Matthew Wood — Movie Scores, Soundtracks & Filmography

The essay

Reading Matthew Wood

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this filmmaker matters

Matthew Wood has 0 performances in the Nutevio catalogue. Matthew Russell Wood (born August 15, 1972) is an American sound editor and voice actor. He is a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California. He also provides the voice of General Grievous in the Star Wars franchise. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Wood (sound editor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.

Legacy

Wood set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.