At the heart of every filmmaking decision is one question: Where is the audience in relationship to what is happening on screen? One of the most common approaches to answering this question is through ...

"Sound of Metal" tells a story quite specific in its details. Punk-metal drummer Ruben, a recovering addict, suffers a sudden, severe hearing loss. He checks into a remote community for recovering ...

The first time it happens he’s up before his girlfriend in the Airstream trailer they share. He’s an early riser, always has been, and he’s making breakfast when everything goes hollow – like when ...

Editor’s Note: “Sound of Metal” won Oscars for best sound and best editing at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25. This story, published ahead of the awards, features interviews with sound designer ...

During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will ...

The journey to write Amazon's Sound of Metal took well over a decade. But for writer-director Darius Marder and his writing partner and brother, Abraham Marder, that length of time was necessary to ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Darius Marder’s sensational drama Sound of Metal didn’t win Best Picture (Nomadland) at the 2021 Academy Awards, but the critically-acclaimed film did capture Oscar gold, ...

'Loot' director Darius Marder's debut fiction feature, 'Sound of Metal,' stars Riz Ahmed as a drummer dealing with the sudden loss of his hearing. By John DeFore A film about the sudden onset of ...

Inside Darius Marder and Nicholas Becker's experiment to create subjectivity through a point of hearing. At the heart of every filmmaking decision is one question: Where is the audience in ...