Episode 144: Olivia Wilde, Dexter Fletcher & Giles Martin

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It's three for the price of one on the latest episode of Soundtracking.

First up is actress, producer and now director, Olivia Wilde, who makes her debut behind the camera with Booksmart.

A coming-of-age comedy/drama starring Kaitlyn Dever and Beanind Feldstein, it boasts a killer soundtrack and a super-cool score by Dan The Automater.

As if that weren't enough, we then welcome director Dexter Fletcher and composer Giles Martin, who join forces to fabulous effect on the Elton John musical biopic, Rocketman. Starring Taron Egerton in the lead role and Jamie Bell as Elton's longtime collaborater, Bernie Taupin, the film features all the classics, reworked for the purposes of the narrative by Giles.

But we begin with Olivia - who we can assure you knows and loves her music. As we mentioned, she's used a number of great needle-drops in Booksmart, including tracks by LCD Soundsystem, Lizzo and Anderson Paak. Dan the Automator, meanwhile, compliments her choices with his score, which more than passes as a standalone work of beats, breaks and dreamy electronica ...

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0:29.8	It's three for the price of one on the latest episode of soundtracking, the screen music podcast with me, Edith Bowman. First up is actress, producer and now director, Olivia Wilde,
0:41.5	who makes her debut behind the camera with the fantastic book smart.
0:46.2	A coming-of-age comedy drama starring Caitlin Devere and Beanie Feldstein.
0:50.7	It boasts a killer soundtrack and a super cool score by Dan the Automator of which more shortly.
0:56.0	And as if that weren't enough, we then have director Dexter Fletcher and composer Giles Martin, who joined forces to fabulous effect on the Elton John musical biopic, A Rocket Man, starring Taran Edgerton in the lead role and Jamie Bell as Elton's long-time collaborator, Bernie Toppin.
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