Bill Frisell's music is featured
in Gus Van Sant's film for Sony
Pictures entitled Finding
Forrester starring
Sean Connery. Besides using music
from Bill's catalogue of recordings,
Gus asked Bill to create new music
specifically for the film. Miles
Davis' music is also featured
prominently on the soundtrack.
The soundtrack is available on
CD from Sony Records.
While struggling to fit in at
the prestigious and mostly white
prep school that has accepted
him on scholarship, a black teen
with a genius IQ embarks on an
unlikely and rocky friendship
with a brilliant novelist who
has been a recluse for decades.
The writer mentors the teen through
some very hard times, and the
relationship ultimately enables
the older man to grow and thrive.
Finding
Forrester also features
Robert Brown, Anna Paquin, Busta
Rhymes and F. Murray Abraham.
Wim Wender's film, The
Million Dollar Hotel
includes Bill Frisell on it's
soundtrack as well as Bono,
Daniel Lanois, Jon Hassell,
Brian Eno, Greg Cohen, Brian
Blade, Brad Mehldau & Chris
Spedding. Produced by Hal Wilner
and Bono, the soundtrack album
has been released by Interscope
Records. The album was recorded
in Dublin and features 16 tracks
from the film. It includes music
co-written by Bill Frisell and
songs by Bono and U2.
The
Million Dollar Hotel
is a story of friendship, betrayal
and the overwhelming power of
unconditional love. A gang of
unique outcasts and misfits
live in a downtown Los Angeles
fleapit, known locally as the
Million Dollar Hotel. Their
story is seen through the eyes
of a lovesick innocent named
Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies), who
has fallen head over heels for
the tarnished street angel Eloise
(Milla Jovovich). As their relationship
develops, The
Million Dollar Hotel
becomes the focus of a police
investigation: one of its residents,
the engaging junkie Izzy, has
come to a grisly end. To the
amazement of his neighbors,
he is revealed to have been
the son of a billionaire media
magnate. Every denizen of The
Million Dollar Hotel
falls under suspicion in the
inquiry led by FBI hardliner,
Detective Skinner (Mel Gibson).
As Skinner's investigation proceeds,
the lines between murder and
suicide, sane and deranged,
become very blurred indeed. |