These include an introduction by Martin Scorsese, a commentary
with film composer David Newman and film historians Jon Burlingame, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman, a making - of featurette, a look at the music of The Robe (the Alfred Newman's score has an isolated music track), still galleries and an interactive press book.
Not exact matches
Creativity will be the keyword of the evening as it will feature
film screening and original live music
with the performance of
composer Pete Drungle on archive images from Gaumont
film studio.
The movie was nominated for an impressive 13 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielburg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), Best Supporting Actress Nominations for Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, along
with Best Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Best Original Musical Score for a Motion Picture (Quincy Jones) which was the first time in any Spielburg produced
film that
composer John Williams did not compose a
film score for a Spielburg movie.
The
film blends archival footage
with illuminating interview segments featuring some of Russell's colleagues and most notable collaborators, including poet Allen Ginsberg,
composer Philip Glass and indie pop sensation Jens Lekman.
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 years now,
composers of all kinds have been hosting live performances of their favorite work, usually shown alongside
with the
film during the orchestration.
For more than a decade, IFMCA award - winning
composer Olivier Derivière (Remember Me, Assassin's Creed IV Freedom Cry) has been scoring music for animation,
films, and video games and is widely acclaimed for both his composition and innovative approaches to connecting music
with the game experience.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
FILMS Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (R for graphic sexuality and nudity) Romance drama, set in Paris in the Twenties, abut the scandalous affair conducted by a famous French clothes designer (Anna Mouglalis)
with the promising classical
composer (Mads Mikkelsen) whose penniless, refugee family she let live in her villa after they escaped the Russian Revolution.
Granted by France's Society of Dramatic Authors and
Composers, the SACD Award for best French - language
film went to Pierre Salvadori's screwball crime romcom «The Trouble
with You.»
Superlative work is also done by multiple Oscar - nominees Bruno Delbonnel (the cinematographer who worked
with Burton on Dark Shadows in 2012), and Danny Elfman (the
composer who has written wonderful scores for many Burton
films beginning
with Bettlejuice in 1988).
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
Add to that crazy killer baby bit a very suspenseful score by
composer Bernard Herrmann and you have a classic
film that startles us time and time again
with its off - screen shenanigans.
Rob Cohen makes his first
film since the awful Stealth, and reunites
with his favourite
composer Randy Edelman, who continues in the series which began so strong musically
with Jerry Goldsmith's rollicking adventure score, before the considerably - inferior sequel which had its overbearing (but unbelievably popular) Alan Silvestri one.
Evanescence star Amy Lee has just completed work on her first
film score after teaming up
with composer Dave Eggar for independent drama War...
Petersen has been eclectic when choosing
composers in the past, but seemed to get a safe pair of hands here
with James Newton Howard, who wasn't exactly the A-lister he is today, but had a solid enough body of work behind him on this kind of
film.
Interviews
with several of the
film's actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Thomas Jane, Elias Koteas, Dash Mihok, and Sean Penn;
composer Hans Zimmer; editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein; and writer James Jones's daughter Kaylie Jones
Directed by Oscar ® winner Bill Condon based on the 1991 animated
film, «Beauty and the Beast» is produced by Mandeville Films» David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman
with eight - time Oscar - winning
composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards ® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated
film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar winner Tim Rice.
Composer Howard Shore, who won an Oscar for the first
film, again provides an elegant score befitting an epic,
with haunting soulfulness in emotional scenes.
THE SHERMAN BROTHERS: A HOLLYWOOD SONGBOOK — June 20 — 7:30 p.m. Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Beverly Hills
With Oscar - winning
composers Richard M. Sherman and Michael Giacchino,
film critic Leonard Maltin, Oscar - winning director Pete Docter, Oscar - winning producer Jonas Rivera, actors Dick Van Dyke, Anthony Gonzalez, B.J. Novak, Lesley Ann Warren, Grammy ® - winning performers LeAnn Rimes and Kenny Loggins and more.
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.
By bringing Lamar on board and employing Ludwig Göransson (a longtime collaborator
with Coogler who has also worked
with Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino) as the
film's principal
composer, Marvel are finally broadening their symphonic horizons.
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.
Additionally, there's a new featurette on the
film's visual effects, new interviews
with composer Alan Howarth, actor Joe Unger, still photographer Kim Gottlieb - Walker and filmmaker David DeCoteau, as well as a previously released featurette and the original opening bank robbery sequence.
He often collaborates
with his wife, producer Emma Thomas, and his brother, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, as well as cinematographer Wally Pfister,
film editor Lee Smith,
composers David Julyan and Hans Zimmer, special effects coordinator Chris Corbould, and actors Christian Bale and Michael Caine.
The
composer messed
with the pitch and tone of what she wrote, «perverting material,» as she calls it, to create a finished product that's just as responsible for the
film's nervy, agitated, unshakable tone as Glazer and DP Daniel Landin «s haunted imagery.
LIFE marks his sixth project
with director Daniel Espinosa, having previously composed music for his
films Babylonsjukan, Outside Love, Snabba Cash, and Child 44, and the Danish short
film The Boxer, which was his first work as a
composer.
The screening was part of
Film Independent at LACMA's ongoing
film series and featured a Q&A afterward
with del Toro, actors Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, and
composer Alexandre Desplat.
It comes
with three commentary tracks: the first by Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, the second by cast & crew (producer Irwin Winkler,
composer Robbie Robertson, actor John Turturro (who was an extra in the
film), cinematographer Michael Chapman and others) and the third by the «storytellers» (Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, Jason Lustig and Jake La Motta).
Composer Lorne Balfe [TERMINATOR GENISYS, CHURCHILL, THE STORY OF GOD WITH MORGAN FREEMAN] is a Grammy Award - winning, EMMY and BAFTA nominated film composer from Inverness, S
Composer Lorne Balfe [TERMINATOR GENISYS, CHURCHILL, THE STORY OF GOD
WITH MORGAN FREEMAN] is a Grammy Award - winning, EMMY and BAFTA nominated
film composer from Inverness, S
composer from Inverness, Scotland.
What makes this one worth buying is the new commentary
with Tim Burton and
composer Danny Elfman, as well as the original poem and concept art the
film was based on, read by Christopher Lee.
Filled
with exquisite imagery, the
film follows Fred (Caine), a retired longtime
composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter (Weisz) and best friend, renowned filmmaker, Mick (Keitel) who is working on his last screenplay, for a brief sojourn in the Swiss Alps.
During our chat we touched on why the
film is only 58 minutes long and whether there was any intention to extend it, whether Refn believes he should have won the Palme d'Or, why he switched from
composer Peter Peter to working
with Cliff Martinez, how they had little boosts of money that helped get the
film made, why the
film is just now coming out instead of closer to Only God Forgives «release, whether Refn ever wanted to stop being
filmed, the commercial prospects of an hour long documentary, and much more.
The
film, featuring a score by Tony - winning
composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, also stars Lin - Manuel Miranda, Colin Firth, and Meryl Streep, marking Blunt's third collaboration
with Streep following The Devil Wears Prada and Into the Woods.
The week before Thanksgiving we screened Creed
with writer - director Ryan Coogler, a loyal USC alumni, and his colleagues, most of whom attended school
with him and worked on his first feature, Fruitvale Station: co-writer Aaron Covington,
composer Ludwig Göransson, and
film editors Michael Shawver and Claudia Castello.
It was a memorable night for my class, following a strong semester
with a wide array of guests and
films, from documentarian Ondi Timoner (
with her Russell Brand feature Brand: A Second Coming) to
composer Harry Gregson - Williams (
with The Martian), Oscar - winning production designer Adam Stockhausen (
with Bridge of Spies), writer Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, who co-directed the offbeat animated feature Anomalisa.
But that's what we were going to get
with Hulk until a few weeks before its release date, when someone at Universal thought that instead of one of the least well - suited
composers for silly comicbook
films they would be better - served by the most well - suited, so they turned to Danny Elfman, veteran of Batman and Spiderman.
Levinson always picks the perfect
composer for each
film he scores rather than rigidly sticking
with the same one, and the roster of
composers with whom he has worked is a virtual who's who of the
film music business - Alex North, Bruce Broughton, John Williams, Randy Newman, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Young, and others.
With an operatic sweep, the
composer has fashioned music which manages to conjure the same type of powerfully anguished beauty as the great Georges Delerue did in his scores for more serious
films.
Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award winning «La La Land»
composer Justin Hurwitz talks crafting the
film's most challenging song, «Start a Fire», and collaborating
with superstar John Legend.
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.
EE: I continue to try and select excellent
films that could suffer without a great score and offer my helping hand, because I'll be completely honest
with you, I don't have a lot of faith in the other
film composers out there.
Composer Justin Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul contribute a pleasing score,
with the kind of earnest verse («Here's to the ones who dream / Foolish as they may seem / Here's to the hearts that ache / Here's to the mess we make») on which Demy
films thrived.
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: The Blu - ray release includes Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 short
film «Blossoms & Blood,» a new interview
with composer Jon Brion, behind - the - scenes footage from one of Brion's recording sessions, deleted scenes, an essay by filmmaker Miranda July and more.
But he, together
with his brilliant editor Peter Hunt (like Bond stalwarts Saltzmann and
composer John Barry, invaluable, we'll discuss his contribution later) shook up the language of
film to a mad degree to make us, the viewer, step firmly into Harry's irreverent shoes as an outsider, bucking the system, and off - kilter in a paranoid world.
The
film was shot by the great Roger Deakins, surely one of the top cinematographers of the last half a century,
with American
composer Alaric Jans continuing his collaboration
with Mamet that would ultimately stretch to four feature
films.
Radiohead have announced that they are teaming up
with renowned
film soundtrack
composer Hans Zimmer to work on the score for the BBC's upcoming...
Steven Price is the very talented
composer behind the
film «Gravity», which ended up winning him last year's Oscar for Best Score (along
with numerous other awards).
There are a couple of familiar key tracks here (Hank Levy «s, which gives the
film its title, and Duke Ellington «s «Caravan,» among them), but an overwhelming amount of the music in the
film is original and from
composer Justin Hurwitz, who played in a band
with Chazelle at Harvard.