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Arcade Fire Not Scoring The Box, Enjoying Wolf Parade
Published 5/16/2008 by Stereogum at Stereogum
Arcade Fire Not Scoring The Box , Enjoying Wolf Parade Arcade Fire Not Scoring The Box, Enjoying Wolf Parade Our pals at Videogum commented on P4K's report that Arcade Fire are soundtracking Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly's new sci-fi horror flick The Box . Well, now Win Butler's telling the internet to calm down because it's not exactly true. Via Win's Blog : Hi everyone. Hope you are having a great spring... [J]ust to let you all know that (internet-based fact checking aside) Arcade Fire is NOT doing the soundtrack to any ...

CORRECTION: Richard Kelly's The Box Won't Even Have A Good Soundtrack
Published 5/16/2008 at Videogum
... Well, the one thing Richard Kelly's new movie The Box had going for it was a rumored Arcade Fire soundtrack. Too bad so sad says Win Butler: ...

In Defense Of Donnie Darko?
Published 5/19/2008 at Videogum
... Last week, I made the unpopular statement that I think Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) is bad at making movies. Obviously, we are all entitled to our opinion, but based on some of the comments received, I am a little less entitled to my opinion than fans of Richard Kelly's work. Actually, let's clarify, I am less entitled to my opinion than fans of Donnie Darko, because clearly no one is arguing in defense of Southland Tales. Now, while I do not understand why it should bother anyone that I am not a fan of this movie, since ...

The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Southland Tales
Published 6/16/2008 at Videogum
... It's well known that I don't like Donnie Darko, which is supposedly why only 5 people read videogum (that's not even close to why). But I will say in my defense that I went into Richard Kelly's Southland Tales with an open mind. I like dystopian nightmares, and I have respect for ambitious projects that attempt to encapsulate a grand theory of the world within a couple of hours. As it turns out, though, I don't like poorly envisioned dystopian nightmares, and Kelly's film may have been an ambitious project, but its ambition wasn't so much to ...