A video feature on the music for the international release of the epic adventure There Be Dragons has recently surfaced. The 10-minute video shows footage from the recording sessions of the score, as well as a conversation between composer Robert Folk and producer James Ordonez. Also featured is an interview with conductor David Sabee. Check out the full video after the jump. The soundtrack for There Be Dragons is available on Varese Sarabande Records. Check out our previous article for the full details and check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. The movie is directed by Roland Joffe and stars Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Rodrigo Santoro, Derek Jacobi and Olga Kurylenko.
Category: Composer Interviews
Christophe Beck on ‘Good Morning America’
This morning, ABC’s Good Morning America featured a 5-minute segment on composer Christophe Beck. ABC correspondent Cameron Mathison visited Beck at his studio in Santa Monica, where he talked to the composer about his recent score for Walt Disney Pictures’ The Muppets, his favorite scene from the movie and also asked him to score his own home video. Check out the full video after the jump. Beck’s music can currently be heard in the action romantic comedy This Means War starring Reese Witherspoon and next up for the composer is the sci-fi comedy Neighborhood Watch starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill.
Philip Glass 75th Birthday Interviews
Coinciding with the 75th birthday of Philip Glass on January 31, several interviews have appeared online, including a 30-minute video conversation with the Academy Award-nominated composer in CET Connect’s Focus series, in which he talks about his life and career, including his work for movies and the concert hall is and the world premiere of his Second Cello Concerto Life Reflected. Check out the full video after the jump. Another new interview with Glass was published on The Huffington Post focusing on his involvement in the annual Tibet House benefit. The article also confirms the composer’s involvement in Oldboy director Chan-woon Park’s Stoker. The film starring Matthew Goode, Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney and Jacki Weaver marks the director’s English language debut and centers on a teenage girl who must deal with the unexpected appearance of a mysterious uncle following the death of her father.
James Newton Howard Video Interview
Go See Talk has published a 30-minutes video conversation with James Newton Howard that was shot last week in Dallas, where he conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on his first full concert of his film work for The Masters of Film Music series. During the interview, the composer talks about his background and his first film score, his work methods and why he did not come back to score The Dark Knight Rises after his collaboration with Hans Zimmer on the first two scores for Christopher Nolan’s Batman series. He also hints about what to expect from the upcoming The Bourne Legacy score and whether or not he will be incorporating any of John Powell’s material from the previous Bourne films. Newton Howard has just recently finished writing and recording the score for the highly anticipated movie adaptation of The Hunger Games, for which he wrote roughly 80 minutes of music in about four weeks. Check out the full interview after the jump.
Ludovic Bource on ‘The Artist’
David Poland has published a 40-minutes video interview with composer Ludovic Bource in his DP/30 series. During the interview, Bource talks in detail about his work and inspirations for Michel Hazanavicius’ silent film The Artist starring Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Missi Pyle and Penelope Ann Miller. The composer also addresses Kim Novak’s recent comments about the use of Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo in the movie and talks about his musical background, as well as his previous collaboration with Hazanavicius on the OSS 117 movie series. Bource has already won several awards for The Artist, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association Movie Award and European Film Award. Bource is also nominated for a Golden Globe and will be attending the awards ceremony tonight in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack for The Artist is available on Sony Classical. Check out the full interview after the jump.
Michael Giacchino’s ‘Super 8’ Soundtrack in Concert
Last weekend, Michael Giacchino conducted a concert on the roof of J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot. The scores performed include the Bad Robots productions Super 8, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Star Trek and the TV show Lost. David Poland from Movie City News has published a video of the performance of the Super 8 suite from the concert and also interviewed the composer about his work on the film. Check out the full video below and visit Poland’s Hot Blog to download the suite.
Alexandre Desplat to Score Jacques Audiard’s ‘Rust and Bone’
Alexandre Desplat has revealed in a recent interview with Collider that he will be reuniting with French director Jacques Audiard this year. They have previously worked together on all of the director’s features including the crime drama A Prophet, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category two years ago. The director’s newest film is the drama Rust and Bone based on a short-story collection by Craig Davidson of the same title. The movie stars Marion Cotillard as a killer whale trainer who suffers a terrible accident during one evening’s performance and is left handicapped. Matthias Schoenarts, Celine Sallette and Bouli Lanners are co-starring. Audiard co-wrote the film’s screenplay with his writing partner on A Prophet, Thomas Bidegain and is also producing the film with Martine Cassinelli and Pascal Caucheteux. The movie is set for a release this fall in France.
The Sound and Music of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’
SoundWorks Collection has published a new video feature on the sound and music of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The video includes interviews with composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, sound re-recording Mixer Michael Semanick and re-recording Mixer, sound designer and supervising sound editor Ren Klyce. Check out the full video after the jump and visit our soundtrack announcement to learn more about the score, which has been nominated for a Golden Globe. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo based on the bestselling novel by Stieg Larsson and starring Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgard and Joely Richardson is now playing in theaters nationwide.
The Sound and Music of ‘War Horse’
SoundWorks Collection has published a new video profile on the sound and music of Steven Spielberg’s War Horse. The 12-minute video includes interviews with composer John Williams, as well as sound designer and re-recording mixer Gary Rydstrom. Check out the full video after the jump. War Horse marks Spielberg’s and Williams’ 25th collaboration. The soundtrack for the film is out on Sony Classical. Visit our album announcement for audio clips and more details and also check out another short video with the composer about his work on the epic adventure film on Trailer Addict.
The Sound and Music of ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’
SoundWorks Collection has posted a new profile on the sound and music of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. The video includes interviews with composer Michael Giacchino, director Brad Bird, as well as the film’s supervising ADR editor Gwen Whittle Yates and supervising sound editor Richard Hymns. Check out the full video that also features some footage from the score’s recording sessions after the jump. As previously announced, the soundtrack for the movie is coming out on CD on January 10, 2012 and it has recently already been released digitally and is now available to download on Amazon.