Sentences with phrase «of scores for films»

It's produced by Nicole Paradis Grindle, who served as associate producer on Toy Story 3 and Monsters Univ., with music by Canadian composer Mychael Danna, of scores for films like Life of Pi, Fracture and Monsoon Wedding.

There is a wonderful collection of songs here that provide a ton of the score for the film.

A creative Olympian with little respect for the rules of the game, Mothersbaugh expresses his unique worldview in whatever medium best serves his purpose: as co-founder of the avant - garde art project / rock band DEVO, composer of scores for film and television, illustrator of 30,000 - plus postcards, mutant portraitist, and maker of musical machines.

Not exact matches

The film industry works under the assumption that an aggregated score doesn't account for the millions of moviegoers who love their creations.

The film surpassed Frozen's record of $ 67.4 million to earn the biggest debut ever for a non-Pixar Disney animated film, and it also scored the fourth - highest March opening weekend in box office history.

Sometimes films with extremely high scores on the critical aggregator often miss the mark for the majority of audiences.

Still another trend — and this one should have caught Easum's attention, given his interest in «sound tracks» — is the use of music that draws on classical idioms in the composition of musical scores for films of high drama, serious feeling or intense introspection.

FLEXIBLE film supplier Wipak UK has launched a new range of bags for dried foods, featuring a laser - scored opening.

And when Keith Smart had finished scoring 12 of his team's last 15 points, including the winning 16 - foot jump shot from the left side with five seconds remaining under massive pressure, most of Indiana didn't even care that the film Hoosiers» Dennis Hopper hadn't won the Oscar for best supporting actor just so long as this real - life Hoosier named Smart had.

Earlier this week Bovada, one of the most popular offshore sportsbooks, posted odds for eleven of the fourteen film categories — omitting Best Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

Starring former Mouseketeer Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, the musical tells the story of two struggling lovers in modern day L.A.. From striking visuals to inspiring musical sets, the film has already won awards at the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival for best ensemble cast and best film score.

Cynthia Nixon is calling for the big film industry tax break to be reined in as part of her run for governor — but the actress» own «Sex and the City» movies scored enough dough from the $ 420 - million program to buy a lifetime supply of Manolos.

From a study of 60 characters from literature, film and television, we scored characters on each of eHarmony's key personality dimensions needed for a successful relationship, including emotional temperament, social style and relationship skills.

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

She's a healer and a nurturer, and her deep feeling for the suffering of others is signaled by a twinkly score and some serenely lovely mangrove - forest imagery that the film keeps dipping into, as if it were a warm, regenerative bath.

This film is excellent, best film of all, but it's too short, so score is 0, they shouldve made it 10 hour long, for such an excellent film even 6 hours is not enough

Corbijn eschews score for sizable portions of the film, letting Clooney set the mood, but the actor's only able to do this when he's allowed to interact with the world around him, whether that manifests itself as building a gun or allowing himself to get drawn into regular conversations with a local priest, Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli).

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

This film is excellent, best film of all, but it's too short, so score is 0, they shouldve made it 10 hour long, for such an excellent film

A mid -»90s gangster epic that hopscotches from Brooklyn to Miami and Cali to Moscow, the film tells the story of three friends who set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel and the DEA for the score of a lifetime.

After winning the Palme d'Or in 2014 for Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan returned to Cannes with another long, dense, dialogue - heavy film, and it's currently the highest - scoring film to come out of this year's festival.

Arthouse specialist Kino Lorber typically scores well with critics for its mix of documentaries and foreign films, and 2013 marked a slight improvement over scores that were already fairly high in 2012.

Unique because of its non-profit status, the Los Angeles - based indie distributor has never qualified for our rankings before, since 2015 is the first year in which the Collaborative released at least seven scored films.

And Paramount earned best picture nominations for its two highest - scoring films last year, Alexander Payne's Nebraska and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street; in all, the studio collected 13 nominations, trailing only Warner Bros. and Sony.

The awards made some questionable decisions when it came to recognizing this film, and among the most questionable, in my opinion, was a lack of recognition for the score by the great Alfred Newman, who hit some conventions and contrivances, but did what he did best by breaking down a lot of barriers for epic scoring sensibilities at the time to come up with refreshing and stellar compositions whose symphonic beauty is remarkable by its own right, and important in the selling of the sweep of this film.

The score for this film is one of the best I have ever heard.

All in all, the film is plenty conventional, even in a portrayal of Ancient Rome that is about as thin as a lot of the characterization, and as contrived as the melodramatics which slow down the impact of momentum almost as much as dull and draggy spells, thus making for a script whose shortcomings are challenged well enough by a powerful score, immersively beautiful visual style, solid direction, and strong lead acting for Henry Koster's «The Robe» to stand as an adequately rewarding and very intriguing study on the impact Christ had even on those who brought about his demise.

Falling just one film — and two points — short of «perfection,» ARC scored negative reviews for eight of its nine releases last year.

Blended is generally a terrible film, mostly due to the lacklustre performance of comedy stars Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, however, Terry Crews is in this film and once again manages to lift it from a score of 0 to a score of 10 for me.

Pixar's last two films — 2011's Cars 2 57 and last year's Brave 69 — were the lowest - scoring and (adjusting for inflation) lowest - grossing of the animation studio's impressive history.

Best animated film nominee The Croods, Fox's highest - grossing film last year (though with just $ 587 million worldwide, good for 11th place overall), was one of just two Oscar nominations for the studio (the other came for John Williams» Book Thief score).

In addition to his feature - film work, Garry Owen showed up in scores of short subjects for Hal Roach and MGM.

Music and Sound (16:00) heavily features legendary composer John Williams, in which he discusses how the subject matter of the film influenced the creation of the film's score, as well as how the numerous sound effects were researched and created for the film.

The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

While Glazer is the cinematic star and Johansson the on - screen one, the third person in this trifecta of awesome is composer Mica Levi and her score for the film.

As for the film itself, though Waititi includes aspects that play like genre parody — a montage scored to Leonard Cohen's interpretation of the «Song of the French Partisan» unexpectedly recalling McCabe & Mrs. Miller; a Mad Max - like chase climax; Lukasz Buda, Samuel Scott and Conrad Wedde's 1980s - style synthesizer - laden score — Hunt for the Wilderpeople is ultimately disarming in its innocent sincerity.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the woman who scored with another film portrayal of troubled youth in Thirteen, the look and sounds of the 1970s are accurately recreated, even if some of the costumes look like they are more suited for Halloween than the actual mid-1970s.

I really miss John Barry, after his departure from Bond we had to make do with some adequate scores over several years even from David Arnold, then along came a new Bond in the form of Mr Craig and wow DA really found the formula for Bond and composed two truly magnificent scores if only he could have done Skyfall, that said lets give Thomas Newman a chance see the film with the score then listen to the score as stand alone then we can judge, one thing, I really wish just once they could use John Barry's brilliant 007 theme in a sequence just for old times sake and as a tribute to the man that gave Bond so much.

The film starts promisingly, opening with a foreboding shot of a girl wandering through Griffith Park, scored with ominous guitar squalls courtesy of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, who composed the film's score, setting the tone for a film much weirder and more interesting than the one that follows.

EXTRAS: In addition to an audio commentary by director Travis Knight, there's a series of featurettes on making the film (from animating the monsters and water effects to composing the score), a closer look at the Japanese inspiration for the story and more.

It's been a great couple of weeks for Jennifer Lawrence scoring things that start with «h,» as The Hollywood Reporter announces that Edgar Ramirez is in final negotiations to play her husband in Joy, David O. Russell's next film.

A number of mainstream film critics have hailed his work on the new film — virtually unheard - of for a traditional, orchestral, «proper» film score in the 21st century.

There's also a nearly 20 - minute piece with Alan Howarth, who worked on the film's score with Carpenter — That one goes on a bit longer than it needs to, although it's interesting to learn that there's a demand for Howarth to do live performances of the music.

Pushing a message as frothy as this one with points scored along political lines and with an almost complete lack of syrupy sentimentality to gum up the works, the film's inevitable box - office victory (penguins are more of a sure thing nowadays than Harry Potter) is cause for celebration, in no small part because Miller is one of the few directors who deserves the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants.

That's right, the ATP Iceland music festival taking place in July of 2016 has officially booked John Carpenter for his first ever live performance of his film scores and new compositions.

At around 2 am (sorry, I didn't keep track of the time for this one like I usually do), we got our first break from his traditional giallo with Suspiria, a film that serves up the elaborate death scenes (and Goblin score!)

Many modern day horror films often opt for «cheap scares» by turning down the score and all of a sudden have something jump into the screen.

Listening to the score by itself, though, provides a new level of respect for Martinez's restraint and a new appreciation for just how much the film improves with the aid of the music.

His latest hot tip is that director Rob Reiner is looking for someone to be in his film, and Dickie becomes obsessed with scoring the role, and while Reiner feels he would be perfect for the part, he also thinks he doesn't have the experiences of a normal person to truly deliver a genuinely truthful performance, never really having a typical life.

A smaller film like Before Midnight was never going to be in with a shot for any of the main categories but its witty and intelligent script, co-written by director Richard Linklater and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, should have scored an original screenplay nod.