Big Sounds International has released a soundtrack album for the indie romantic comedy Celeste and Jesse Forever. The album features the film’s songs by artists including Lily Allen, Brenda Russell, Vetiver, Mr. Little Jeans, Shabazz Palaces and Boogaloo Assassins, as well as two songs by Sunny Levine who also co-scored the film with DJ Zach Cowie (also known as Turquoise Wisdom). None of the film’s score is included on the soundtrack, which is now available to download on Amazon. Audio clips are available after the jump. Celeste and Jesse Forever is directed by Lee Toland Krieger and written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack who are also starring in the film alongside Andy Samberg, Chris Messina, Emma Roberts, Ari Graynor and Elijah Wood. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was released in theaters this summer by Sony Pictures Classics.
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Sundance 2012 Film Music Roundup (Part 1)
Over the next week, we will be looking at the music and composers of some of the most high profile titles premiering at the Sundance Film Festival that haven’t been covered yet on this page.
One of the best reviewed film so far at the festival is the documentary West of Memphis directed by Amy Berg who had been Academy Award-nominated for the 2006 movie Deliver Us from Evil. West of Memphis produced by Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh (The Lord of the Rings), Lorri Davis and Damien Echols centers on the wrongful conviction case of three Arkansas teenagers (known as the West Memphis Three) who were found guilty in 1994 of the ritual murder of three eight-year-old boy. The film’s music is written by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road).