Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for Xavier Dolan’s French Canadian limited series The Night Logan Woke Up. The album features the show’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Dune, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Man of Steel) and David Fleming (The Last of Us, The Unforgivable, Hillbilly Elegy). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 17. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. The Night Logan Woke Up is written and directed by Dolan based on Michel Marc Bouchard’s stage play and stars Julie Le Breton, Anne Dorval, Patrick Hivon, Jasmine Lemée and Pier-Gabriel Lajoie. The 5-part psychological thriller is set in the early 1990s and follows a group of teenagers whose friendship is torn apart when one of them commits a crime.
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‘Matthias & Maxime’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Mercury Classics will release a soundtrack album for Xavier Dolan’s French-Canadian drama Matthias & Maxime. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jean-Michel Blais who made his feature film scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 25 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list. A vinyl edition is set to come out the following week and is available for pre-order here. Matthias & Maxime is written and directed by Dolan and stars Gabriel D’Almeida Fritas, Dolan, himself, Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Pilon and Harris Dickinson.
Gabriel Yared to Score Xavier Dolan’s ‘The Death and Life of John F. Donovan’
Gabriel Yared is reteaming with director Xavier Dolan on the upcoming drama The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. The film marks Dolan’s English-language debut and stars Kit Harington, Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Ben Schnetzer, Michael Gambon, Bella Thorne, Thandie Newton, Chris Zylka and Emily Hampshire. The movie takes place in the early 2000’s and centers on the tribulations of an American TV star in his late twenties and his correspondence with Rupert Turner, a young actor-to-be living with his mother in England.
Soundrack for Xavier Dolan’s ‘It’s Only the End of the World’ to Be Released
Quartet Records will release a soundtrack album for Xavier Dolan’s drama It’s Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1408, Cold Mountain) who previously scored the director’s previous film Tom at the Farm. Also included are the songs featured in the movie by Camille, Blink-182, Grimes, Exotica and Moby. The physical version will be released later this week and is now available for pre-order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples. A digital version will be released later this year and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It’s Only the End of the World is written and directed by Dolan and stars Marion Cotillard, Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel.
Gabriel Yared Scoring Xavier Dolan’s ‘It’s Only the End of the World’
Gabriel Yared is reuniting with director Xavier Dolan on the upcoming drama It’s Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde). The film is written and directed by Dolan (Mommy, I Killed My Mother) and stars Marion Cotillard, Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel. The movie is based on a play by Jean-Luc Lagarce of the same name and follows a terminally ill writer who returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying. Dolan is also producing the project with his producing partner Nancy Grant, alongside Nathanael Karmitz (On the Road, Certified Copy) and Sylvain Corbeil (Felix and Meira).
‘Tom at the Farm’ Soundtrack Details
A soundtrack album will be released for Xavier Dolan’s drama Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1408). The soundtrack will be released on March 24, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Tom at the Farm is co-written and directed by Dolan who also stars in the film alongside Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu, Manuel Tadros, Jacques Lavallee, Anne Caron and Olivier Morin. The French drama about a a gay man who attends his lover’s funeral only to learn that none of his friends and family knew of the deceased’s sexuality nor their relationship premiered at last year’s Venice and Toronto Film Festival and will be released in France next month.
Gabriel Yared Scoring ‘A Promise’ and ‘Tom at the Farm’
Gabriel Yared has composed the music for the upcoming romantic drama A Promise. The film is directed by Patrice Leconte (The Widow of Saint-Pierre, Monsieur Hire) and stars Alan Rickman, Rebecca Hall and Richard Madden. The movie based on Stefan Zweig’s novella Journey into the Past is set in Germany just before WWI and centers on an older, wealthy man who falls hopelessly in love with her husband’s teacher. When the war breaks out and they are separated, they pledge their devotion to one another. The drama marks the English language feature debut of Leconte who has also co-written the screenplay with Jerome Tonnerre (Renoir, Intimate Strangers). Marc Missonnier & Olivier Delbosc (The Next Three Days, Swimming Pool, Enter the Void) are producing the project for Fidelite Films.