Matt Hall

Matt Hall

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Name: Matt Hall
Date registered: August 30, 2011

Biography

London-based composer musician, professional typist, blogger, philosopher, environmentalist.

Latest posts

  1. Matt’s Film Soundtrack Of The Week (20th May) – Synecdoche, New York — May 20, 2013
  2. This Week’s Film News — May 11, 2013
  3. Matt’s Film Soundtrack Of The Week (6th May) – Goldfinger — May 6, 2013
  4. This Week’s Film News — April 27, 2013
  5. Matt’s Film Soundtrack Of The Week (22nd April) – Doubt — April 22, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Syncing – The Film Composer’s Least Favourite Word — 6 comments
  2. Matt’s Film Soundtrack of the Week (23rd Jan) – Monsters Inc — 5 comments
  3. Matt’s Film Score of the Week (12th Sep) – Angels and Demons — 5 comments
  4. Matt’s Film Soundtrack of the Week (2nd Jan) – Almost Famous — 4 comments
  5. Free Creativity #3: Audacity — 3 comments

Author's posts listings

May 20

Matt’s Film Soundtrack Of The Week (20th May) – Synecdoche, New York

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Synecdoche, New York is made of the stuff that even film bloggers don’t understand (including us). It is a decidedly ‘multiple viewings needed’ film about a playwright, Caden Cotard, injecting his existential fears about death and loneliness into an increasingly large-scale autobiographical play, within which the same character puts on the same play, within which……

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May 11

This Week’s Film News

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film blog sandra bullock

LMS brings you the biggest movie industry news from the past week, in brief.

Gravity

Space movie lovers will be highly anticipating this new film from Alfonso Cuarón, in which astronauts George Clooney and Sandra Bullock (I know, a bit of a stretch) are left drifting around in space with chunks of their exploded …

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May 06

Matt’s Film Soundtrack Of The Week (6th May) – Goldfinger

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film blog goldfinger

With many people claiming that Skyfall is “the best James Bond film since Goldfinger“, I thought I’d revisit the Sean Connery classic this week and examine its musical merits. There are plenty.

With Goldfinger, the third in the series, John Barry, king of the Bond score, gave us not only the best song but the best (and …

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Apr 27

This Week’s Film News

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film blog channing tatum

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Guys & Dolls Remake?

Fox are looking into rebooting the hit musical with its Sinatra/Brano duo replaced by the much more alive Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Nothing is set in stone but, in an era when the centuries-old Les …

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Apr 22

Matt’s Film Soundtrack Of The Week (22nd April) – Doubt

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Streep and Hoffman begin their battle

Howard Shore is not my favourite film composer thanks to his occasionally committing the John Williams crime of noodling around in a particularly “pleasant” soundworld and not delivering any substance or development. I know that film music isn’t the same as concert music but, if you’re capable of doing interesting things, whatever the context, you …

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Apr 08

Matt’s Film Soundtrack Of The Week (8th April) – Moonrise Kingdom

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The clueless adults

Released last year to modest acclaim, this Wes Anderson gem slipped past mainstream moviegoers without much of a fuss; a shame, since it’s probably the director’s highest achievement so far. The clean, square look of the film, with its bright colour and child-like treatment of the story, works perfectly with its music, composed by Andre …

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Mar 18

Matt’s Film Soundtrack of the Week (18th March) – The Woman In Black

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Daniel Radcliffe should be used to ghosts by now

Horror is a variable genre when it comes to movie scores. It is a genre in which the most innovative music, the Psychos and the Shinings, sits alongside some of the worst in the industry. If you want to scare people, you can’t give them anything they are expecting, and so it is necessary to …

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Mar 04

Matt’s Film Soundtrack of the Week (4th March) – Schindler’s List

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Oscar Schindler (Liam Neeson) and Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley)

Thanks to Steven Spielberg’s affinity with family and adventure movies, a lot of John Williams’ scores are remembered for their bold, joyous melodies, magical glissandos and fat brassy statements that speak of worlds better than this one. In Schindler’s List, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Of course, not only does the movie deal …

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