Sentences with phrase «about film composers»

Holding a significant fan base throughout the years, he is one of the most talked about film composers, the subject of many discussions and scholarly papers.

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ComicBook.com has an interview with composer Tom Holkenborg (a.k.a. Junkie XL) about his work on «BvS,» which is the latest ina long line of films featuring the characters.

«Pino Donaggio» (15:41) lets the film's composer speak in his native Italian, with English subtitles translating his remarks, about his work with De Palma on this and other thrillers.

For someone who performs so many roles on this film [writer, director, producer, composer, editor, production designer, art director, costume designer, etc.], it seems like the screenwriting aspect gets talked about the least.

Like Edmund Halley, who died just a couple of years before seeing his prediction come true about the date when the comet bearing his name would return, the sad note about the film is that Rad (listed as director, producer, writer, editor, composer, production designer and set decorator) died in 2007 before he saw it gain new life.

Special Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

Sharing honors from the Society Dramatic Authors and Composers, given annually to a French film in Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong places.

Matt Schrader talks at length about his one - of - a-kind project, SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY — this definitive doc gets inside the mind of Henry Jackman, Steve Jablonsky, Harry Gregson - Williams, and dozens of influential composers.

Solo will stay in the Star Wars family with veteran franchise composer John Williams set to write the theme for the standalone film about Han Solo, slated for release on May 25.

At times, the eagle eyed film enthusiast could be forgiven for thinking that there were about four composers scoring high profile films.

The score for the film is worth taking note of as well, and you can learn more about it in the special features section with an audio interview with the composer Robert Bellon.

«Music of Moonstruck» features composer Dick Hyman talking about the musical choices that were made on the film.

The Coens» composer, Carter Burwell, appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival for the «Dolby Institute: The Sound of the Coens» masterclass and shared some intriguing details about the movie, painting a far more complex portrait of the film the siblings are putting together.

About the only thing less likely than a daft comicbook film scripted by James Schamus and directed by Ang Lee would be one scored by Mychael Danna, seemingly one of the least well - suited composers for this sort of thing.

On the latest Crew Call, the Long Island native and two - time Oscar nominee of The Hurt Locker and 3:10 to Yuma talks with us about his latest work as well as his early days at Yale Music, and how he decided to take the plunge into film scoring thanks to The Omen and Poltergeist composer Jerry Goldsmith.

The best thing about films like this for composers is that they usually allow them to go wildly over-the-top because the filmmakers want music that's as loud and frenetic as possible.

So, for those interested composers reading, they can currently go to: http://secretsoffilmscoring.blogspot.com The feedback has been incredible, «I learned more about film scoring here, than I had in the last 10 years», «No one out there today will teach you what Evan does», «god bless him for his commitment to improving the condition of the film music industry», «a genius at what he does», «incredibly well informed with a lot of experience».

Extras: Two optional English narrations, including one by actor Roy Scheider; audio commentary from 2008 featuring Schrader and producer Alan Poul; interviews from 2007 and 2008 with Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, and production designer Eiko Ishioka; interviews from 2008 with Mishima biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie; audio interview from 2008 with co-screenwriter Chieko Schrader; interview excerpt from 1966 featuring Mishima talking about writing; «The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima,» a 55 - minute documentary from 1985 about the author; trailer; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Kevin Jackson, a piece on the film's censorship in Japan, and photographs of Ishioka's sets.

YAMATO: Talk about working with your sister, Eve Egoyan, on the classical piano music in the film, and with your longtime composer, Mychael Danna.

Recently, I spoke with the composer about his instinctive approach to composition and the value of a total immersion into a film's world.

Michael Giacchino named Composer of the Year by The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA), «an association of online, print and radio journalists who specialize in writing about original film and television music.»

The release includes most of the same extras from the deluxe DVD, as well as a new interview with composer Jon Brion, a new piece featuring behind - the - scenes footage of a recording session for the film's soundtrack, and a new conversation between curators Michael Connor and Lia Gangitano about the art of Jeremy Blake, used in the film.

Mick Harvey, screen composer for the film Chopper, enlightens me about the film's main...

When Primer was released in 2004, Shane Carruth — the film's writer, director, producer, composer, editor, and one of its two main actors — was barely past 30, and he'd spent a couple of years assembling the film on his laptop for a final production cost of about...

«Stepping Into Darkness: The Visual Design of Sicario» focuses on crafting the film's look and defining cinematography, «Blunt, Brolin and Benicio: Portraying the Characters of Sicario» features interviews with the three leads, «Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario» researches the brutal history of drug violence along the border (it features graphic imagery so beware), and «A Pulse from the Desert: The Score of Sicario,» which runs about 6 minutes, profiles composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

An older title brought back into circulation is All Day's expanded DVD release of Ganja and Hess (1983), which features an overly appreciative commentary with the director, co-star, cinematographer, and the film's composer, Sam Waymon, bubbling about a seminal work by independent black filmmakers that's either a lost masterpiece, or an indulgent, narrative mess to some.

Emmy - nominated composer, Miriam Cutler is passionate about scoring documentaries, among them Emmy winning, Sundance, and Oscar nominated films: ETHEL, LOST IN LA MANCHA, THIN, POSTER GIRL, KINGS POINT, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB, AMERICAN PROMISE, VITO, DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART, SCOUTS HONOR, LICENSE TO KILL, ONE LAST HUG.

Talking with the Vampires (2018) A new documentary about the film made by Ferrara especially for this release, featuring actors Christopher Walken and Lili Taylor, composer Joe Delia, Ken Kelsch, and Ferrara himself

Bloody Disgusting had a chance to speak with Refn and the film's composer Cliff Martinez about the film and their thoughts on the initial audience reactions and the commercial potential of it as well.

«I wouldn't actually call it a «musical comedy» — there are movies within the movie, and those movies might have comedic music, but the movie we're making is actually not comical,» composer Carter Burwell said earlier this year about the film.

Think about it: When you consider the most prominent and acclaimed composers in film history, names like Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat and Danny Elfman come to mind.

The supplemental section includes Richard Dyer on Nino Rota and Orchestra Rehearsal, a 21 - minute interview speaking about the film's composer and his last collaboration with Fellini; Orchestrating Discord, a 23 - minute visual essay on the film by Fellini biographer John Baxter; 30 images from the «Felliniana Collection», including rare posters and press materials for the film; a 24 - page insert booklet featuring the film essays «In a Nutshell» by Adrian Martin and «Orchestral Rehearsal: In the Picture» by Tony Mitchell, as well as restoration details.

Pity a historian wasn't contacted for a rundown of the film's genesis; Carol Reed's walking off the picture after losing patience with Brando's ego, and Lewis Milestone taking the directorial reigns as a hired gun; nor a separate featurette on the film's cinematographer and composer; but what has been assembled is a good smattering of contemporary and archival productions about the impressive Bounty replica built from the ground up for a major studio production.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Another Earth (Unrated) Redemption drama about an MIT student (Brit Marling) and an accomplished composer (William Mapother) whose paths cross in tragic fashion on the very same night of the discovery of a mirror planet populated by duplicates of every human on Earth.

We spoke to the composer about the film, Santa Claus and revisiting old works.

«Slumdog Millionaire», the feel good film about a Mumbai tea - boy, swept the BAFTA awards when it won seven prizes including the Best Music Score for Indian composer A R Rahman and the Best Film at the prestigious award function in London.

Marius de Vries, the man behind the music of «Moulin Rouge,» is «Strange Magic's» composer and musical director, which is not an insignificant role considering the film is all about the music.

In late 2017, the trailblazing composer talked to IndieWire about avoiding the creative «straitjacket» of modern film composition, and completing his feature directorial debut after 10 years.

Despite his prolific career and world - renown, Zimmer isn't above geeking out about other film composers.

Blu - ray Highlight: There's some really good supplemental material on the disc — like audio commentaries with the movie's producers, consultants and composer Cliff Martinez, as well as demonstrations on film processing, editing and dialogue editing — but Soderberg and writer Stephen Gaghan's commentary track is jam - packed with so much great information about making the movie that you'll definitely want to start there.

In this exclusive interview, the man behind the magical music of «La La Land, Composer Justin Hurwitz, talks about this latest collaboration with former college roommate, director Damien Chazelle, his inspirations for the songs in the film, and his personal all - time favorite movie.

He continues talking about how he won't score it until he sees the film: «Well, you see, as a composer, you have to wait until the director has his cut done, and sit down with him and do a spotting session.

Having now seen the film as directors Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg originally intended, it's unthinkable that the film ever existed without the emotionally climactic number — a thought apparently shared by the powers that be as expressed in the DVD documentary featurette about the history of the song; it's amusing to see how what was initially a tossed - off suggestion (by composer Alan Menken) snowballed into the costly (both financially and artistically) decision to lose the key romantic moment of the film.

Composer Carter Burwell and sound designer / mixer Skip Lievsay talk about their remarkable 30 - year collaboration with the Coen Brothers and share stories starting with Blood Simple in 1985 and continuing through all 17 of the Coen's films.

The SoundWorks Collection talks with Composer Michael Giacchino about his start in the music and film business and a few of his projects include Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocal, John Carter, and... More

Director Matt Reeves joins sound supervisors Will Files & Douglas Murray, and composer Michael Giacchino in conversation about their four - film collaboration, starting with Cloverfield and culminating with this... More

His work as a film composer includes BODYSONG, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, NORWEGIAN WOOD and THE MASTER.

In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection music profile writer Jon Burlingame chats with Oscar nominated composer Dustin O'Halloran about his work on Director Garth Davis's film LION.

I phoned a friend and film score composer in L.A. and talked with him about a book trailer.

In this interview with the composer for the game, Floex tells about his background as a visual artist who has found his way into the world of music for films and games.