May 18
LMS brings you the biggest movie industry news from the past week, in brief.
Vaughn and Ferrell in Daddy’s Home
Comedy stars Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell are reuniting to star in a film entitled ‘Daddy’s Home’. While very little is known about the film at this point, it is believed that Ferrell will …
Aug 20
This is one of those soundtracks that you don’t forget. Paul Thomas Anderson is arguably the modern filmmaker who best understands the role of music within his movies (see: Magnolia), and in There Will Be Blood he ingeniously assigned the creative role to Radiohead’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who had never done a film …
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 21
No Country For Old Men contains the least actual music in a soundtrack I have ever reviewed; apparently only 16 minutes of score appear in the movie itself. This works in its favour, not because Carter Burwell is a bad composer (he’s always been brilliant), but because what makes this Texan …
Jan 16
Ennio Morricone, God of Spaghetti Western music, began his fruitful career as a film composer with his friend Sergio Leone’s unexpected hit A Fistful of Dollars, the first of the director’s highly praised ‘Dollars Trilogy’ that all starred Clint Eastwood as “the man with no name”. Although this film is not the best of the …
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