Film Music Reporter

Opening in select U.S. theaters this weekend is the drama Sundown written and directed by Michel Franco and starring Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Henry Goodman, Iazua Larios, Albertine Kotting McMillan and Samuel Bottomley. The film doesn’t feature an original score and no soundtrack release is expected. The movie revolves around a wealthy Briton attempting to abandon his life while vacationing in Acapulco, when a single phone call shatters his idyll and he must return to London immediately. The drama premiered at last year’s Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and is being released by Bleecker Street.

Also opening in select theaters is the comedy Rifkin’s Festival written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López and Christoph Waltz. The film’s original music is composed by Stephane Wrembel (Today’s Special). No word on a soundtrack release. The movie, which follows a cinema devotee who accompanies his publicist wife to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client might be more than professional, is being distributed by MPI Media Group. Read the rest of this entry »