Will Bates is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist and founder of music production company Fall On Your Sword. As a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist, Bates has recorded and toured around the globe. As a saxophonist, Bates has collaborated with legendary artists ranging from 60’s icon Lulu to techno legend Marshall Jefferson. Bates works frequently with director Mike Cahill, and the two weave mind-expanding narrative magic for TV and film. Cahill (Another Earth, I Origins) wrote and directed the new film, Bliss, which is being distributed by Amazon Studios and the soundtrack will be released by Milan Records. It tells the multi-layered story of a man whose life lacks purpose, and he…
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Must Listen: Will Bates and Skye Edwards’ ‘You and I’ Music Video from Mike Cahill’s ‘Bliss’
On February 5th, Amazon Studios will release the latest film from director Mike Cahill (Another Earth, I Origins). Bliss tells the story of an unfulfilled man (Owen Wilson) and a mysterious woman (Salma Hayek) who believe they are living in a simulated reality, but when their newfound ‘Bliss’ world begins to bleed into the ‘ugly’ world they must decide what’s real and where they truly belong. The film sports an impressive and dynamic score written by Cahill’s long-time composing collaborator, Will Bates. Along with writing the score, Bates penned the song ‘You and I‘ which he recorded with Morcheeba’s Skye Edwards. GoSeeTalk recently had a chat with Cahill and Bates…
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G-S-T Review…I Origins
What if you were living your life entirely unaware that a whole other world existed in tandem with your own? It’s not The Matrix but it’s an equally heady concept and very thought provoking question like that which Mike Cahill (writer/director Another Earth) asks of the audience. Yet that’s just the beginning of the topics he questions and tires to answer while taking the audience along on his intellectual quest. I Origins, to put it simply, is a sly sci-fi picture that is as fascinating as it is simplistic. Yet it is the multiple rabbit holes and subjects broached which makes the concept of the film so thought provoking. A…
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ALL PASSES CLAIMED – Advance Screening Passes to ‘I ORIGINS’ in DALLAS, TX
Attention: CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All passes have been claimed. Thanks for your interest in Fox Searchlight’s I ORIGINS. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Go,See,Talk is partnering with Fox Searchlight Pictures to give Dallas area film fans FREE passes to a special “Advance Screening” of I ORIGINS starring Michael Pitt, Brit Marling and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey. This screening will take place in DALLAS, TX on Tuesday, July 22nd at 7:30 PM. So how do you claim/win them?? Simple. Click the poster above to get your ticket from the Sony Screening website. Be advised, these passes are first-come, first-served so be one of the first people to register for your ticket and you may get to see I ORIGINS before it opens on July 25th. Finally, as…
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Video Interview…’I Origins’ Actor Michael Pitt and Writer/Director Mike Cahill
In this interview we sit with actor Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire) and writer/director Mike Cahill (Another Earth) to talk about Fox Searchlight’s complex and mind-blowing film I Origins. A sly sci-fi picture, one that’s more idea driven than effects driven, it explores ideas of science, religion and is bound to start up conversations and discussions no matter which side of the fence you put your faith. Also, these guys are a bucket of laughs. Enjoy our time with Michael and Mike, otherwise known as (for the purposes of our session) “Mickey Blue Eyes” and “Dr. Cahill“. And when you see I Origins, make sure you stick around after the credits……
