Oct 01
Going a little bit cult this week with the fantastically mind-boggling dark comedy, Being John Malkovich, in which an office-worker cum amateur puppeteer stumbles across a small portal that leads into the brain of Hollywood actor John Malkovich, allowing the user to “be” him for fifteen minutes, before being splurted out onto the New Jersey …
Jun 25
Ah-ue-ah-ue-ahhhhh!…… (woaw, woaw, woaw……..) Ah-ue-ah-ue-ahhhhh!…… (woaw, woaw, wowwhhh……….) as the popular refrain goes.
There’s something about that theme from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, beyond its position as the music of choice for any Western parodies. It conjures up thoughts of hideous, violent duels between dissatisfied bounty hunters on …
May 14
This is one of my favourite soundtracks for one of my favourite films. Jack Nitzsche, famous for his rock orchestrations and for being Phil Spector’s sideman, is under-appreciated in the film score realm. On Cuckoo’s Nest he stirs up some wonderful, manic, hypnotic, fun, nostalgic and crazy sounds that could not form a more perfect …
Nov 21
I need not say this; The Shawshank Redemption is a good film. But what about the music? Nobody ever talks about the music score that adorns the top-rated movie on IMDB. I don’t think the neglect is fair and for that reason, Shawshank will be my film soundtrack of the week this week.
Thomas Newman …
Oct 31
It’s Halloween, so for me to talk about anything other than a Tim Burton film this week would be almost sacrilegious. Sleepy Hollow is perhaps his best film, and the man responsible for the score is none other than Danny Elfman (who since has scored every other Tim Burton movie, not to mention the theme tune …
Sep 26
Duh, duh……………………………………………………………………..
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duh, duh………. duh, duh……… duh, duh……. duh, duh….. duh, duh, …duh, duh, Duh, Duh, Duh, Duh, DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH!DUH!DUH!DUH!DUH!DUH!DUH!DUH!!!!!!!!!!
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Very few film score motifs, and even fewer that contain just two notes, are as instantly recognisable and universally …
Sep 12
With a plot as crazy as this one, you need a particularly stirring score of music to effectively complement all the action. That is probably why Ron Howard called up Hans Zimmer to score Angels and Demons. Very few other Hollywood composers seem to be versatile enough to deliver music that accompanies characters simultaneously engaged …
Aug 31
This July, sheet music software giant Sibelius launched the latest edition of its highly esteemed (and very expensive) notation software, with previous editions already famed as the software of choice among contemporary classical musicians, film composers and music students alike. The program has always been marketed as a faster, cleaner alternative to writing scores using …
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