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[directhit]

http://www.rahmanism.com/2008/09/slumdog-millionaire-exclusive-promo-out.html

wowow

[Yathu]

http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/20E2C9D50215E490652574BE001D5851?OpenDocument

More than half the audience at the film's first press and industry screening at the ongoing 33rd Toronto International Film Festival sat transfixed long after the credits had begun to roll, which is usually a signal for people to jump to their feet and head out of the hall.

Director of the Palm Springs International Film festival, Darryl McDonald, summed it up best: "Isn't the Bollywood number absolutely outstanding?" PTI

[thilak4life]

The music doesn't suit the girl(Litika) abduction video in that website. It's good as piece, but doesn't really sit nicely with that video.

Didn't mean to be negative, just opine. This is good for Rahman to compose for an interesting filmmaker like Boyle. I have seen all his popular films, save "Sunshine". His other Sci-fi "28 days later" is a big blockbuster (I didn't quite like it), while "Trainspotting" is his first popular, and critically aclaimed film, I loved the film on first sight. Same would be true of his underrated films like "Shallow grave", and "the beach", Shallow.. has the Janus-faced protagonists (3 of 'em), much like "Trainspotting". Looks like he is going much more mainstream with films like "Millions", and now this. Haven't seen that, will catch this one up though (for rahman at least).

As for the soundtrack, I loved "the beach" best, followed by "Trainspotting". It offers the composer the ability to suspend, sustain and trascend as the twists and turns flow by. Lets wait and find out how Rahman fares.

[raagas]

The music doesn't suit the girl(Litika) abduction video in that website. It's good as piece, but doesn't really sit nicely with that video.

Even i felt so. The piece was good...but it was more musically-interesting than 'tension evoking'.

[Yathu]

Another positive early review, this time from the Toronto Film Festival :



Bits of a Q&A session with Director Danny Boyle:

[lancelot]

Another positive early review, this time from the Toronto Film Festival :



Bits of a Q&A session with Director Danny Boyle:

WOW! thats just amazing

I watched Danny Boyle's Sunshine awhile back, and was left amazed at how well the movie was done considering the fact that it was a very difficult subject to tackle.

After I herd about Slumdog Millionaire, I did some research on Danny Boyle, and found that he has a movie in the IMDB top 250 list. so I downloaded that movie which is Trainspotting btw and again was very impressed at how amazingly the movie was done.

I have only seen the two movies of Danny Boyle, but two movies in totally different genre, and both of them are amazing movies.

Then you add ARR to a movie of his, and I dont know how good it will be. I have been looking forward to The Dark Knight since 2005 and was left speachless after i watched it. Now i have another movie to look forward to by the name of "Slumdog Millionaire"

history proves that Danny Boyle will not disappoint

hehe

[lancelot]

FYI

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/03/211847.php

hehe

[Yathu]

Lancelot, you should watch "28 Days Later". Thats my fave Danny Boyle movie....but I havn't seen "Trainspotting" though.

[sat_srini]

How do you go about choosing the music? I think in all of your films I've loved your musical choices and I think it really defines a lot of your films.

Boyle: Oh, I just love music. It's the bit I probably enjoy more than anything. When you get a chance to work with a guy like this guy– he's an amazing composer, A. R. Rahman. It was obvious on this that you wanted– the music in Bollywood films is so expressive, it's so much more extreme and upfront than– we tend to hide music, to make it psychological, hidden, Western really, where there they declare it. It's like yeah this is romantic, oh this is dangerous. And anyway so I approached this guy Rahman, and he's an amazing songwriter, very hugely popular there, a huge, massive star, unbelievable star there. And obviously he loved it because it was something different for him to work with a Western director, and we had a great time working on it. And they're all original songs that he's written, apart from– there's an M.I.A. song in the middle of it, "Paper Planes." And she also is a big fan if his because she grew up with all his music because she's– her family is part Sri Lankan, part London. So she was like speechless at the chance to sing for him. So she sings on the first song for him, and then we used her song in the middle. So it's really nice.

I'm very proud of the soundtrack, because it's very unusual. It feels very fresh. That was one of the things I noticed here, watching it in front of a Western audience– because I haven't really seen it in front of an audience– the music felt really fresh. And I loved that, I thought it was really nice. It's been lovely.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/09/...r-danny-boyle/

[Ramakrishna]

Lancelot, you should watch "28 Days Later". Thats my fave Danny Boyle movie

Same here