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NEWS : STORIES
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09.10.1997 7:22 PM EDT
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News Flash: Luna Lands Score For Indie Film
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Luna, currently on tour supporting Pup Tent, has expanded its musical horizons by composing and performing the score to the independent film Mr. Jealousy.
The film, which debuted at this year's Toronto
Film Festival but has yet to be picked up by a major studio, features Annabella Sciorra and Eric Stolz in a black comedy about a jealous boyfriend who joins the therapy group of his girlfriend's former suitors.
The alterna-rockers are not strangers to soundtrack work, with their version of Donovan's "Season Of The Witch" kicking off the soundtrack to I Shot Andy Warhol. Luna frontman Dean Wareham said that most of what Luna recorded for Mr. Jealousy has no vocals and is, instead, a lot of background music.
"The only actual song we ended up doing was a cover of John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy,' " Wareham said. "Aside from that, there are no real songs on the score. It isn't really like anything we've ever done before." In addition, Wareham said that the film's soundtrack contains the Leonard Cohen song "No Way To Say Good-Bye."
The film also features an appearance by Wareham. "It's just a bit part," he said. "When I first met with Noah Baumbach (the film's director) about the score, he asked me if I'd like to have a part on screen. I told him I had done some acting in high school and that I was interested."
When the script finally arrived, it said that his character, the music video director, entered the room, but it offered him no lines to memorize. "I had to improv a line," Wareham said, "so I made something up about shooting a Nine Inch Nails video."
The cameramen shot him from the back of his head, he added, and his scene appears early in the film. "It's a wonderful film," Wareham added, "but if people come to see this because of me, they can treat it like a short film and make plans for the rest of the day." -- Randy Reiss [Thurs., Sept. 11, 1997, 5 p.m. PST]
 
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