Nominees in the categories of discovery of the year, public choice award and the new game music award have been revealed.
Film Fest Gent and The World Soundtrack Academy has unveiled the second and final wave of nominations for the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards, which will take place on October 21 at the Film Fest Gent in Belgium, with Golda, Avatar: The Way Of Water and The Menu among the additional titles represented.
Nominations for discovery of the year, public choice award, Wsa game music award, best original score for a Belgian production and the Sabam Award for best original composition by...
Film Fest Gent and The World Soundtrack Academy has unveiled the second and final wave of nominations for the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards, which will take place on October 21 at the Film Fest Gent in Belgium, with Golda, Avatar: The Way Of Water and The Menu among the additional titles represented.
Nominations for discovery of the year, public choice award, Wsa game music award, best original score for a Belgian production and the Sabam Award for best original composition by...
- 9/5/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Adult Swim‘s mini-series “Uzumaki,” based on the supernatural horror manga by legendary author Junji Ito, was announced way back in 2019, and, as of a year ago, delayed with no Eta. A brand new trailer unveiled today at San Diego Comic-Con indicates that the upcoming series may be more than worth the wait.
Check out the eerie new trailer below with stunning animation that seeks to capture Junji Ito’s nightmarish art style.
No release date has been announced just yet, but the unveiling of the new trailer means that we’re one step closer to seeing what madness Adult Swim and Junji Ito have in store.
Written and illustrated by Ito, the original manga series told the story of the citizens of Kurōzu-cho, a fictional city that is plagued by a supernatural curse involving spirals.
The “Uzumaki” manga series is made up of three volumes that were first published...
Check out the eerie new trailer below with stunning animation that seeks to capture Junji Ito’s nightmarish art style.
No release date has been announced just yet, but the unveiling of the new trailer means that we’re one step closer to seeing what madness Adult Swim and Junji Ito have in store.
Written and illustrated by Ito, the original manga series told the story of the citizens of Kurōzu-cho, a fictional city that is plagued by a supernatural curse involving spirals.
The “Uzumaki” manga series is made up of three volumes that were first published...
- 7/23/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Adult Swim‘s mini-series “Uzumaki,” based on the supernatural horror manga by legendary author Junji Ito, was announced way back in 2019, and, as of a year ago, delayed with no Eta. The series’ producers confirmed that the series is still in the works with an update at this year’s Anime Expo, Anime News Network reports.
At the Production I.G. x Wit Studio panel that took place over the weekend, Production I.G. USA President Maki Terashima-Furuta reassured fans that “Uzumaki” is still in the works, and “any news that it’s canceled should only be believed if it comes directly from her mouth.”
While that was the only mention of the adaptation at the panel, manga creator Junji Ito is a confirmed guest at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, which brings great potential for a more substantial update soon.
Written and illustrated by Ito, the original manga series...
At the Production I.G. x Wit Studio panel that took place over the weekend, Production I.G. USA President Maki Terashima-Furuta reassured fans that “Uzumaki” is still in the works, and “any news that it’s canceled should only be believed if it comes directly from her mouth.”
While that was the only mention of the adaptation at the panel, manga creator Junji Ito is a confirmed guest at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, which brings great potential for a more substantial update soon.
Written and illustrated by Ito, the original manga series...
- 7/6/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have taken part.
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have taken part.
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have taken part.
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Of all our craft Best of 2022 lists, film scores was the one where there was the widest list of nominees and least amount of consensus about a top 10. There was just such a wide variety of great work done that delineating what was best wasn’t always clear.
What was clear from our picks, however, was that a number of the best composers working today — from Michael Giacchino to Michael Abels — were on their game in 2022; it was also apparent that this was a year of innovative uses of film music that played a subtle and almost sound design-like role. And by no surprise, so much of that best work came from director-composer collaborations that started early and stretched over many months, sometimes over year, and evolved to find the best way for the music sit in the film.
Chris O’Falt, Steve Greene, David Ehrlich, and Erik Adams also contributed to this article.
What was clear from our picks, however, was that a number of the best composers working today — from Michael Giacchino to Michael Abels — were on their game in 2022; it was also apparent that this was a year of innovative uses of film music that played a subtle and almost sound design-like role. And by no surprise, so much of that best work came from director-composer collaborations that started early and stretched over many months, sometimes over year, and evolved to find the best way for the music sit in the film.
Chris O’Falt, Steve Greene, David Ehrlich, and Erik Adams also contributed to this article.
- 12/20/2022
- by Sarah Shachat, Jim Hemphill and Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
This article is presented by Plex
The holiday season is officially here! If the visions of sugar plums dancing in your head aren’t quite cutting it in the entertainment department, allow Plex TV to keep you entertained this December. Our December picks were chosen with counterprogramming in mind; if you’re a bit burnt out on the typical holiday classics, these picks will get you out of the yuletide funk.
Plex offers a one-stop-shop streaming service offering 50,000+ free titles and 200+ of free-to-stream live TV channels, from the biggest names in entertainment, including Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Lionsgate, Legendary, AMC, A+E, Crackle, and Reuters. Plex is always overflowing with thousands of new and familiar favorites on its platform and we’re here to happily select the cream of the crop.
Jingle all the way over to Plex TV now for the best free entertainment...
The holiday season is officially here! If the visions of sugar plums dancing in your head aren’t quite cutting it in the entertainment department, allow Plex TV to keep you entertained this December. Our December picks were chosen with counterprogramming in mind; if you’re a bit burnt out on the typical holiday classics, these picks will get you out of the yuletide funk.
Plex offers a one-stop-shop streaming service offering 50,000+ free titles and 200+ of free-to-stream live TV channels, from the biggest names in entertainment, including Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Lionsgate, Legendary, AMC, A+E, Crackle, and Reuters. Plex is always overflowing with thousands of new and familiar favorites on its platform and we’re here to happily select the cream of the crop.
Jingle all the way over to Plex TV now for the best free entertainment...
- 12/2/2022
- by Nick Harley
- Den of Geek
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products released each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
The Menu Vinyl Soundtrack from Waxwork Records
Between Hereditary, Color Out of Space, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Colin Stetson is becoming one of the most effective composers in the horror genre. His latest score for The Menu is coming to vinyl from Waxwork Records.
The album is pressed on 180-gram splatter colored vinyl. It’s housed in a gatefold jacket with matte satin coating featuring artwork by Matt Needle and a 12×12 art pint. Scheduled to ship in February, it costs 30.
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla Figures from Mezco Toyz
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla introduced Mechagodzilla and King Caesar to the Godzilla franchise in 1974, and Mezco Toyz is releasing a 5 Points Xl toy set featuring all three kaiju in...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
The Menu Vinyl Soundtrack from Waxwork Records
Between Hereditary, Color Out of Space, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Colin Stetson is becoming one of the most effective composers in the horror genre. His latest score for The Menu is coming to vinyl from Waxwork Records.
The album is pressed on 180-gram splatter colored vinyl. It’s housed in a gatefold jacket with matte satin coating featuring artwork by Matt Needle and a 12×12 art pint. Scheduled to ship in February, it costs 30.
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla Figures from Mezco Toyz
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla introduced Mechagodzilla and King Caesar to the Godzilla franchise in 1974, and Mezco Toyz is releasing a 5 Points Xl toy set featuring all three kaiju in...
- 11/25/2022
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Click here to read the full article.
The twist of Searchlight’s horror-comedy The Menu is perfectly (under)scored by its music.
That sound is courtesy of Colin Stetson, a composer with a background in woodwinds and a breathy appreciation for horror and tension. “There are certain things that I do with breath and with a semblance of breath to trigger the same sort of experiential reaction from an audience,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Air is everything and so the manipulation of air, be it through actual literal breath recorded and manipulated or as it’s being projected through an instrument, will do certain things.”
Breath and manipulation are rather fittingly thematically aligned with The Menu, his latest project from director Mark Mylod and co-writers Seth Reiss and Will Tracy’s that is a part-hilarious, part-horrifying examination of hunger, elitism and the power of food. Set in a secluded,...
The twist of Searchlight’s horror-comedy The Menu is perfectly (under)scored by its music.
That sound is courtesy of Colin Stetson, a composer with a background in woodwinds and a breathy appreciation for horror and tension. “There are certain things that I do with breath and with a semblance of breath to trigger the same sort of experiential reaction from an audience,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Air is everything and so the manipulation of air, be it through actual literal breath recorded and manipulated or as it’s being projected through an instrument, will do certain things.”
Breath and manipulation are rather fittingly thematically aligned with The Menu, his latest project from director Mark Mylod and co-writers Seth Reiss and Will Tracy’s that is a part-hilarious, part-horrifying examination of hunger, elitism and the power of food. Set in a secluded,...
- 11/21/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sharpen your knives (or your record needles) for a new addition to your vinyl soundtrack collection. Composer Colin Stetson's original score for "The Menu" is getting the vinyl treatment from Waxwork Records, in partnership with Milan Records, early next year.
In "The Menu," per the official Searchlight Pictures synopsis, "A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises." Said chef — and possible human hunter — can be seen giving his guests a 45-second running head start in the trailer for "The Menu." But with the vinyl edition of "The Menu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"), you'll have about a three-month head start to pre-order it before it ships in February 2023.
Stetson is an accomplished saxophonist who took home two Grammy Awards for his collaborations with Bon Iver. He...
In "The Menu," per the official Searchlight Pictures synopsis, "A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises." Said chef — and possible human hunter — can be seen giving his guests a 45-second running head start in the trailer for "The Menu." But with the vinyl edition of "The Menu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"), you'll have about a three-month head start to pre-order it before it ships in February 2023.
Stetson is an accomplished saxophonist who took home two Grammy Awards for his collaborations with Bon Iver. He...
- 11/19/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
“I haven’t seen this story told exactly this way,” reflects composer Colin Stetson about “The Menu.” For our recent webchat he continues, “That’s a rarity in a world of recycled storytelling. There are a couple of moments that are so real that every time I see them I am blown away.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“The Menu” is about a young couple, played by Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult, who go to a remote island to dine at an exclusive restaurant. Once there, the renowned chef, Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) presents his creative dishes. As the courses are unveiled, surprises present dangers for the customers.
SEEMark Mylod interview: ‘Succession’ director
Stetson wrote the score for the film, directed by Mark Mylod. He explains, “There’s a kind of rhythmic structure to the way the film was written. Certain things can’t be done until certain moments happen.
“The Menu” is about a young couple, played by Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult, who go to a remote island to dine at an exclusive restaurant. Once there, the renowned chef, Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) presents his creative dishes. As the courses are unveiled, surprises present dangers for the customers.
SEEMark Mylod interview: ‘Succession’ director
Stetson wrote the score for the film, directed by Mark Mylod. He explains, “There’s a kind of rhythmic structure to the way the film was written. Certain things can’t be done until certain moments happen.
- 11/15/2022
- by Matt Noble
- Gold Derby
Tonight you'll be dining at Hawthorne, one of the most exclusive restaurants in the world. Located on a small, picturesque island where all the food is grown, raised, harvested, and slaughtered, Hawthorne only serves 12 customers per night at 1250 a head. That sort of exclusivity and whopping price tag means you won't be getting any old food — you'll be served deconstructed works of art; exercises in molecular gastronomy, all prepared by Chef Slowik and his committed staff. But tonight's menu will be special. And let's just say ... different.
That's the setup for "The Menu," director Mark Mylod's delightfully deranged horror-comedy-food porn mash-up. A group of 12 have come to the island to dine, including obsessive foody Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) and his date, Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy). While everyone seated for the night's meal is obscenely wealthy — including a powerful food critic (Janet McTeer), a washed-up actor (John Leguizamo), a couple who have...
That's the setup for "The Menu," director Mark Mylod's delightfully deranged horror-comedy-food porn mash-up. A group of 12 have come to the island to dine, including obsessive foody Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) and his date, Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy). While everyone seated for the night's meal is obscenely wealthy — including a powerful food critic (Janet McTeer), a washed-up actor (John Leguizamo), a couple who have...
- 9/11/2022
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
It's clear from the film's opening that David Blue Garcia's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is situated within the universe of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Colin Stetson's rumbling score kicks in with humming horns, almost like an old machine coming to life again before grainy old footage fires up on a tv, and John Larroquette reprises his role as narrator from the intro of Hooper's film, detailing the "grisly and gruesome" attacks on a group of youths in August of 1973.
The first two minutes of the film re-introduce the lone '74 "Chainsaw" survivor Sally Hardesty (played by Olwen Fouéré following...
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The first two minutes of the film re-introduce the lone '74 "Chainsaw" survivor Sally Hardesty (played by Olwen Fouéré following...
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- 3/17/2022
- by Anya Stanley
- Slash Film
In the grand old splattered hallways of slasher horror movies, few franchises are as up and down and all around as that of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Since Tobe Hooper terrified us back in 1974 with, what is still, one of the greatest and most terrifying, raw and sadistic horror films ever made, there have been numerous attempts to match this landmark original.
Some have drawn cult fandom, some continue to fiercely divide (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation), some are just plain terrible (2017’s Leatherface) or meh (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3: Leatherface) and some are rather underrated if very flawed attempts at taking the lore elsewhere while remaining somewhat true (Texas Chainsaw 3D). But now, ol’ Leatherface faces his next challenge, and most frightening…social media!
Netflix’s new addition to the franchise takes a page out of Candyman and Halloween’s book, and is a ‘requel’ or legacy sequel...
Some have drawn cult fandom, some continue to fiercely divide (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation), some are just plain terrible (2017’s Leatherface) or meh (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3: Leatherface) and some are rather underrated if very flawed attempts at taking the lore elsewhere while remaining somewhat true (Texas Chainsaw 3D). But now, ol’ Leatherface faces his next challenge, and most frightening…social media!
Netflix’s new addition to the franchise takes a page out of Candyman and Halloween’s book, and is a ‘requel’ or legacy sequel...
- 3/10/2022
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise roars back to life this Friday with Netflix‘s brand new movie, and today we’ve been treated to a taste of the new movie’s gnarly soundtrack. Fresh off horror films Hereditary and Color Out of Space, Colin Stetson composed the score for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and you can listen […]
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- 2/16/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise roars back to life this Friday with Netflix‘s brand new movie, and today we’ve been treated to a taste of the new movie’s gnarly soundtrack. Fresh off horror films Hereditary and Color Out of Space, Colin Stetson composed the score for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and you can listen […]
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- 2/14/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Wayne Bell’s score for Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is in a word unsettling. Bell and Hooper worked together to conjure up aural elements that mix creepy sound effects with a synth-heavy staccato married with a keyboard that brings the chainsaw to life.
For Leatherface’s 2022 reboot, Colin Stetson came on board to craft an equally unnerving environment as the slasher returns. Of Hooper’s and Bell’s original work almost 50 years ago, Stetson says, admiringly, “That score was genre-exclusionary and abstract. It was trying to divorce itself from the shackles of the score and sound design to enter a new space.”
That separation of genre, Stetson says, opened up doors for him when it came to scoring the new film, out on Netflix Feb. 18. “I knew it would be an opportunity to go as far as I wanted in searching for the musical score.” Director...
For Leatherface’s 2022 reboot, Colin Stetson came on board to craft an equally unnerving environment as the slasher returns. Of Hooper’s and Bell’s original work almost 50 years ago, Stetson says, admiringly, “That score was genre-exclusionary and abstract. It was trying to divorce itself from the shackles of the score and sound design to enter a new space.”
That separation of genre, Stetson says, opened up doors for him when it came to scoring the new film, out on Netflix Feb. 18. “I knew it would be an opportunity to go as far as I wanted in searching for the musical score.” Director...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
In the world of manga, few artists draw such a mix of admiration and chills like Junji Ito, author of the body horror epic “Uzumaki.” Now he is lending his talents to a manga adaptation of a cult horror film that aligns closely with his artistic style: Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse.”
In 2019, “The Lighthouse” won over horror buffs with its claustrophobic tale of two men, played by Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, who are tasked with keeping a lighthouse running during a torrential storm season. But soon, supernatural forces trap the lighthouse’s island in chaos, and the two men turn on each other over who gets to tend to the lighthouse lantern, which holds a mysterious power.
“The Lighthouse” was supposed to be released in Japan last year but was delayed to July 9, 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. To support the film, Ito has created an 8-page manga explaining...
In 2019, “The Lighthouse” won over horror buffs with its claustrophobic tale of two men, played by Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, who are tasked with keeping a lighthouse running during a torrential storm season. But soon, supernatural forces trap the lighthouse’s island in chaos, and the two men turn on each other over who gets to tend to the lighthouse lantern, which holds a mysterious power.
“The Lighthouse” was supposed to be released in Japan last year but was delayed to July 9, 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. To support the film, Ito has created an 8-page manga explaining...
- 6/26/2021
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
In the spirit of intrepid, globetrotting adventurers like Werner Herzog, the new documentary Echoes of the Invisible turns its lens onto explorers who traverse the world in the face of hardship and technological division. A winner of the Zeiss Cinematography Award at the SXSW 2020 Film Festival, the film will now arrive digitally and with special screenings this month, on June 22, via Utopia. Ahead of the release, we’re pleased to present the exclusive trailer.
Directed by Steve Elkins, the documentary follows Al Arnold, a blind man running through the extreme environment of Death Valley; Rachel Sussman, a photographer capturing photographs of the oldest living organisms; and Paul Salopek, a journalist traveling the world to examine historic migration. The explorers are all linked through one common message: to appreciate the world around them during a time where people are too dependent on technology.
Produced by Jan Cieslikiewicz and Scott Cronan, with cinematography from Steve Elkins,...
Directed by Steve Elkins, the documentary follows Al Arnold, a blind man running through the extreme environment of Death Valley; Rachel Sussman, a photographer capturing photographs of the oldest living organisms; and Paul Salopek, a journalist traveling the world to examine historic migration. The explorers are all linked through one common message: to appreciate the world around them during a time where people are too dependent on technology.
Produced by Jan Cieslikiewicz and Scott Cronan, with cinematography from Steve Elkins,...
- 6/10/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Jewel, Colin Stetson, DJ Shadow, Pos (De La Soul), Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman are a few of the artists set to make virtual appearances at the 6th Annual ‘State of Music in Media’ Conference, taking place on Feb. 19 and 20.
The virtual event is free to all members of the Guild of Music Supervisors. The conference grants participants the opportunity to network with some of the industry’s top leaders, plus attend a variety of informative panels on subjects covering music in film, television, advertising, games, trailers and more.
Gms President Joel C. High and Vice President Madonna Wade Reed will open the conference, which announced its lineup today. Beyond the panels, Lainey Wilson and Ashley Nicole Greene will be performing.
Program highlights include:
Navigating Unions in Music Supervision
Panelists: Janee Lynch (Business representative for Music at SAG-AFTRA), Casey Bocobo (Business representative for Music at SAG-AFTRA...
The virtual event is free to all members of the Guild of Music Supervisors. The conference grants participants the opportunity to network with some of the industry’s top leaders, plus attend a variety of informative panels on subjects covering music in film, television, advertising, games, trailers and more.
Gms President Joel C. High and Vice President Madonna Wade Reed will open the conference, which announced its lineup today. Beyond the panels, Lainey Wilson and Ashley Nicole Greene will be performing.
Program highlights include:
Navigating Unions in Music Supervision
Panelists: Janee Lynch (Business representative for Music at SAG-AFTRA), Casey Bocobo (Business representative for Music at SAG-AFTRA...
- 2/16/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Not far removed from the island nation of Themyscira as recently seen in Wonder Woman’s big-screen/HBO Max adventures, the world of Mayday is one dominated by women. Establishing little rules or context with its fable-esque qualities, Marsha (Mia Goth) is the leader of a small crew of female soldiers, destined to decimate any men that may find themselves in their crosshairs. Oh, and everyone may be dead and this is all some sort of otherworldly realm. Such is the strange set-up for Karen Cinorre’s folkloric, ambitious debut feature, which intrigues with its unexpected tonal melange, even if the execution comes up lacking.
Before the film’s protagonist, Ana (Grace Van Patten), arrives washed up on a mysterious shore, she’s introduced beginning a day’s work as part of a catering team at a wedding venue. She has a friendly relationship with her co-worker (Théodore Pellerin), who...
Before the film’s protagonist, Ana (Grace Van Patten), arrives washed up on a mysterious shore, she’s introduced beginning a day’s work as part of a catering team at a wedding venue. She has a friendly relationship with her co-worker (Théodore Pellerin), who...
- 1/31/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
How did events of 2020—any of them—change your film, either in the way you approached it, produced it, post-produced it, or are now thinking about it? As I worked remotely with editor Nick Ramirez and composers Colin Stetson and Caroline Shaw, so much erupted around us. When the horrible Covid surge overtook New York City, we heard endless ambulance sirens while banging pots and pans every night at 7 p.m. to honor our frontline and essential workers. We were simultaneously swept up in the mobilization of Black Lives Matter. We marched, masks on, proud of our own city’s electrifying reaction […]
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- 1/31/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
How did events of 2020—any of them—change your film, either in the way you approached it, produced it, post-produced it, or are now thinking about it? As I worked remotely with editor Nick Ramirez and composers Colin Stetson and Caroline Shaw, so much erupted around us. When the horrible Covid surge overtook New York City, we heard endless ambulance sirens while banging pots and pans every night at 7 p.m. to honor our frontline and essential workers. We were simultaneously swept up in the mobilization of Black Lives Matter. We marched, masks on, proud of our own city’s electrifying reaction […]
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- 1/31/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival, beginning Thursday, will look quite different. Forging ahead during the pandemic, they’ve to continue offering some of the year’s finest independent discoveries, with a new online platform, drive-ins, screenings at independent arthouses around the country, and more.
We’ll have extensive coverage from the festival (which one can follow here or on Twitter). Before reviews arrive, we’re counting down our most-anticipated films. If you’re interested in experiencing Sundance from home, one can see available tickets here.
15. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Year after year, Sundance’s Next section offers independent cinema’s most compelling new voices; one that’s caught our eye is Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Shot by Daniel Patrick Carbone and scored by Alex G, it follows a teenager (Anna Cobb) whose reality begins blurring when she plays an online horror role-playing game.
We’ll have extensive coverage from the festival (which one can follow here or on Twitter). Before reviews arrive, we’re counting down our most-anticipated films. If you’re interested in experiencing Sundance from home, one can see available tickets here.
15. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Year after year, Sundance’s Next section offers independent cinema’s most compelling new voices; one that’s caught our eye is Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Shot by Daniel Patrick Carbone and scored by Alex G, it follows a teenager (Anna Cobb) whose reality begins blurring when she plays an online horror role-playing game.
- 1/25/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The Sundance Film Festival’s 2021 virtual Main Street will play host to a series of conversations about music and the movies, hosted by first-time festival partner Film Music House, with Mary J. Blige, Rufus Wainwright and Colin Stetson (pictured above) among those taking part in the streamed chats Jan. 28 through Feb. 3.
Blige will join Nova Wav and DJ Camper in a conversation on songwriting for films. Wainwright will participate in a panel on the music of the film “Rebel Hearts” with veteran music supervisor Tracy McKnight and Ariel Marx. A panel about music auteurs will feature Stetson as well as Bryce Dessner of the National and Alex Somers.
The confab’s keynote conversations will spotlight Mychael Danna, Jeff Beal, Dan Romer, Miriam Cuter and Rob Simonsen.
The full lineup of names and times for Film Music House programs can be found on Sundance’s Village site, here.
Other programs include...
Blige will join Nova Wav and DJ Camper in a conversation on songwriting for films. Wainwright will participate in a panel on the music of the film “Rebel Hearts” with veteran music supervisor Tracy McKnight and Ariel Marx. A panel about music auteurs will feature Stetson as well as Bryce Dessner of the National and Alex Somers.
The confab’s keynote conversations will spotlight Mychael Danna, Jeff Beal, Dan Romer, Miriam Cuter and Rob Simonsen.
The full lineup of names and times for Film Music House programs can be found on Sundance’s Village site, here.
Other programs include...
- 1/14/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Scottish instrumental post-rockers Mogwai have announced their new album As the Love Continues by dropping the video for the LP’s first single “Dry Fantasy.”
For the album, the quartet reunited with long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann — their producer on 1999’s Come on Die Young, 2001’s Rock Action, and 2017 LP Every Country’s Sun — earlier this year. However, due to the pandemic, Mogwai recorded in Worcestershire, U.K., with Fridmann producing the sessions “separated by an ocean but appearing like an Orwellian oppressor over the sessions,” the band said.
As the...
For the album, the quartet reunited with long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann — their producer on 1999’s Come on Die Young, 2001’s Rock Action, and 2017 LP Every Country’s Sun — earlier this year. However, due to the pandemic, Mogwai recorded in Worcestershire, U.K., with Fridmann producing the sessions “separated by an ocean but appearing like an Orwellian oppressor over the sessions,” the band said.
As the...
- 10/29/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Sony and Milan Records have released the first single, “Opening,” from the soundtrack to the Janelle Monáe-led horror film Antebellum. The movie will be released on September 18th, with the soundtrack available for download on the same day.
The score to the film was written by Nate Wonder and Roman GianArthur, who have worked with Monáe on her albums as part of her Wondaland Arts Society collective. This will be their debut film score, inspired by the work of Colin Stetson (Bon Iver, Arcade Fire).
Antebellum was written and...
The score to the film was written by Nate Wonder and Roman GianArthur, who have worked with Monáe on her albums as part of her Wondaland Arts Society collective. This will be their debut film score, inspired by the work of Colin Stetson (Bon Iver, Arcade Fire).
Antebellum was written and...
- 8/20/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The 2020 Emmy ballots have been released by the Television Academy, so we now know which shows, actors, etc. are in contention for this year’s golden statues. Nat Geo’s limited series “Barkskins” accounts for two entries on the performer ballot, David Thewlis in lead and Marcia Gay Harden in supporting, and it’s a force to be reckoned with for creative Emmy contenders like composer Colin Stetson. This eight-episode series, based on Annie Proulx‘s 2016 novel, tells the story of European colonists trying to make a home for themselves in New France.
Nat Geo is no stranger to the Emmy Awards, earning Best Limited Series bids for “Genius: Einstein” (2018) and “Genius: Picasso” (2019). A third “Genius” installment, starring Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin, was originally scheduled to air this season but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Will sprawling period drama “Barkskins” now fill the “Genius” void at the 2020 Emmys?...
Nat Geo is no stranger to the Emmy Awards, earning Best Limited Series bids for “Genius: Einstein” (2018) and “Genius: Picasso” (2019). A third “Genius” installment, starring Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin, was originally scheduled to air this season but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Will sprawling period drama “Barkskins” now fill the “Genius” void at the 2020 Emmys?...
- 7/5/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
If there’s one thing every composer feels the same way about, it may be this: Death to temp music.
“I think we all agree that temp music is evil,” “This Is Us” composer Siddhartha Khosla said during Gold Derby’s Meet the Btl Experts: Composers panel (watch above), which also included Carter Burwell (“Space Force”), Curtis Moore (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Dave Porter (“Better Call Saul” and “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie”) and Colin Stetson (“Barkskins”).
Porter, who’s been part of the “Breaking Bad” franchise since the beginning, shares that he’s been “fortunate very early on to instill in them that temp music is evil, so I’ve avoided that all these years, which is an absolute blessing, of course.”
See Over 300 exclusive video interviews with 2020 Emmy contenders
To try to get around or ahead of temp, Khosla tries to get involved early on, even though...
“I think we all agree that temp music is evil,” “This Is Us” composer Siddhartha Khosla said during Gold Derby’s Meet the Btl Experts: Composers panel (watch above), which also included Carter Burwell (“Space Force”), Curtis Moore (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Dave Porter (“Better Call Saul” and “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie”) and Colin Stetson (“Barkskins”).
Porter, who’s been part of the “Breaking Bad” franchise since the beginning, shares that he’s been “fortunate very early on to instill in them that temp music is evil, so I’ve avoided that all these years, which is an absolute blessing, of course.”
See Over 300 exclusive video interviews with 2020 Emmy contenders
To try to get around or ahead of temp, Khosla tries to get involved early on, even though...
- 6/24/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
You could say that “Barkskins” showrunner Elwood Reid and composer Colin Stetson were meant to work together. “When we met [about the show], it was this immediate camaraderie, immediate good vibes. I adore that man. It turned out he was a bouncer in a club in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I grew up and went to school, and this club I played at four times a week,” Stetson revealed during Gold Derby’s Meet the Btl Experts: Composers panel (watch above). “So we no doubt had crossed paths many times. We talked about the show. I loved his vision for it, which was very, very unconventional as far as pieces of its ilk that I’ve known of. We bonded over a mutual love of black metal and I was in from the first hour.”
Based on the novel of the same name by Annie Proulx, the Nat Geo limited series covers the...
Based on the novel of the same name by Annie Proulx, the Nat Geo limited series covers the...
- 6/23/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
National Geographic is getting into the Emmy Fyc podcast game. The network has launched “Consider This,” a new 12-episode series that will feature stars and producers from Nat Geo’s Emmy contenders.
Guests will include Marcia Gay Harden, Dr. Amani Ballour (“The Cave”), Jeff Goldblum (“The World According to Jeff Goldblum”), Dr. Jane Goodall (“Sea of Shadows”), Bear Grylls (“Running Wild with Bear Grylls”), Keegan-Michael Key (“Brain Games”), Gordon Ramsay (“Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted”), David Thewlis (“Barkskins”), Neil deGrasse Tyson (“Cosmos: Possible Worlds”) and Sue Aikens (“Life Below Zero”). Journalist Stacey Wilson Hunt hosts the podcast.
“Consider This” will be available to download starting Monday via Apple, Spotify, Radio.com, TuneIn, Deezer, Stitcher, Google Play, Overcast and Pocketcast.The first episode features Tyson, followed by one with Key.
Other interviewees include Ann Druyan (“Cosmos: Possible Worlds”), Sigrid Dyekjær (“The Cave”), Jon Kroll (“Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted”), Joseph Litzinger (“Life Below Zero”) and...
Guests will include Marcia Gay Harden, Dr. Amani Ballour (“The Cave”), Jeff Goldblum (“The World According to Jeff Goldblum”), Dr. Jane Goodall (“Sea of Shadows”), Bear Grylls (“Running Wild with Bear Grylls”), Keegan-Michael Key (“Brain Games”), Gordon Ramsay (“Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted”), David Thewlis (“Barkskins”), Neil deGrasse Tyson (“Cosmos: Possible Worlds”) and Sue Aikens (“Life Below Zero”). Journalist Stacey Wilson Hunt hosts the podcast.
“Consider This” will be available to download starting Monday via Apple, Spotify, Radio.com, TuneIn, Deezer, Stitcher, Google Play, Overcast and Pocketcast.The first episode features Tyson, followed by one with Key.
Other interviewees include Ann Druyan (“Cosmos: Possible Worlds”), Sigrid Dyekjær (“The Cave”), Jon Kroll (“Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted”), Joseph Litzinger (“Life Below Zero”) and...
- 6/15/2020
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Five of TV’s top composers will reveal the secrets behind their musical success when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Btl Experts” Q&a event with key 2020 Emmy contenders this month. Each scribe will participate in two video discussions to be published soon: one-on-one with our senior editor Joyce Eng and a group chat with Joyce and all of the composers together.
SEEalmost 300 interviews with 2020 Emmy contenders
This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2020 Emmy contenders:
Carter Burwell represents Netflix for “Space Force”
Burwell won a Primetime Emmy for his work on “Mildred Pierce.” He is a 2-time Oscar nominee for “Carol” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Other projects have included “The Twilight Saga,” “True Grit,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Fargo.”
Siddhartha Khosla represents 20th Century Fox and NBCUniversal for “This Is Us”
Khosla was nominated at last year’s Emmys for...
SEEalmost 300 interviews with 2020 Emmy contenders
This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2020 Emmy contenders:
Carter Burwell represents Netflix for “Space Force”
Burwell won a Primetime Emmy for his work on “Mildred Pierce.” He is a 2-time Oscar nominee for “Carol” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Other projects have included “The Twilight Saga,” “True Grit,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Fargo.”
Siddhartha Khosla represents 20th Century Fox and NBCUniversal for “This Is Us”
Khosla was nominated at last year’s Emmys for...
- 6/11/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Sometimes, there are days that feel slightly incomplete without the sound of renowned actor David Thewlis’ singing voice. Luckily, the new National Geographic series “Barkskins” offered the actor a chance to add to the eerie atmosphere of the show with a chilling in-character exhortation.
“Barkskins” follows a number of residents of a settlement in modern-day Quebec at the twilight of the 17th century. As colonial forces threaten to rip apart life for the people that journeyed across the Atlantic and the people who lived on the land previously, New France becomes a physical and metaphorical battleground.
Thewlis’ character, Claude Trepagny, is an eccentric land speculator living in the colony. Amidst the various backroom deals and arranged relationships, Trepagny offers these chilling words for anyone in the forest within hearing range:
The song “Awake You Sleepy Hearts” was written by the show’s composer, Colin Stetson, who before turning his attention...
“Barkskins” follows a number of residents of a settlement in modern-day Quebec at the twilight of the 17th century. As colonial forces threaten to rip apart life for the people that journeyed across the Atlantic and the people who lived on the land previously, New France becomes a physical and metaphorical battleground.
Thewlis’ character, Claude Trepagny, is an eccentric land speculator living in the colony. Amidst the various backroom deals and arranged relationships, Trepagny offers these chilling words for anyone in the forest within hearing range:
The song “Awake You Sleepy Hearts” was written by the show’s composer, Colin Stetson, who before turning his attention...
- 5/28/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Pinning “Barkskins” into a particular genre box is a tricky task. On the surface, this National Geographic TV adaptation of the Annie Proulx novel appears like a down-the-middle historical fiction prestige play. Set in the colonial region of New France in the dwindling years of the 17th century, there’s a familiar makeup of the setting: The wood-built settlements of Wobik are made up of candlelit rooms of modest interiors, while earthen pathways make up the centuries-past equivalents of bustling city streets.
The players in this drama are a cross-section of the kind of characters usually seen in these stories of early colonial intrusion into the Americas. There’s the company man, Hamish Goames (here of the Hudson Bay variety; played by Aneurin Barnard), the observant innkeeper, Mathilde (Marcia Gay Harden), the European eccentric, Claude Trepagny (David Thewlis), and ambitious regional entrepreneur, Elisha Cooke (Thomas M. Wright). All of them...
The players in this drama are a cross-section of the kind of characters usually seen in these stories of early colonial intrusion into the Americas. There’s the company man, Hamish Goames (here of the Hudson Bay variety; played by Aneurin Barnard), the observant innkeeper, Mathilde (Marcia Gay Harden), the European eccentric, Claude Trepagny (David Thewlis), and ambitious regional entrepreneur, Elisha Cooke (Thomas M. Wright). All of them...
- 5/25/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
One my favorite debuts this decade was A.J. Edwards’ young Lincoln tale The Better Angels. Terrence Malick’s longtime collaborator has now returned with a modern-day tale for his follow-up. Premiering at festivals as Friday’s Child but now going by Age Out for the theatrical release, the drama stars Tye Sheridan, Imogen Poots, Caleb Landry Jones, and Jeffery Wright. Following a teenage drifter just out of foster and who finds a new love, the film will get a release this November and now the beautiful new trailer and poster have arrived.
Jared Mobarak said in our review, “The only thing worse than never getting your happy ending is having it within grasp and realizing you cannot accept it. To see salvation and turn around knowing it would be a lie is the type of heartbreaking choice we often have to make in order to keep on going. It’s...
Jared Mobarak said in our review, “The only thing worse than never getting your happy ending is having it within grasp and realizing you cannot accept it. To see salvation and turn around knowing it would be a lie is the type of heartbreaking choice we often have to make in order to keep on going. It’s...
- 10/18/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Junji Ito’s manga series “Uzumaki” is one of those things where, once you read it, you’ll never be the same. And now, Adult Swim is ready to drag us all down into the spiraling pit of doom with an animated adaptation set to debut on the Cartoon Network programming block in 2020.
The plot of “Uzumaki,” a manga series that dates back to the late-90s, coils around a town of people who basically go insane over increasing obsessions with spiral shapes — patterns in the clouds, everyday objects, hair, insects, skin, the gamut of prosaic horrors. There is no one villain or particular reason offered up as to the source of this collective mass, well, spiral; which makes it all the more terrifying. Leave it to the practitioners of J-horror to make the mundane utterly horrifying, and it’s no spoiler to say that much of this story ends up in hysterical suicide,...
The plot of “Uzumaki,” a manga series that dates back to the late-90s, coils around a town of people who basically go insane over increasing obsessions with spiral shapes — patterns in the clouds, everyday objects, hair, insects, skin, the gamut of prosaic horrors. There is no one villain or particular reason offered up as to the source of this collective mass, well, spiral; which makes it all the more terrifying. Leave it to the practitioners of J-horror to make the mundane utterly horrifying, and it’s no spoiler to say that much of this story ends up in hysterical suicide,...
- 8/31/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
‘Hereditary’ Composer Colin Stetson Is Scoring Richard Stanley’s Lovecraft Film ‘Color Out of Space’
Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly be more excited about Richard Stanley‘s Nicolas Cage-starring H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space, we’ve learned today via Exclaim.ca that the sci-fi film’s score will be composed by Colin Stetson, who composed the score for Ari Aster’s Hereditary! Stetson also contributed music to Arrival and Red Dead […]...
- 8/27/2019
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
After highlighting 50 anticipated titles confirmed to arrive in theaters this fall, we now turn our attention to the festival-bound films either without distribution or awaiting a release date. Looking over Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival titles (as well as a few likely Telluride contenders), we’ve rounded up 20 movies–most of which we’ll be checking out over the next few weeks–that we can’t wait to see–and will hopefully land a U.S. release soon.
Check out our 20 most-anticipated festival premieres below, and return for our reviews.
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson) – Venice and Tiff
During the five-year wait since A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, the closing chapter of Roy Andersson’s Living trilogy, the filmmaker hasn’t exactly been resting on his laurels. Andersson began production as early as February 2017 on his newest work About Endlessness,...
Check out our 20 most-anticipated festival premieres below, and return for our reviews.
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson) – Venice and Tiff
During the five-year wait since A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, the closing chapter of Roy Andersson’s Living trilogy, the filmmaker hasn’t exactly been resting on his laurels. Andersson began production as early as February 2017 on his newest work About Endlessness,...
- 8/26/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
D’Angelo officially released his meditative new song, “Unshaken,” which appears on the soundtrack of Rockstar video game Red Dead Redemption 2. The track, now available on streaming services, marks the soul singer’s first release since his third LP, 2014’s Black Messiah.
The vocalist explores his lower register throughout, crooning bleak imagery over a percussive groove. “Did I hear a thunder? Did I hear you break?” he sings. “I can’t quite remember just what guided me this way.” On the chorus, he pleads, “May I stand unshaken/ Amid, amidst a crashing world.
The vocalist explores his lower register throughout, crooning bleak imagery over a percussive groove. “Did I hear a thunder? Did I hear you break?” he sings. “I can’t quite remember just what guided me this way.” On the chorus, he pleads, “May I stand unshaken/ Amid, amidst a crashing world.
- 1/4/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
As Martin Scorsese once said, “Music and cinema fit together naturally. Because there’s a kind of intrinsic musicality to the way moving images work when they’re put together. It’s been said that cinema and music are very close as art forms, and I think that’s true.” Indeed, the right piece of music–whether it’s an original score or a carefully selected song–can do wonders for a sequence, and today we’re looking at the 25 films that best expressed this notion this year.
From seasoned composers to accomplished musicians, as well as a smattering of soundtracks, each musical example perfectly transported us to the world of the film. Check out our rundown of the top 25, which includes streams to each soundtrack in full where available.
25. Game Night (Cliff Martinez)
24. Vox Lux (Scott Walker and Sia)
23. Halloween (John & Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies)
22. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs...
From seasoned composers to accomplished musicians, as well as a smattering of soundtracks, each musical example perfectly transported us to the world of the film. Check out our rundown of the top 25, which includes streams to each soundtrack in full where available.
25. Game Night (Cliff Martinez)
24. Vox Lux (Scott Walker and Sia)
23. Halloween (John & Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies)
22. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs...
- 1/2/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Though Oscar voters are usually scared off by horror films, they have made exceptions over the years, showering prizes upon the likes of “The Exorcist” (1973), “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) and most recently “Get Out” (2017). Will “Hereditary” be the latest fright-fest to conjure nominations? Gold Derby recently spoke with stars Toni Collette and Alex Wolff, writer-director Ari Aster and composer Colin Stetson about their work on the movie.
This A24 thriller centers on Annie (Collette), whose family experiences a series of strange and disturbing events after the death of her mother. “This woman has been betrayed by her mother her entire life,” Collette explains about Annie. “Every decision hasn’t really been her own, and she lives with this ominous dread of knowing something’s wrong but she doesn’t really know what it is.” Thus far Collette has won Best Actress at the Gotham Awards and earned nominations from...
This A24 thriller centers on Annie (Collette), whose family experiences a series of strange and disturbing events after the death of her mother. “This woman has been betrayed by her mother her entire life,” Collette explains about Annie. “Every decision hasn’t really been her own, and she lives with this ominous dread of knowing something’s wrong but she doesn’t really know what it is.” Thus far Collette has won Best Actress at the Gotham Awards and earned nominations from...
- 12/31/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 scores that are still in contention for an Oscar this year. The shortlist finds a number of heavily tipped favorites competing against a handful of blockbusters, smaller films, and scores by returning winners like Alexandre Desplat, who took home trophy last year for “The Shape of Water” and returns to the mix with “Isle of Dogs.” Nicholas Brittell earned two spots here, for his scores for “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Vice.”
Most of the glaring absences come from the indie side of things, as brilliant scores from the likes of Jonny Greenwood (“You Were Never Really Here”), Anna Meredith (“Eighth Grade”), and Colin Stetson (“Hereditary”) were largely overlooked in favor of films with larger profiles and higher budgets.
The following scores have made the shortlist for Best Original Score:
“Annihilation”
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs...
Most of the glaring absences come from the indie side of things, as brilliant scores from the likes of Jonny Greenwood (“You Were Never Really Here”), Anna Meredith (“Eighth Grade”), and Colin Stetson (“Hereditary”) were largely overlooked in favor of films with larger profiles and higher budgets.
The following scores have made the shortlist for Best Original Score:
“Annihilation”
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs...
- 12/17/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
For composer Colin Stetson, “Hereditary” is “less a horror film” and more “a gorgeous, complex character study in grief and loss and familial dysfunction.” The A24 release from debut writer-director Ari Aster stars Toni Collette as a woman mourning the death of her mother. As she and her family begin experiencing tragic and unsettling occurrences, they uncover deeply disturbing secrets in the matriarch’s past that could horribly affect their future. Watch our exclusive video interview with Stetson above.
See Alex Wolff (‘Hereditary’): ‘I have never been this vulnerable; if someone touched me, I would bleed’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
By his own admission, Stetson is not “a horror buff by any stretch,” so it wasn’t difficult for him to defy genre expectations. And he reveals that before he started work he “specifically adopted a no horror film or score diet” to avoid their influence.
But Stetson knew that Aster wanted the...
See Alex Wolff (‘Hereditary’): ‘I have never been this vulnerable; if someone touched me, I would bleed’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
By his own admission, Stetson is not “a horror buff by any stretch,” so it wasn’t difficult for him to defy genre expectations. And he reveals that before he started work he “specifically adopted a no horror film or score diet” to avoid their influence.
But Stetson knew that Aster wanted the...
- 11/9/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Christy Summerhays, Morgan Lund, Mallory Bechtel, Jake Brown, Jarrod Phillips, Ann Dowd, Brock McKinney | Written and Directed by Ari Aster
[Note: With Hereditary out on Blu-ray this week, here's a reposting of one of our reviews from the films UK cinematic debut]
Some critics might turn their nose up at the idea that 30-year-old Ari Aster’s debut film should be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of horror. But Aster is clearly a genre fan. With Hereditary, he’s borrowing the possession aspects of The Exorcist; the elemental grief of Don’t Look Now; the parental anxiety of Rosemary’s Baby; the maternal madness of Images; the familial holocaust of The Shining; and the generational violence of Psycho. The result is a distressing and exhausting piece of work, as subversive (in its own way) as last year’s horror breakout, Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out; although it’s probably closer in tone and pacing to Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
[Note: With Hereditary out on Blu-ray this week, here's a reposting of one of our reviews from the films UK cinematic debut]
Some critics might turn their nose up at the idea that 30-year-old Ari Aster’s debut film should be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of horror. But Aster is clearly a genre fan. With Hereditary, he’s borrowing the possession aspects of The Exorcist; the elemental grief of Don’t Look Now; the parental anxiety of Rosemary’s Baby; the maternal madness of Images; the familial holocaust of The Shining; and the generational violence of Psycho. The result is a distressing and exhausting piece of work, as subversive (in its own way) as last year’s horror breakout, Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out; although it’s probably closer in tone and pacing to Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
- 10/9/2018
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
The Chemical Brothers unveiled a breathless new dance track, “Free Yourself,” marking their first new song since 2016.
“Free Yourself” is centered around a vocal refrain that’s chopped in various ways, but always conveys a clear message: “Free yourself, free me, dance.” The production supports the command, as the Chemical Brothers craft a euphoric, multi-faceted odyssey of blistering synths and deep grooves.
The Chemical Brothers started performing “Free Yourself” during festival appearances this summer, and the track marks their first piece of new music since their 2016 single, “C-h-e-m-i-c-a-l.” In June,...
“Free Yourself” is centered around a vocal refrain that’s chopped in various ways, but always conveys a clear message: “Free yourself, free me, dance.” The production supports the command, as the Chemical Brothers craft a euphoric, multi-faceted odyssey of blistering synths and deep grooves.
The Chemical Brothers started performing “Free Yourself” during festival appearances this summer, and the track marks their first piece of new music since their 2016 single, “C-h-e-m-i-c-a-l.” In June,...
- 9/29/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
It doesn’t take very long for Colin Stetson’s score for the latest Hulu drama “The First” to announce itself. The opening credits sequence is short, but on the strength of a striking visual and the musical force of a rocket engine, the series gets off to an impressive start.
The composer behind “Hereditary” (music that’s haunting in a completely different way), Stetson’s work as a saxophonist helps anchor this story of humans and space in something slightly unfamiliar to those who watch these kinds of futuristic stories. Where previous tales of astronauts have leaned on triumphant brass and heavy strings, there’s a spareness to a lot of what Stetson puts forth here.
Stetson’s work on the series isn’t always the kind that draws that kind of attention. In the pivotal fifth episode, the music works as a complement to a river of memories...
The composer behind “Hereditary” (music that’s haunting in a completely different way), Stetson’s work as a saxophonist helps anchor this story of humans and space in something slightly unfamiliar to those who watch these kinds of futuristic stories. Where previous tales of astronauts have leaned on triumphant brass and heavy strings, there’s a spareness to a lot of what Stetson puts forth here.
Stetson’s work on the series isn’t always the kind that draws that kind of attention. In the pivotal fifth episode, the music works as a complement to a river of memories...
- 9/28/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Of the many early attributes fueling “The First,” the opening score best captures the magnitude of what Hulu’s new drama series has in store. Horns quietly rise over a simmering hum until, just as the sun cracks through the darkness and casts a brilliant sliver of light over the red planet, Colin Stetson’s arrangement reaches a powerful crescendo; it calls to mind Hans Zimmer’s “Man of Steel” theme, but it’s reminiscent of any awe-inspiring moment made accessible by living among the stars, rather than resting under them.
Among other things, Beau Willimon’s first serialized story since “House of Cards” inspires this kind of lofty rhetoric. Its sheer optimism matches the long-standing American mythos once defined by our trip to the moon instead of the ugly present mired by contentious connections between individuals, parties, and societies. It’s so earnest in its belief in people, the drive to reach Mars,...
Among other things, Beau Willimon’s first serialized story since “House of Cards” inspires this kind of lofty rhetoric. Its sheer optimism matches the long-standing American mythos once defined by our trip to the moon instead of the ugly present mired by contentious connections between individuals, parties, and societies. It’s so earnest in its belief in people, the drive to reach Mars,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Any horror hyped as “the next [insert horror classic here]” is always bound to have a tough time convincing the masses. In fact, with other genres, many seem to accept hyperbole far more easily but horror (much like comedy) is far more scrutinised and through this scrutiny, some films falter, some flourish and some divide. In the case of Hereditary, it is once more a case of the latter. Like The VVitch, The Babadook, It Follows, It Comes At Night and Mother before it, Hereditary is a film that has enjoyed some eye catching reviews but which has split its mainstream audiences like the underbelly of a haddock but also, like all those other titles, it is a film that forcibly requests your attention and observation.
To this point I will say now that this review is not complete because Hereditary, like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, is a film that can scarcely be defined by one viewing.
To this point I will say now that this review is not complete because Hereditary, like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, is a film that can scarcely be defined by one viewing.
- 7/9/2018
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Christy Summerhays, Morgan Lund, Mallory Bechtel, Jake Brown, Jarrod Phillips, Ann Dowd, Brock McKinney | Written and Directed by Ari Aster
Some critics might turn their nose up at the idea that 30-year-old Ari Aster’s debut film should be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of horror. But Aster is clearly a genre fan. With Hereditary, he’s borrowing the possession aspects of The Exorcist; the elemental grief of Don’t Look Now; the parental anxiety of Rosemary’s Baby; the maternal madness of Images; the familial holocaust of The Shining; and the generational violence of Psycho.
The result is a distressing and exhausting piece of work, as subversive (in its own way) as last year’s horror breakout, Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out; although it’s probably closer in tone and pacing to Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
Some critics might turn their nose up at the idea that 30-year-old Ari Aster’s debut film should be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of horror. But Aster is clearly a genre fan. With Hereditary, he’s borrowing the possession aspects of The Exorcist; the elemental grief of Don’t Look Now; the parental anxiety of Rosemary’s Baby; the maternal madness of Images; the familial holocaust of The Shining; and the generational violence of Psycho.
The result is a distressing and exhausting piece of work, as subversive (in its own way) as last year’s horror breakout, Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out; although it’s probably closer in tone and pacing to Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
- 6/18/2018
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
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