Posts Tagged ‘Michel Legrand’

Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the drama May December. The album features the music from the film, including original score cues composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, Wonder, The Equalizer 3, Emancipation, The Affair, Ray Donovan), as well as tracks from the 1971 feature The Go-Between written by Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown […]

Columbia Records will release a new soundtrack album for the 1983 musical drama Yentl co-written and directed by Barbra Streisand and starring Streisand herself, Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving. The album features the Streisand-performed original songs from the movie written by Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair, Summer of ’42, Never Say Never Again The […]

La-La Land Records has announced a soundtrack album for Orson Welles’ final movie The Other Side of the Wind. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair, Yentl, Summer of ’42, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Never Say Never Again). The CD version of the soundtrack is […]

Michel Legrand (1932 – 2019)

Posted: January 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Michel Legrand has passed away today at age 86 in Paris, France. The composer has written over 200 film/TV scores and songs over a five-decade spanning career. He received three Academy Awards for his scores for Robert Mulligan’s Summer of ’42 and Barbra Streisand’s Yentl and the song The Windmills of Your Mind from Norman Jewison’s The Thomas […]

Variety is reporting that in addition to Green Book, three more scores have been ruled ineligible by the Academy’s music branch. Among ineligible titles are Solo: A Star Wars Story (composed by John Powell with themes by John Williams), which was reportedly submitted too late, Mandy (composed by Johann Johannsson), which violated the rule of its qualifying […]

Three new movies are opening in theaters nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the biographical drama Bohemian Rhapsody directed by Bryan Singer and starring Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aiden Gillen, Tom Hollander and Mike Myers. The movie doesn’t feature an original score. Hollywood Records has […]

Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the thriller Bad Samaritan directed by Dean Devlin and starring David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon, Carlito Olivero, Jacqueline Byers, Tracey Heggins and Robert P. Nagle. The film’s original music is composed by Joseph LoDuca (The Evil Dead, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The […]

Variety is reporting that Michel Legrand is currently scoring Orson Welles’ final film The Other Side of the Wind. The satire starring John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg & Oja Kodar was shot between 1970 and 1976 and never finished and released until restoration work began a few years ago. The movie follows the […]

Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jim Copperthwaite. Also included is the score for the 1971 film Le Mans composed by Michel Legrand. The soundtrack will be released on November 6, 2015 and is now […]

Playtime will release a soundtrack album for the comedy The Price of Fame (La rançon de la gloire). The album features the film’s original music written and conducted by Academy Award-winning composer Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair, Yentl, Never Say Never Again). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 5, 2015 and is […]