Stephane spreading the good word

Bob Holo

So evidently there will be some good music for the Oscars this year !! ?? !!

I was curious to see if Midnight in Paris was up for a nomination - I heard it was. So I went to oscar.com to see what was what and they were simulcasting live interviews... kind of cool so I started watching...

Emma Stone, Gary Oldman, James Earl Jones, George Clooney, The Harry Potter people...
and...

Stephane Wrembel...

...talking about Django and his new album and thanking Hans Zimmer for hiring him to do the Oscars work and just generally being classy soft-spoken hard-working Stephane. If you don't know who Hans Zimmer is... well, you would if you were a hard-core audio-nerd like I am. He is probably the greatest living movie audio man. When I was doing final tuning on home theater loudspeaker designs... probably half the material I used was his stuff. (Batman Begins, Dark Knight, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc etc... I hope the Oscars start to recognize the role soundtracks play in movies and start a "best soundtrack" category.

I missed about the first 15 seconds of the interview because it took me that long to cram my hand into my pocket and bring out my phone and get the camera started.

But man, it's really cool to see the people who work with microphones getting some respect. That's no slight to the people in front of the cameras, but rather a recognition that movies are audio+video... because without people like Hans Zimmer and Stephane Wrembel, they'd be silent pictures.

Good Job Stephane! And much respect to you Mr.Zimmerman.

seeirwin

Pretty sure I just saw a Holo modele nouveau in the pit right before the commercial real after Christopher Plummer's acceptance speech. Anyone else see it?

Archtop Eddy

Yep. I saw it too. It looked great. Congrats Bob! (And Stephane, of course! Pulled out all the stops in 30 seconds or less of Minor Swing...) AE

MichaelHorowitz

Nice!

Archtop Eddy

Here's an audio clip in case you missed it... AE

Ian Rossiter

Just awesome!!! That and Angelina Jolie made my night!!

Phil

Yeah! Though I didn't see him, I thought I recognized Stephane's playing on Minor Swing as soon as his great right hand revved up into propeller mode, just before the break...right on!

...Jolie looked like a right 'tart-in-a-trance'...Meryl Streep, now there's a classy lady who Jolie could learn a thing or two from.

Excellent article in this week's New Yorker (Feb 27) about The Artist and other silent films. (Page 74)

Jazzaferri

I am so glad for Stephane, richly deserved

Passacaglia

I thought it was cool not only to hear Bistro Fada once, but almost as a theme sprinkling the night. And then to have Minor Swing, my family and I were looking at each other, happily a bit blown away to see it brought out like this.

The whole thing, I thought, was a sweet nostalgia trip. Billy Crystal was laid back, enjoying himself, and was wryly funny, not trying too hard. Lot of docs and short subjects I now want to see. And of course, Midnight is ours as soon as we can apprehend it.

rimm

Verrry Cool-the time has never been better to make the Django movie.Has to be played by this man of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isFS4pp_ ... re=related

klaatu

One thing I couldn't understand, though, is why Bistro Fada wasn't nominated in the Best Song category, especially since there were only two nominees! Does the song have to have lyrics?