There’s another new gorgeous trailer for “Revolutionary Road” courtesy of Variety and instead of Nina Simone (“Wild Is The Wind” in the original trailer), this time there’s a modern throwback singer soundtracking the piece: Cat Power ( Her “Sea Of Love” cover from the 2000’s The Covers Record).
The Sam Mendes-directed film that reunited “Titanic” lead stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet looks fabulous (god, the cinematography of Roger Deakins looks astounding, even when he’s mostly kept indoors he shines) and it’s getting by nothing but good buzz so far (it’s been called a “modern classic” already).
Jeffrey Wells passes on some more positive, second-hand information. “I’ve never been much of a fan of Sam Mendes,” writes his tipster, “But I was very pleasantly surprised here. “Revolutionary Road” is a tremendously impressive emotional drama, cleverly put together, beautifully composed, and nicely edited by Tariq Anwar. Only the ending felt a little unsure; otherwise, I feel Mendes has made serious progress as a director. A daring scene at the breakfast table is pulled off with virtuosity towards the end. I’ll say no more than this.”
We’re still psyched for it. This trailer is beautiful and song totally helps; it’s practically like a sumptuous music video. Some of you will remember the song from “Juno,” it was used near the end when Ellen Page gives birth to her baby and Michael Cera comes to visit her in the hospital. As much as that movie could be annoying at times, it was a genuinely sweet moment. Note, like most Sam Mendes films, Randall Poster is the music supervisor here. He’s famous for working with Wes Anderson and did some nice work on “American Beauty,” hello the inclusion of Elliott Smith’s amazing Beatles cover of “Because” in the closing credits of the film. Thomas Newman wrote the score to ‘Road,’ he’s probably most famous at this moment for composing the score to “Wall-E,” and he’s worked with Mendes on every film so far. He’s been nominated for his music eight times by Oscar, but has never won.