LOS ANGELES -- What's It About: Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the ...

Praised for its immersive approach to mapping out a drummer’s confrontation with hearing loss, writer-director Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal,” now contending for six Academy Awards, features a ...

It can be difficult to maintain a first-person narrative, according to director Darius Marder. Audiences might tire of the protagonist, eager for the story to cut away to another character’s point of ...

With its immersive sound design and understated storytelling, Sound of Metal feels viscerally real. Nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, the film tells the harrowing story of an ...

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 ...

'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 ...

CRITICAL ACCLAIM. "SOUND OF METAL" GARNERING 6 OSCAR NOMINATIONS. BEN: AND AS OUR DOUG MEEHAN SHOWS US, SOME LOCAL ACTORS ARE BIG REASON FOR THIS MOVIES SUCCESS. DOUG: THE SOUND OF METAL CENTERS ...

The director Darius Marder and the sound designer Nicolas Becker went to great lengths to put viewers inside the head of a musician going deaf. By Mekado Murphy Creating an audioscape for a movie ...