According to Ain't It Cool News, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields is doing the soundtrack for Sophia Coppola's upcoming film, Lost in Translation. The Virgin Suicides was one of those films whose aesthetic really resonated with me - I really liked how it felt - so her new one would have been appealing anyway. Though the soundtrack wasn't great when heard on its own, Air and Sloan's contributions were superb in the film proper, so it's exciting to hear Shields' name attached. I'm not a massive MBV-fan, but I imagine this as something closer to Neil Young's disjointed guitar-work on Dead Man, with shoegaze thrown in. What's more - bonus! - Bill Murray stars! Murray's quietly become one of my favourite dramatic/tragicomic actors over the past five years. I had never paid him any notice in those old, stupid comedies, but his turns as Polonius in the Ethan Hawke Hamlet, and (of course) Blume in Rushmore, struck me with a powerful honesty and skill. Lost in Translation is now officially in my "can't wait to see it" list with. (The other films on said list are The Return of the King and the Charlie Kaufman-penned, Drew Barrymore/Jim Carrey sf lovestory, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).