Tag: music
Let Us Now Sing the Praises of Jonny Greenwood
This awards season seems to bring an embarrassment of riches in just how abundant the potential candidates for nominations are. Perhaps one of the toughest…
LFF Review: The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane‘s second feature to return to the London Film Festival, The Disciple, opens with a classical vocal chorus inter-cutting between two men…
Cinema Sevens: Legendary Film Composer Ennio Morricone Returns to the Heavens
In this world, there’s no way of accounting for the daily rate of births, and what life has in store for them. With loss, we…
Thomas Newman: A Rough Guide to Those Zero Oscars (and 15 Scores That Were Not Even Nominated)
When the brand new film by Sam Mendes, 1917, was screened for the first time, the critics went bananas. As they lauded pretty much everything…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: Once
One note, one chord, one lyric can connect us all to music. At any moment, a song or a voice can inspire you to want…
Arrival: Exclusive Interview with Director Aurora Fearnley and Composer Mike Ladouceur on the New Sci-Fi Short 'Pulsar'
At last year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival, the short sci-fi film from Aurora Fearnley, Pulsar, was on the out-of-competition line-up pre-release. Now, the brilliant little movie…
Max Richter's Score Drops for Mary Queen of Scots – One of the Year's Best
Following the premiere of the historical drama Mary Queen of Scots, on 15th November at the AFI Fest, the film now hits U.S. theaters. Mary…
LFF Exclusive: Chained for Life
Chained for Life opens with a quote by late critic Pauline Kael about actors being “more beautiful than ordinary people”. Kael made a good observation…
Femme Filmmakers Festival: Lisa E Williams Talks the Collaboration Between Music and Filmmaking
“I wanted to make a short film /documentary about where our stories come from, the real ones, the ones that make us who we are…”…
Video: (some of) the Music from the Coen Brothers Films
Oh how I wish the Coen brothers chapter of Filmotomy could go on a little longer. Same time next year? Let’s salute the brothers grim…
An Essenial Soundtrack for the Cinema of 1999
As part of the “Rewind: 1999 in Film” series at Filmotomy I pulled together a 10 minute video of some of the finest film scores…
Documentary Review – SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
With a name like Mick Rock, you would have been more surprised if he hadn’t pursued a life of Rock N’ Roll. SHOT! Is an odyssey…
The Writers Guild Of America Announced Their Annual List Of Nominees
There were some expected inclusions like Get Out, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and The Shape Of Water. But there were also some slight…
For Your Consideration: Hans Zimmer, Best Original Score, Dunkirk
If Nolan’s objective was to create an immersive experience, Zimmer’s score does much of the heavy lifting to achieve this. I can’t think of a score since John Williams’ Jaws soundtrack that has been as instrumental in achieving the director’s goals.
