John Hillcoat gets back together with Nick Cave, and brings another old buddy into the frame to explore the darker side of the human condition in the video for Nick and the Bad Seeds’ Jubilee Street. Ray Winstone plays the regular customer of a young sex worker, torn between desire and self-loathing, while Nick Cave [...]
Having directed a couple of big Hollywood movies, The Road and Lawless, perhaps its no surprise that John Hillcoat’s video for How To Destroy Angels’ Ice Age, released late last year, is a peerlessly cinematic video and no less dramatic for being, for the most part, a straight performance. But the beautiful cinematography by Linus [...]
Featuring a stirling performance from Ray Winstone sharing his experience of divine intervention in his youth after being struck by lightning, John Hillcoat’s powerful promo for UNKLE’s The Answer is full to the brim of dramatic, beautiful imagery mirroring Winstone’s take on life. The track is from UNKLE’s latest EP, due on September 28th. UNKLE [...]
John Hillcoat delivers this wild and camp series of cinematic images of bathing lady, wolfmen, band-as-Roman-centurians with unearthly powers and general scareyness to match the twitching, nervous, whacked-out tones of Grinderman’s Heathen Child. Brilliant. Grinderman Heathen Child (Mute) Director: John Hillcoat Producer: Malachy McAnenny Production Company: Factory Films DP: Steve Annis Additional Camera work: Mark [...]
Grinderman – a side project of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – are due to release their second album in September and John Hillcoat has directed a rather excellent (and scary) trailer for it. The full promo will follow later. This is the first thing Hillcoat has done since directing the much acclaimed movie [...]
John Hillcoat’s gripping adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road opens in the UK today. You must go see this film. The Road has already been longlisted in nine categories for the BAFTAs, including Best Direction, production design, cinematography and leading actor (Viggo Mortensen). A strong opening will be important for also giving the [...]
