Thursday, March 11, 2010
Creamtastic / Moving Pictures City Limits: Love Don't Let Me Down Employs Locals to Tell a Music City Story
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:23 PM
In this week's City Limits section of the dead-tree issue -- City Limits is our catch-all front-of-book section that regularly features all sorts of local news items -- you'll find that I've written a feature on Love Don't Let Me Down. Lots of people have been inquiring about the film crews and Paltrow sightings and faux concerts going on in Music City over the past three months. Well, LDLMD is what that's all about.
I was fortunate enough to get to speak with costar Garrett Hedlund -- you might recognize him as the star from the Tron Legacy trailer -- as well as director Shana Feste and music supervisor Randall Poster. Poster, by the way, has done music supervision for Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Harmony Korine, Sam Mendes and tons more. Scores of locals were tapped to assist in Love Don't Let Me Down's production, a handful of whom were cast as Hedlund and Paltrow's backing bands. From Jim Lauderdale and Bucky Baxter on down to Chris Scruggs and Loney Hutchins, some dudes you might recognize from The 5 Spot, Station Inn or Mercy Lounge had to go and get themselves SAG cards. Have a look at the story online or in print to see on-set photos graciously provided by Ryan Adams sideman Neal Casal, who also "performs" in Paltrow's onscreen backing band
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Randall Poster is a total bad-ass. On Wes Anderson's and Todd Haynes' movies alone, the guy functions almost as a phantom auteur: the sensibilities of those completely different filmmakers emerge more clearly from the soundtracks than they do sometimes from the films. And I keep meaning to check out the director's cut of ZODIAC to see if it has the legendary music montage that evokes the passage of several years behind a completely black screen. Seriously: I'll see a movie if it has Poster's name on it.
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