Their Holiday Favorites: Graham Reynolds Loves 'Punch-Drunk Love'

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We're wrapping up Their Holiday Favorites, in which members of the Austin film community tell us about movies they enjoy watching during the holiday season. Today's selection is from local composer and Golden Arm Trio bandleader Graham Reynolds.

Reynolds creates, performs and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs and concert halls with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater to DJ Spooky to the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Reynolds' music has been heard throughout the world on stage, film and television, from HBO to Showtime, Cannes Film Festival to the Kennedy Center, as well as radio including BBC and National Public Radio. His score to the 2006 Linklater movie A Scanner Darkly was named Best Soundtrack of the Decade by Cinema Retro magazine. His awards include the Lowe Music Theater Award, four Austin Critics' Table awards, an Amp Award, five Austin Chronicle Best Composer wins, as well as support from the National Endowment for the Arts for several projects.

Reynolds will be featured in the upcoming documentary Nemesis Rising, due to his involvement with the Intergalactic Nemesis Project. In 2011 he also had twin CD releases of "Three Portraits of Duke Ellington," a triptych of band, strings, and remixes in tribute to and inspired by the seminal composer-bandleader, and "The Difference Engine," a triple concerto for violin, cello, piano, and string orchestra. Here are his thoughts on a critically acclaimed film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood) starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman:

"I don't have a movie or set of movies that we watch over the holidays, but Punch-Drunk Love is one that we watched all together a few Christmases ago. Great sound design, great soundtrack, beautifully shot, and smart, quirky, and funny. Plus everyone's always shocked that Adam Sandler was in a good movie."

Check out the trailer from Punch-Drunk Love below:

 

 

Want to watch? Punch-Drunk Love is available at local video stores, including I Luv Video and both Vulcan Video locations. In addition, you can watch it streaming through Netflix Instant and Amazon Instant Video.