The unglamorous room where the work actually happens: auditions, practice, blood on the instrument. Films that shoot craft as labour rather than as montage.
Whiplash2014 · Damien Chazelle★ 4.5 · 1The studio is shot as a boxing ring — blood on the snare, a taped hand, a metronome for an opponent — and the drum stool is where the character is both destroyed and made.
La La Land2016 · Damien ChazelleAudition rooms, a club stage, an upright piano in a cramped apartment: the film keeps returning to plain rooms and shoots them as unsparingly as it shoots the fantasy numbers.The motif, its definition and every per-film note are editorial work by this site’s members — nothing on this page is imported.
