Two new documentary films with scores from the duotone crew debuted at last week’s Tribeca Film Festival.
First, the as-yet-to-be-titled Eliot Spitzer documentary, scored by Peter Nashel:
This work-in-progress documentary from the Academy Award®-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Nicknamed “the Sheriff of Wall Street” when he was New York’s attorney general, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America’s largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his election as governor with the largest margin in the state’s history, many believed Spitzer was on his way to becoming the nation’s first Jewish president.
Then, suddenly, shockingly, Spitzer’s meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Spitzer—the paragon of rectitude—had been caught seeing prostitutes. As his powerful enemies gloated, his supporters questioned the timing of it all: as the sheriff fell, so did the financial markets, in a cataclysm that threatened to unravel the global economy. With unique access to friends, acquaintances, and enemies of the ex-governor (many of whom have come forward for the first time), this film explores the hidden contours of this tale of hubris, sex, and power.
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Second, Freakonomics, with score by Peter Nashel and Pete Miser, premiered in the festival’s coveted closing-night slot on Sunday, April 30 at 8:00p.
Based on the book by journalist Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt, Freakonomics is less about economics than about the strange connections between seemingly disparate topics—for instance, how drug dealing is like working at McDonald’s or why good parenting methods don’t really matter in the long run.
This unique documentary is directed by a number of critically acclaimed filmmakers: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), Alex Gibney (My Trip to Al-Qaeda, Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film), Seth Gordon (The King of Kong), Eugene Jarecki(Why We Fight, The Trials of Henry Kissinger), and Morgan Spurlock (Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, Super Size Me).
Peter Nashel and Pete Miser scored the Eugene Jarecki portion of the film, which has locked-up a distributor in Magnolia Pictures.
Two new documentary films with scores from the duotone crew debuted at last week’s Tribeca Film Festival.
First, the as-yet-to-be-titled Eliot Spitzer documentary, scored by Peter Nashel:
This work-in-progress documentary from the Academy Award®-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Nicknamed “the Sheriff of Wall Street” when he was New York’s attorney general, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America’s largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country.
After his election as governor with the largest margin in the state’s history, many believed Spitzer was on his way to becoming the nation’s first Jewish president.
Then, suddenly, shockingly, Spitzer’s meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Spitzer—the paragon of rectitude—had been caught seeing prostitutes. As his powerful enemies gloated, his supporters questioned the timing of it all: as the sheriff fell, so did the financial markets, in a cataclysm that threatened to unravel the global economy. With unique access to friends, acquaintances, and enemies of the ex-governor (many of whom have come forward for the first time), this film explores the hidden contours of this tale of hubris, sex, and power.
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Second, Freakonomics, with score by Peter Nashel and Pete Miser, premiered in the festival’s coveted closing-night slot on Sunday, April 30 at 8:00p.
Based on the book by journalist Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt, Freakonomics is less about economics than about the strange connections between seemingly disparate topics—for instance, how drug dealing is like working at McDonald’s or why good parenting methods don’t really matter in the long run.
This unique documentary is directed by a number of critically acclaimed filmmakers: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), Alex Gibney (My Trip to Al-Qaeda, Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film), Seth Gordon (The King of Kong), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight, The Trials of Henry Kissinger), and Morgan Spurlock (Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, Super Size Me).
Peter Nashel and Pete Miser scored the Eugene Jarecki portion of the film, which has locked-up a distributor in Magnolia Pictures.
