I think game scores and game composers, they're notoriety and their success and elevating the idea of the game scores more to the level of
quality of a film score — that's going to continue to grow as the interactive aspects of the music grow.
Not exact matches
As always, the
quality of those
films varied widely, taking in
films that were among the year's best (including drama 45 Years, 2015's # 2 overall
film) and among the year's worst The Human Centipede III, which
scored lower than all but one
film last year).
Powell has
scored most
of Liman's previous
films, which have varied in
quality from The Bourne Identity through to Jumper.
It was the first
of four collaborations between Thompson and composer Jerry Goldsmith, coming before The Reincarnation
of Peter Proud, Caboblanco and King Solomon's Mines - none
of them is a great movie but the
quality of the
scores go to show the affection Goldsmith must have had for the director (who also made
films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman, Elmer Bernstein, John Williams and John Barry - an unbelievable fact which I doubt could be matched by any other director).
Here, his
score functions as something like the sieve
of the page — watching a
film with his soundtrack suggests an approximation
of the literal detachment
of reading a book; as Candyman unfurls, defenses fall away and the fable - like
quality of the story gains a kind
of archetypal weight.
Re-teaming with Nick Cave, who was also behind the script for Hillcoat's debut «Ghosts...
of the Civil Dead,» the story takes on the mythic
qualities of some
of Cave's best work, helped in no small part by his
score with fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis — probably our favorite
of the musician's
film work.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a rather frustrating
film to review as it's a piece
of immense
quality, boasting impeccable performances, a strong sense
of tone and a stellar
score, but, in the end, there's just no denying that this simply isn't a
film for me.
The «organic»
quality of the sound work also bled into the
film's
score: Bigelow hadn't originally planned to have music in the
film, but when that idea changed, Ottosson and composer Marco Beltrami («3:10 to Yuma») worked together to blur the line between sound and music.
Hans Zimmer's all electronic
score is also something quite beautiful, enhancing the endearing
quality of a
film peppered with a series
of grueling sequences, such as Chappie's being abused by a group
of callous youth before he's physically butchered by Jackman's cruel antagonist.
And yet, for all
of its wealth in terms
of performances, cinematography,
scoring, and period, the one inescapable
quality lacking that keeps True Grit a good
film with great moments, rather than a purely great one, is the muted emotional punch.
The breakneck pace and scuzzy desperation
of Connie's quest gives the
film — which takes place entirely over the course
of one night — a certain fun - house
quality, enhanced by the delirious close - up cinematography, aggressively stylized lighting, and synthesizer
score.