Episode 223: Alan Ball and Viggo Mortensen

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Christmas continues to come early on Soundtracking, as once again we have two guests for you instead of one.

First up, a bit of a legend in our mind, given that he scripted both American Beauty and Six Feet Under. Alan Ball has now written and directed a little gem of a movie in the shape of Uncle Frank, which you can watch on Amazon Prime. Starting Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillas, Uncle Frank tells the story of a gay man forced to confront his past on a road trip with his niece, and has all the wit and nuance of Alan's previous stellar work.

Then, perhaps even more impressively on a certain level, Edith is joined by Viggo Mortensen, who not only wrote and directed, but also starred in, and composed the score for, Falling - his first film behind the camera. A long time in the making, Falling sees Lance Henriksen play the homophobic Willis, who is forced to move in with his gay son when he starts to exhibit signs of dementia. Falling has a cinematic release, but you can also watch it at home. Head to modernfilms.com/falling to find out how.

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0:29.8	Hi, everybody. How are you? Hope this finds you well. Thank you so much for joining us for another week of soundtracking, my weekly podcast where I dive into the minds of
0:38.9	creatives to talk about their relationship with film and music, both personally but also
0:44.5	professionally. And Christmas continues to come early on soundtrack and as once again we have two
0:49.8	guests for you instead of one. First up, a bit of a legend in my mind, given that he scripted both
0:55.5	American Beauty and six feet under. Alan Ball has now written and directed a little gem of a film
1:03.0	in the shape of Uncle Frank, which you can watch on Amazon Prime. Starring Paul Bettany, Uncle Frank
1:09.9	tells the story of a gay man, forced to confront his
1:12.8	past on a road trip with his niece, and has all the wit and nuance of Alan's previous
1:17.9	stellar work. Then perhaps even more impressively on a certain level, I'm joined by Vigo
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