Varese Sarabande Records will release Lorne Balfe’s original score for the action adventure movie Ironclad directed by Jonathan English and starring Brian Cox, Paul Giamatti, Kate Mara, James Purefoy and Derek Jacobi. The album includes 18 tracks of score. The soundtrack will be released on March 1, 2011 and will exclusively be available on iTunes in the US, while a physical CD is coming out in Europe. The movie is scheduled for a March 4 release in the UK, while no domestic release date has been announced.
Here’s the album tracklisting:
1. The Magna Carte (4:17)
2. King John Arrives (2:07)
3. God Protect Us (1:56)
4. Mobilizing (1:17)
5. We Claim This Castle (1:28)
6. The Art of Naivety (1:53)
7. The Battle Begins (6:31)
8. Marshall and Isabel (1:42)
9. Dilectio (1:34)
10. Insidiae (3:22)
11. Hunger Sets In (2:32)
12. Desparatus (2:54)
13. Ciminatio (9:24)
14. No Salvation (1:43)
15. Concursus (3:34)
16. The Final Battle (6:54)
17. Final Resolution (1:45)
18. Corvus Cantus (2:38)
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This is probably one of the best thing about the movie itself.
Ironclad is one of the most brutal in-your-face violent Brit-flicks (and not just British to be honest) I’ve ever seen.
In fact it’s the violence itself that seems to be Ironclad’s selling point. It’s obviously all sold as “realism” but we all know that in this case it’s just another word for gratuitous and exploitive.
And so as the handheld-shaky-cam swings about and the editing goes crazy hiding the pretty low-budget, limbs fly left, right and centre, hands get chopped off, people get literally sliced in two in the bloodiest and ruthless gore-fest you’ll ever seen.
It is a small British film, and yet the choral soundtrack makes it all feel even bigger that it is.
My full review here:
http://wp.me/s19wJ2-1074