Not content with gracing the cover of NME this week, gearing up to tour and release their second album and take the festival season by storm (Glastonbury, Benicassim, Reading and Leeds all on the agenda) Foals have also found time to talk movies with “your new favourite film website”.
Name
Jimmy Smith
Occupation
Musician, Foal
What is your Most Favourite Bestest Film In The Whole Wide World?
American Beauty, I guess. Really was the film that changed cinema for me, before this it was all beer chugging, frat party, exploding cows, high school japes kinda films, and this just blew it wide open. It helped me realise how easy it is to stop and appreciate the smaller things in life, gazing out of your window with a cigarette kinda thing. The whole film is wrapped up so neatly with the soundtrack, creating this immersive, captivating world of a film. The fact that its been copied and that it has now become somewhat of a cliche to make an ‘American Beauty type’ film speaks for itself.
Favourite Scene
When Annette Benning and Spacey are on the sofa, reminiscing about their lives and it looks like everything might be fixed, then Spacey nearly spills beer on the sofa and you know its all fucked from there on.
Favourite Line
“You don’t get to tell me what to do, anymore” (whilst pumping weights). or “How do you like getting fucked by the King……….fuck me your majesty”
First Movie You Remember
Probably Stars Wars / Empire Strikes Back.
Worst Film You’ve Ever Seen
Saw Australia recently, so terrible. Felt like watching a beached whale get pumped full of cheese, the only possible excitement is that it might explode, but it never does!
What Do You Love About Movies
Being able to afford the time to sit and do nothing, be entertained in your seat. I get really excited when I go to the cinema now, I’m so used to watching films on laptops, that the cinema seems like a vegas show.
Foals will be touring the UK in May and will be releasing their second album, Total Life Forever, on May 10th.
I think Foals’ music would really lend itself to a film, i’d like to see them collaborate with a filmmaker, who would be good (?) and provide the whole soundtrack….
Comment by Katy — April 6, 2010 @ 10:20 pm