CRAIG ZOBEL, NEW FACES AND GREAT WORLDS OF SOUND
Over in the Director Interviews section of the site is a conversation I had last week with Craig Zobel, one of our current batch of 25 New Faces, about his fine debut as writer-director, Great World of Sound. The film is released this Friday, and one of its most memorable moments features The New National Anthem, a song written by one of the film’s characters, Kyndra Kent. The fantastic lyrics were written by Zobel’s co-writer, George Smith, and you can listen to an mp3 of the song here, as performed by David Wingo, who wrote the melody.
At the same time, you should definitely check out an excellent video for the song Photo Booth by Wingo’s band, Ola Podrida. It was directed by Michael Tully and stars another director, Todd Rohal. Both Tully and Rohal were in our 25 New Faces last year, and are also both buddies with Zobel’s best friend, David Gordon Green.
Fans of Green’s work will know that Wingo first came to prominence with his gorgeous score for George Washington and has since written music for all of Green’s subsequent films. With the recent success of Ola Podrida, who released their debut self-titled album last spring, Wingo has been able to start commissioning promo videos for songs from his album, like Tully’s for Photo Booth. Next up will be Joe Swanberg‘s take on the song Run Off the Road, which stars Kentucker Audley (another of this year’s 25 New Faces). The video was shot while both Swanberg and Audley were in New York for the IFC Center‘s recent The New Talkies: Generation DIY season, and the fruits of their labors should be up at the Plug Research site by the end of this week. Swanberg wrote me that he is “really proud of it,” and I personally can’t wait.
