Sentences with phrase «writing scores for film»

In addition to his real estate accomplishments, he is an accomplished musician, writing scores for film and television, including a Gemini nominated feature film.

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He wrote the celebrated score for Bugsy Malone, and appeared in numerous films himself — stealing the show as a wisecracking bootlegger in Smokey and the Bandit.

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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.

And only Jerry Goldsmith could write a score as sophisticated and complex as Inchon «s for a film like Inchon — the ultimate professional.

The movie also features appearances by Rebecca Henderson (from «Appropriate Behavior «-RRB-, Heather Lind («Boardwalk Empire») and Michael Chemus («Captain Phillips «-RRB- Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips (from the band Luna) composed the movie's score (they wrote some music for previous Baumbach films and Wareham has a hilarious cameo in «While We're Young»).

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).

I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.

Under Taylor's direction, that film was one of the top box office success stories of 2011, scoring four Oscar nominations including Best Picture, though none for Taylor's own direction or writing of the film.

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 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 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.

Williams has written the complete scores for all eight of the main Star Wars films, winning an Oscar for the 1977 original and nominations for three of the other seven.

It's done quite well at the box office though, and was one of three films scored by Trevor Rabin which all appear in the Box Office Top Ten in the same week, at the time of writing this review - quite a feat for the composer.

It's ironic really - the usual reasons that people wheel out to criticise Horner albums which don't deserve it can't be used - there is little or no overlap with previous scores, no overwrought sentiment or emotion - just music that can't really live away from the film for which it was written.

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

Mansell then wrote the score for Aronofsky's next film, Requiem for a Dream, which has been well received.

E.T. is one of those incredible filmmaking moments where the perfect score was written for the perfect movie and I'm confident that it will go down in history as one of the greatest film scores ever written.

He obviously wouldn't be scoring a film like this if he hadn't chosen to go that way — I'm sure he would be writing interesting music for something, but probably not earning nearly as much for doing so, so nobody could begrudge him what he's done.

Carter Burwell wrote the scores for two very different films this year, the child - centered «Wonderstruck» and the violence - themed «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

Williams will write the theme for 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story, but the majority of it will be scored by John Powell, who's best known for scoring animated films like Shrek and the excellent How To Train Your Dragon, for which he received Oscar and BAFTA nominations.

Once again, Alexander Desplat has written the score for Anderson's latest and the film will arrive on March 7, 2014 which we're already speculating could mean a premiere in Berlin.

According to Southpaw director Antoine Fuqua — who worked with the composer on the boxing film — he was astonished to learn that Horner wrote another entire score for his next film, a new version of The Magnificent Seven.

And Carter Burwell delivers a score that, while not the best he would write for the Coens — that would wait for one more film — remains his most wildly inventive, a giddy mishmash of banjo, organ, whistling, and yodeling that plays like the mutant offspring of Marvin Hamlisch and Ennio Morricone.

Directed by Oscar ® winner Bill Condon from a screenplay by TBD based on the 1991 animated film, the film 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 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 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.

Directed by: Dean DeBlois Written by: Dean DeBlois Main Cast: Voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Djimon Hounsou, Christopher Mintz - Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and others Past Oscar relations: The first film in the franchise was nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score Here -LSB-...]

It's certainly better than the vast majority of film composers would manage for this type of film, but to be honest Goldsmith has written far better scores for the genre both before and since.

Since attracting rather a lot of attention, and some well - earned praise, from the film scoring community after writing an effective score for John Frankenheimer's enjoyable thriller Ronin (and replacing no lesser figure than Jerry Goldsmith on the film), it seemed that Elia Cmiral was destined for big things.

It's good, old - fashioned filmmaking and would have been fertile territory for any film composer - and Milius enticed one of the best, Jerry Goldsmith, to write what was essentially his first large - scale adventure score - the epics he had worked on previously had all been more adult - themed than this romp.

«Dream, little one, dream Oh, the hunter in the night Fills your childish heart with fright Fear is only a dream So dream, little one, dream...» Those lines, from the score «Lullaby», written by Walter Schumann, are profoundly unsettling, partially because a choir of children credulously sing them, but also because of the creepy - crawly context of the film for which... Read more»

The late and seriously under - appreciated composer Michael Small wrote one of his best scores for the film, providing some stirring symphonic passages and atmospheric synth material.

On that score, the film, written by John Ridley, is entirely convincing in presenting the brutal realities of slavery, as experiencing in a horrible waking nightmare for a dozen unrelenting years by Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

In 1961 Jarre's music career experienced a major change when British film producer Sam Spiegel asked him to write the score for the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean.

«There's this organ arpeggio in [Jean - Pierre Melville's 1967 film] Le Samouraï that I definitely was thinking of when I wrote those parts on «American Sports»,» he said about Roubaix's score for the movie.

IFMCA member James Southall said that War for the Planet of the Apes was «not just the best film music [Giacchino has] ever written» but that «the manner of the score, the construction of the dramatic narrative, [and] the very deliberate emotional prods... make it stand out as a special achievement».

Not long after the tragic death of the great James Horner in mid-2015, director Antoine Fuqua — whose Southpaw was one of the last films the composer completed work on — revealed that Horner had not only agreed to score his remake of The Magnificent Seven, he had actually already begun to write music for it based on the script (it was still being filmed at the time).

Is this the greatest score ever written for a truly abominable film?

As artistic director Peter von Bagh writes, the aim is «to make film screenings shimmer like live performances — through our efforts to guarantee the original format, the best technical care...» (1) And indeed thanks to that care, which includes live accompaniment by great musicians or the use of a large orchestra for new commissioned scores, or again the availability of new and recently restored prints within the walking space of four close venues, the experience of watching a film becomes something unique, a concert - like event.

For all Lehman's razor - sharp writing, Hitchcock's expert pacing, Bernard Herrmann's superb fandango - inspired score, and James Mason and Martin Landau's silky villains (Landau possibly in love with Mason, and certainly jealous of his affection for Eva Marie Saint's luxuriant mystery - woman), the film belongs above all to GraFor all Lehman's razor - sharp writing, Hitchcock's expert pacing, Bernard Herrmann's superb fandango - inspired score, and James Mason and Martin Landau's silky villains (Landau possibly in love with Mason, and certainly jealous of his affection for Eva Marie Saint's luxuriant mystery - woman), the film belongs above all to Grafor Eva Marie Saint's luxuriant mystery - woman), the film belongs above all to Grant.

Brian Eno is to write the score for the next film by Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings.

99 % of the time, Goldsmith simply wrote the appropriate score for the film at hand.

DVD Extras It is interesting to hear Marilyn Manson discussing his experiences writing the music for the film in the Scoring featurette.

The Program is focused on supporting accomplished composers from a wide range of musical backgrounds, which may include composers with previous experience writing for film as well as accomplished composers working outside of film whose work is suitable for film scoring.

The win was only the latest in a banner season for the songwriters, who met at the University of Michigan, have written several scores both on and off Broadway, and won an Oscar for their contributions to the score of the hit film La La Land.

Carnage Directed by: Roman Polanski Starring: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet Rating: R Release Date: December 16, 2011 TRAILER SCORE: 8/10 Thoughts by TSR: In August I wrote very positively about the international trailer for this film.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Directed by: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor Starring: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, Ciarán Hinds Rating: PG - 13 Release Date: February 17, 2012 TRAILER SCORE: 7/10 Thoughts by TSR: When I wrote about an earlier trailer for this film, I said how I was surprised it was even being made.

On the contrary, the man has scored more than 90 films since the Coen brothers first hired him to write the music for their debut, 1984's Blood Simple.

Paterson Rated R for some language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96 % Adam Driver (Silence, The Force Awakens) stars in this indie Jim Jarmusch film about a bus driver named Paterson, who lives in Paterson, NJ and who likes to write poetry.

James Horner was originally slated to score 1993 film, became unavailable, but did write haunting theme for Sarah, aka Garden Of Magic, beautifully sung by Sarah Jessica Parker.

She's also written for Cineaste, Fandor, Cinedelica, and Paracinema Magazine and has contributed liner notes for film scores released on Harkit Records.

The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st nomination for Meryl Streep (though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner coming into today noms and which had seven nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.

Morricone has written hundreds of scores for cinema and television, and is one of the only film composers to have received an honorary Oscar for his lifetime achievement.