"He's got a lot on his mind." That's the tagline for Noah Baumbach's new film, "Greenberg," starring Ben Stiller that looks more and more to be simply about life and what to do when you hit 40, which is the new 30 for adults who still haven't found their way or figured shit out yet (uhh, all of us... sigh).
Umm, and you know what? It looks kind of awesome. Humorous, ironic, but seemingly not shying away from a lot of emotion and grave subjects or tenors. And Ben Stiller, who we were really worried about in this thing (he had to replaceMark Ruffalo after all) looks great in the trailer. We are pleasantly surprised, as we were iffy about his ability to do drama.
The great tone of the trailer is also helped out by the main song, LCD Soundsytem's life manifesto/soul-searching 30-something track, "All My Friends" and you can actually even spot -- very sly Noah -- a cameo shot of LCD frontman James Murphy walking in the trailer just as the music starts (see below). It also appears that some of the score will be written by LCD Soundsystem as well, the end of the trailer says, "featuring new music" by the Brooklyn dance-rock band which will be interesting.
Will it be a full score? We doubt it, Baumbach does have musicians help out, Dean & Britta (ex of Luna) scored some of "Squid & The Whale" (and did some of the music supervision) and added one new track to "Margot At The Wedding," but considering the credit, it's probably not a full score and just a few new tracks recorded for the movie (we will be happily proven wrong otherwise). Baumbach's not really known for his music choices, but to us they're up there with Wes Anderson soundtracks, just not really as well-appreciated. He goes for some excellent, off-the-radar deep cuts (the final three songs on the 'Margot' soundtrack, Fleetwood Mac, Donovan and Karen Dalton choices are all fucking aces; The 'Squid' soundtrack is also incredible and the use of Lou Reed to finish out the film always took our breath away).
The great tone of the trailer is also helped out by the main song, LCD Soundsytem's life manifesto/soul-searching 30-something track, "All My Friends" and you can actually even spot -- very sly Noah -- a cameo shot of LCD frontman James Murphy walking in the trailer just as the music starts (see below). It also appears that some of the score will be written by LCD Soundsystem as well, the end of the trailer says, "featuring new music" by the Brooklyn dance-rock band which will be interesting.
Will it be a full score? We doubt it, Baumbach does have musicians help out, Dean & Britta (ex of Luna) scored some of "Squid & The Whale" (and did some of the music supervision) and added one new track to "Margot At The Wedding," but considering the credit, it's probably not a full score and just a few new tracks recorded for the movie (we will be happily proven wrong otherwise). Baumbach's not really known for his music choices, but to us they're up there with Wes Anderson soundtracks, just not really as well-appreciated. He goes for some excellent, off-the-radar deep cuts (the final three songs on the 'Margot' soundtrack, Fleetwood Mac, Donovan and Karen Dalton choices are all fucking aces; The 'Squid' soundtrack is also incredible and the use of Lou Reed to finish out the film always took our breath away).
via http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/ , of course!
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