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Lis­ten to Jon­ah Hill’s spe­cial­ly curat­ed playlist for Mid90s

17 Oct 2018

Words by Adam Woodward

A person wearing a white t-shirt and looking out of a vehicle window.
A person wearing a white t-shirt and looking out of a vehicle window.
The actor-turned-direc­tor has teamed up with Spo­ti­fy to release an Offi­cial Motion Pic­ture Playlist’

For cer­tain film­mak­ers, a care­ful­ly curat­ed sound­track can add an extra lay­er of bio­graph­i­cal tex­ture to a pas­sion project. We’ve seen this in recent years in the likes of the Guardians of the Galaxy films and Baby Dri­ver. Now Jon­ah Hill’s direc­to­r­i­al debut, Mid90s, for which entire scenes were writ­ten and shot to spe­cif­ic pieces of music, is tak­ing the per­son­al movie sound­track a step further.

Set in Los Ange­les, the film fol­lows a 13-year-old named Ste­vie (Sun­ny Suljic), who spends his sum­mer hang­ing out around a local skate shop in an effort to escape his trou­bled home life. Lucas Hedges co-stars as Stevie’s old­er broth­er, with Kather­ine Water­ston play­ing the boys’ moth­er. In our first-look review from the Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val, we described Mid90s as a scrap­py tri­umph, with heart, soul and a bound­less sense of ado­les­cent energy.”

To coin­cide with the film’s release, Hill has curat­ed a playlist which is being made avail­able exclu­sive­ly on Spo­ti­fy. Billed as the first ever Offi­cial Motion Pic­ture Playlist’, it marks the first time that the steam­ing ser­vice has col­lab­o­rat­ed with a film com­pa­ny in this way, and includes tracks from A Tribe Called Quest, Bad Brains, Pix­es, Nir­vana, Wu-Tang Clan and Cypress Hill.

The playlist is being added to through­out the film’s the­atri­cal run, and you can now lis­ten to the first 15 songs below.

Mid90s is released 19 Octo­ber in the US.

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