Dec 25, 2022 · One of the most magical things about the recording of room tone—the ambient sound of a space that a crew needs to capture so I can create a seamless edit—is the silence it imposes on …

Jan 31, 2024 · And the eclectic soundtrack of Pulp Fiction presaged Trainspotting ’s stew of hard rock, glam rock, synth pop, alternative, Brit-pop, ambient, electronic, techno, dance, rap, and opera.

Dec 31, 2020 · At the start of 2020, I had an idea that it might be fun to do something with all the footage of room tone I’ve accumulated. For those who aren’t familiar with film and video production, “room …

Aug 12, 2025 · “Romvari‘s graceful, singularly heartsore debut feature has a sharp understanding of how memories form and age: Often it’s the incidental, ambient details you recall as vividly as the more …

Dec 10, 2014 · Home is no longer a faux Tudor behemoth but her very own windowless porcelain dome, where she has retreated, oxygen tank in tow, in a bid to stave off the ambient contaminants that may …

May 15, 2019 · IndieWire’s David Ehrlich admires Frederick Elmes’s “dreamy and playful day-for-night cinematography,” and Screen ’s Tim Grierson notes that, with Jarmusch’s “drone-rock band SQÜRL …

Mar 31, 2025 · The Village Next to Paradise is “a quiet movie, one with little dialogue, sparse scoring, and rich in the ambient sounds of crashing waves, ringing bells, and threatening drones,” writes …

Sep 12, 2023 · Jeffrey Wright’s performance in American Fiction is “like a room tone machine set to ‘ambient contempt,’” writes Adam Nayman in Cinema Scope.

Aug 3, 2021 · He recorded ambient sounds and passenger conversations, the latter inspiring the offscreen train dialogue he recreated in postproduction. Respecting the anonymity of vulnerable …

Feb 25, 2021 · Since then he has managed to maintain a distinctive aesthetic in a variety of different contexts—on film posters and album covers, and in a series of site-specific performances that …