Blow Out (1981)

A movie sound guy becomes an earwitness to the death of a US politician, and his sound recordings of the incident suggest an assassination, in Brian De Palma's classic but very ugly, masochistic thriller starring John Travolta.

★★★★☆

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Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

The point of this intriguing psychological drama seems to be that film sound engineers are overlooked and should wave their fists and get violent and be heard and appreciated for their input into films such as the giallo horror that Toby Jones' sound engineer, Gilderoy, is helping to make here - we never see a single frame but everything about it, thanks to his watermelon, cabbage, and radish mashing, is visceral and real and when the movie-within-a-movie experiences a setback, we see how sound magic can alter everything.

★★★☆☆

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