One of the most surprising (and, thus, thrilling) things about Drive is the way the score plinks keys in our brains that open aural pathways to strains both familiar and strange in our movie music memory. When I ran across this incredibly in-depth interview with writer-producer-musician Johnny Jewel in Box Office Magazine I pounced on it primarily because I hoped to...
Sci-fi fans were spoiled in 2009 with half a dozen milestone movies ranging in style from classic psychological mind-twisters (Moon), exhilarating reboots (Star Trek), “revolutions in cinema” (Avatar), prawn pwnage directorial debuts (District 9), and fresh injections of ecological infection (Splinter). After a binge as wicked as that, 2010 feels like we’ve...
For the second year in a row Alexander Desplat has been named Composer of the Year at the World Soundtrack Awards. The current honor is mostly for music Desplat wrote for movies in 2009 — Julie & Julia, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Fantastic Mr. Fox — but The Ghost Writer is also included in this year’s citation. A year ago Desplat was Composer...
