Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1The Zone of Interest (2023)The Zone of Interest (2023) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Dec 2023Listen beyond the garden. While the camera observes the Auschwitz commandant's household, machinery, distant shouts and gunfire keep another world present across the wall. Johnnie Burn's sound work makes the domestic image impossible to accept on the family's terms. The violence is often outside…0
  2. 2The Conversation (1974)The Conversation (1974) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Apr 1974A surveillance recording becomes more troubling each time an expert filters and replays it. Behind the visible machinery and Harry Caul's anxious face, fragments of voices ask you to reconstruct an encounter you cannot securely understand. Walter Murch makes listening an act of interpretation…0
  3. 3Blow Out (1981)Blow Out (1981) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 24 Jul 1981A sound-effects recordist captures a car leaving the road, then hears a detail that may change what the accident was. The scene begins as the pleasure of collecting a night environment and becomes a problem of evidence outside the camera's immediate view. Brian De Palma makes lining up sound with…0
  4. 4Memoria (2021)Memoria (2021) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 30 Sept 2021A deep, unexplained bang wakes Jessica, yet the room offers no visible source. Her attempt to describe and recreate it teaches you to attend to a sound's weight, edge and duration, then carries that attentiveness into streets and landscapes. Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr and the sound team make ambient…0
  5. 5Berberian Sound Studio (2012)Berberian Sound Studio (2012) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased 30 Aug 2012The horror film being worked on stays largely unseen; screams and the wet crushing of vegetables make you supply its images. Watching Toby Jones's timid sound technician manufacture those effects creates an uneasy split between the harmless object on the table and the violence you imagine. Joakim…0
  6. 6The Guilty (2018)The Guilty (2018) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 22 Feb 2018Rain, an engine, a closing door and a caller's breathing have to stand in for places the emergency dispatcher cannot see. Oskar Skriver's sound design makes those spaces specific while leaving room for assumptions to rush ahead of evidence. Jakob Cedergren's visible reactions become part of the…0
  7. 7Son of Saul (2015)Son of Saul (2015) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Jun 2015The camera stays close to a Jewish prisoner forced to work in Auschwitz, leaving much of the surrounding extermination machinery blurred or beyond the frame. Tamás Zányi layers orders, languages, movement and cries into a space wider than the image permits. The result is deliberately disorienting…0
  8. 8The Vast of Night (2019)The Vast of Night (2019) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased 1 Jun 2019An unfamiliar signal interrupts the routines of a switchboard operator and a radio presenter in 1950s New Mexico. Telephone voices then describe events the film resists illustrating, at times letting the screen fall almost entirely dark. Johnny Marshall and the sound team help turn listening into…0
  9. 9The Lives of Others (2006)The Lives of Others (2006) 8.4/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Mar 2006Through headphones in an attic, a Stasi officer hears private life as a sequence of potential evidence. Conversation and piano music from the rooms below give the still, watchful man an experience the camera cannot reveal on his face alone. The distance between listening for incriminating material…0
  10. 10A Quiet Place (2018)A Quiet Place (2018) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 3 Apr 2018The small noise of an ordinary object can announce danger before the creature is in view. Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn make rustles, footfalls and changing auditory perspectives central to a family's effort to survive predators that hunt by sound. Pay attention to what drops out as well as…0