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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #35. Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio
The Silver Bear (2009 Berlin Film Festival) and The European Film Academy’s Discovery of the Year award winning Katalin Varga announced that the arrival of helmer Peter Strickland. I have a penchant for films about the filmmaking process and an important factoid worth mentioning is that Strickland has a background in sound effect/recording profession so this should be of interest twofold.
#35. Berberian Sound Studio
Director/Writer: Peter Strickland
Producers: Mary Burke (Submarine), Illuminations Films’ Simon Field and Keith Griffiths (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)
Distributor: Rights Available (Match Factory)
The Gist: Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a shy and nondescript sound engineer from the UK is hired to mix the latest giallo film by horror maestro, Santini (Antonio Mancino) and he soon finds himself caught up in a forbidding world of bitter actors, capricious foley artists and confounding bureaucracy...(more)
Cast: Toby Jones toplines.
List Worthy Reasons…: The Silver Bear (2009 Berlin Film Festival) and The European Film Academy’s Discovery of the Year award winning Katalin Varga announced that the arrival of helmer Peter Strickland. I have a penchant for films about the filmmaking process and an important factoid worth mentioning is that Strickland has a background in sound effect/recording profession so this should be of interest twofold.
Release Date/Status?: Currently in post-production, this would make for a great showing in Cannes or Venice followed by a BFI London premiere.
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