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New Poster For Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s BIRDMAN Goes Retro
Once upon a time, when studios built their films around a big cast filled with A-listers, they made sure to promote their latest spectacles by plastering their stars faces at the bottom of just about every poster. The actors names were also prominently featured to remind moviegoers of their favorite stars’ next movie.
In a nostalgic throwback to those golden days of Hollywood, Fox Searchlight has released a new name, face-driven poster for their film BIRDMAN.
Directed by Academy Award nominee Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, 21 Grams), BIRDMAN stars Michael Keaton as washed-up actor Riggan Thompson, who must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play to reclaim his past glory.
“Riggan is profoundly human,” Iñárritu says. “I saw him as a kind of Don Quixote, where the humor comes from the disparity and permanent dislocation of his solemn ambitions and the ignoble reality that surrounds him. Basically, it’s the story of all of us.”
The film, which also stars Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts, will close the New York Film Festival on October 11 following critically acclaimed showings at the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals.
Grammy Award winning drummer and composer Antonio Sanchez scores Fox Searchlight’s dark comedy.
In his first role as a film composer, Sanchez recorded parts of the drum score by improvising from the script’s themes and collaborating with director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu prior to filming began. Gonzalez Iñárritu needed the film shoot to be cohesive and, with cinematographer Emanuel Lubezki’s extended tracking shots, well-timed. The director relied on Sanchez’s drum score to set the pace for the film’s cast; with the rhythm of the drums tied to the flow of the camera, all tethered to Riggan’s journey towards self-discovery.
“Antonio and I rented a studio one week before I started shooting and he recorded and improvised 60 tracks based on some objectives or emotions the film needed. That helped me enormously and sometimes I even used it on the stage for the actors to understand the rhythm of the scene. Rhythm is everything in cinema,” says Gonzalez Iñárritu.
The soundtrack will be released October 14 on Milan Records. BIRDMAN opens in theaters October 17, 2014.
Be sure to check out the film’s brand new OFFICIAL SITE for a special and interactive experience featuring the imagery from the movie.
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