Showtime’s limited series “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” from “Billions” creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien wears its bombast proudly from the first scene. “Are you an a–hole?” Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) asks a prospective employee. It’s a question that lingers over the whole show – especially as Kalanick’s morally dubious business practices turn the ride-sharing app into a transformational phenomenon that most people watching the series likely use to this day.
In finding the right musical accompaniment to “Super Pumped,” Koppelman and Levien and music supervisor Randall Poster leaned heavily on loud and blustery songs from the legendary rock band Pearl Jam to help track Kalanick’s rise and eventual fall. But the show’s score, from “Billions” composer Brendan Angelides, is socially different in a way that allows “Super Pumped” to find the humanity of its story.
See‘Super Pumped’ creators Brian Koppelman,...
In finding the right musical accompaniment to “Super Pumped,” Koppelman and Levien and music supervisor Randall Poster leaned heavily on loud and blustery songs from the legendary rock band Pearl Jam to help track Kalanick’s rise and eventual fall. But the show’s score, from “Billions” composer Brendan Angelides, is socially different in a way that allows “Super Pumped” to find the humanity of its story.
See‘Super Pumped’ creators Brian Koppelman,...
- 5/3/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
We were anticipating a showing of Naked Singularity at last year’s edition of Sundance and of course it didn’t land anywhere else this year so we’re back to the starting blocks with regards to Chase Palmer‘s directorial debut. Palmer wrote It, and began his movie-making career with the 2002 short Neo-Noir – a Sundance selection. Production on this project began in May of 2019 with John Boyega, Olivia Cooke, Bill Skarsgård, Ed Skrein and Tim Blake Nelson. Eskmo (aka Brendan Angelides) made his feature solo scoring debut on this item and Andrij Parekh is the cinematographer on this one.…...
- 11/20/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Music videos have long been a proving ground for some of the most innovative filmmaking ideas. Sometimes those breakthroughs come as stylistic flourishes. Other times, it means breaking down a simple story to its purest form.
If the 2000s were the decade when music videos embraced the internet, the 2010s were left to reckon with what the internet became. Over 10 years when viral moments were valuable cultural currency, some videos seemed perfectly tailor-made to create them. Whether manufactured to become a sensation or becoming so by pure chance, music videos embraced the weird spirit and sobering reality of the overall trajectory of the decade.
So, acknowledging that winnowing down all that time and creativity to 25 picks is going to inevitably leave out some worthy contributions, here’s our attempt at highlighting the best of what the art form had to offer:
25. Rob Cantor — “Shia Labeouf (Live)” (dir. Scott Uhlfelder)
The 2010s were absurd,...
If the 2000s were the decade when music videos embraced the internet, the 2010s were left to reckon with what the internet became. Over 10 years when viral moments were valuable cultural currency, some videos seemed perfectly tailor-made to create them. Whether manufactured to become a sensation or becoming so by pure chance, music videos embraced the weird spirit and sobering reality of the overall trajectory of the decade.
So, acknowledging that winnowing down all that time and creativity to 25 picks is going to inevitably leave out some worthy contributions, here’s our attempt at highlighting the best of what the art form had to offer:
25. Rob Cantor — “Shia Labeouf (Live)” (dir. Scott Uhlfelder)
The 2010s were absurd,...
- 11/27/2019
- by Leo Garcia and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Classic rock has played a prominent role in Showtime’s “Billions,” not just in songs synched on the show — tracks by Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, Sly & the Family Stone, AC/DC and Van Halen can be heard — but in the T-shirts worn by lead character Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) bearing the logos of Metallica, Black Sabbath, Motorhead and other hard rock bands.
The heavy-hitting placements continue this season, the series’ fourth, with songs by U2 (“New Year’s Day”) and Jackson Browne (“These Days”), both used on the most recent May 26 episode. But creators/writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien are quick to point out that the show’s music finds a balance between the familiar and the lesser-known, with such acts as Lucy Darcus, Fred Eaglesmith and Kevin Morby also soundtracking this season.
Indie rock bands like Guadalcanal Diary, The Replacements, Pylon and The Pixies make the “Billions” playlist...
The heavy-hitting placements continue this season, the series’ fourth, with songs by U2 (“New Year’s Day”) and Jackson Browne (“These Days”), both used on the most recent May 26 episode. But creators/writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien are quick to point out that the show’s music finds a balance between the familiar and the lesser-known, with such acts as Lucy Darcus, Fred Eaglesmith and Kevin Morby also soundtracking this season.
Indie rock bands like Guadalcanal Diary, The Replacements, Pylon and The Pixies make the “Billions” playlist...
- 5/28/2019
- by Phil Gallo
- Variety Film + TV
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