Apr 20
LMS brings you the biggest movie industry news from the past week, in brief.
The Croods due for a sequel
The recent successful animated film from Dreamworks is going to get a sequel. Having already impressed at the box office since its release in March, the original writers and directors are expected to …
May 07
Stanley Kubrick’s swansong Eyes Wide Shut, the so-called erotic thriller, perhaps more aptly described as a ‘psychological rape’ of a movie, was released in 1999 only a handful of days before the director’s death. In it, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise (who were married at the time of filming) play a couple who’s love and …
Nov 28
How does one go about representing rape and ultra-violence with music? In 1971, your best bet would have been to use the strange and relatively new instrument called the synthesizer. This is exactly how Wendy Carlos (then Walter) created the score for Stanley Kubrick’s infamous Clockwork Orange, producing a harsh and hypnotic sound collage …
Sep 19
Set in the illustrious eighteenth century and detailing the exploits of an Irish peasant who, through gambling, fraud, and murder, works his way up into the English aristocracy, Stanley Kurbick’s 3-hour period drama Barry Lyndon is not a light-hearted film by any means. The score, which is solely compiled from pieces of music …