By Sarah Cleary
Metal is often given short shrift at the movies, but a handful of great auteurs have used the genre and its subculture to brilliant effect.
The veteran character actor chats Sound of Metal, D/deaf representation and performing ASL as Ozzy Osbourne.
Riz Ahmed plays a drummer who loses his hearing in Darius Marder’s bold and brilliant debut.
The writer/director of Sound of Metal discusses replicating the experience of deafness on screen.
He portrays a stickman who is rapidly going deaf in Darius Marder’s visceral debut feature.
Riz Ahmed is on career best mode in this sensitive portrait of a metal drummer losing his hearing.
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