leftout compositions lay). Lost River looks dreamy, hypnotic and a nightmare of Americana.
From the Press Release
Performer/producer/visual artist and composer Johnny Jewel scores Warner Bros.’ thriller Lost River, opening in theaters April 10, 2015.
Directed and written by Ryan Gosling, Lost River is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger starring Christina Hendricks, Eva Mendes, and Ben Mendelsohn. The multi-talented Jewel provides a grainy analog synth score...
From the Press Release
Performer/producer/visual artist and composer Johnny Jewel scores Warner Bros.’ thriller Lost River, opening in theaters April 10, 2015.
Directed and written by Ryan Gosling, Lost River is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger starring Christina Hendricks, Eva Mendes, and Ben Mendelsohn. The multi-talented Jewel provides a grainy analog synth score...
- 3/31/2015
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Performer/producer/visual artist and composer Johnny Jewel scores Warner Bros.’ thriller Lost River, opening in theaters April 10, 2015.
Directed and written by Ryan Gosling, Lost River is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger starring Christina Hendricks, Eva Mendes, and Ben Mendelsohn. The multi-talented Jewel provides a grainy analog synth score that is both emotive and haunting, setting the tone for film’s dreamlike setting.
The Lost River soundtrack is available March 30th, 2015 on Jewel’s Italians Do It Better record label and will feature original tracks from the Chromatics, Desire, and Glass Candy.
In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, a single mother of two (Hendricks) is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together.
Gosling had approached Johnny Jewel to score his directorial debut “Lost River” while...
Directed and written by Ryan Gosling, Lost River is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger starring Christina Hendricks, Eva Mendes, and Ben Mendelsohn. The multi-talented Jewel provides a grainy analog synth score that is both emotive and haunting, setting the tone for film’s dreamlike setting.
The Lost River soundtrack is available March 30th, 2015 on Jewel’s Italians Do It Better record label and will feature original tracks from the Chromatics, Desire, and Glass Candy.
In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, a single mother of two (Hendricks) is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together.
Gosling had approached Johnny Jewel to score his directorial debut “Lost River” while...
- 3/31/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“I’m nervous, but I’m more excited. We’ve been working on it for years now, and it’s only ever screened once,” Ryan Gosling told E! earlier this month, when his directorial debut "Lost River" screened at SXSW following its World Premiere at Cannes last spring. “So it’s nice to finally have our second screening and to just help the movie find its audience.” And indeed, while word was less than kind from the Croisette, interest has never wavered in Gosling's film, and this new teaser will certainly keep that curiosity going. Running three minutes long, and slightly Nsfw due to one bloody face-peeling sequence, the preview introduces the main cast members (Christina Hendricks, Ben Mendelsohn, Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes, Matt Smith, and more) and provides no shortage of arresting imagery from the fantasy film. And that pulsating music? That's courtesy of Johnny Jewel. You can hear a new track,...
- 3/30/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It’s safe to say as Nicolas Winding Refn’s current muse, actor-turned-director Ryan Gosling, is also heavily influenced by his filmmaker friend. Take Gosling’s directorial debut “Lost River,” which is scored by dreamy analogue synth artist Johnny Jewel (who’s also in the bands Glass Candy, Chromatics Desire and Symmetry). Before scoring Gosling’s entire film, Jewel was probably best known for his musical contributions to Refn’s “Bronson” and “Drive.” So perhaps taking cues from his main bro (who has defended the actor’s film vigorously), Gosling tapped Jewel to write the entire score to his polarizing debut “Lost Rive,r” which some have compared to David Lynch, and yes, a little bit of Refn, too (here’s our review). In a press release from a few months back, Jewel said, "When Ryan e-mailed me the script my immediate feeling was that the whole film should be...
- 2/19/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut film, Lost River, will open April 10 for a theatrical run in New York and Los Angeles and will also be available same day via national digital release in the U.S.
This news comes the same day as the announcement of the film’s North American premiere being part of the SXSW Film Festival, running March 13 – 21 in Austin Texas.
The film, from Sierra Affinity, Phantasma Films and Bold Films, stars Christina Hendricks (TV’s “Mad Men”), Saoirse Ronan (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”), Iain De Caestecker (TV’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Matt Smith (TV’s “Doctor Who”), Reda Kateb (“Zero Dark Thirty”), Barbara Steele (TV’s “Dark Shadows”), with Eva Mendes (“The Place Beyond the Pines”), and Ben Mendelsohn (“The Dark Knight Rises”).
In addition to directing the film, Gosling also wrote the screenplay. The producers are Marc Platt (“Into the Woods”), Gosling,...
This news comes the same day as the announcement of the film’s North American premiere being part of the SXSW Film Festival, running March 13 – 21 in Austin Texas.
The film, from Sierra Affinity, Phantasma Films and Bold Films, stars Christina Hendricks (TV’s “Mad Men”), Saoirse Ronan (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”), Iain De Caestecker (TV’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Matt Smith (TV’s “Doctor Who”), Reda Kateb (“Zero Dark Thirty”), Barbara Steele (TV’s “Dark Shadows”), with Eva Mendes (“The Place Beyond the Pines”), and Ben Mendelsohn (“The Dark Knight Rises”).
In addition to directing the film, Gosling also wrote the screenplay. The producers are Marc Platt (“Into the Woods”), Gosling,...
- 2/4/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
sb id="1423335" height="360" width="640" On the heels of the first official trailer (see above) released earlier today, Warner Bros. just sent over the first poster for Ryan Gosling's Lost River, which will be hitting limited theaters and digital HD on April 10. The film is described as a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger, centering on Billy (Christina Hendricks), a single mother of two, living in the virtually abandoned city of Lost River. She is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together. Her teenage son Bones (Iain De Casestecker) discovers a mystery about the origins of Lost River that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves. Ben Mendelsohn, Eva Mendes, Saoirse Ronan and Matt Smith...
- 2/3/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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