US composer Elliot Goldenthal will receive a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming 24th World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), Film Fest Gent’s annual film music awards ceremony.
Goldenthal is most renowned for his Oscar, Golden Globe and Wsa-winning score for Frida, as well as scoring Interview With The Vampire, Heat, Batman Forever, Michael Collins, Titus and Across The Universe across his accomplished career.
He will be presented with his award on October 16 at the Wsa ceremony and concert in Ghent, in which a selection of Goldenthal’s work will be performed by the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé.
Goldenthal,...
Goldenthal is most renowned for his Oscar, Golden Globe and Wsa-winning score for Frida, as well as scoring Interview With The Vampire, Heat, Batman Forever, Michael Collins, Titus and Across The Universe across his accomplished career.
He will be presented with his award on October 16 at the Wsa ceremony and concert in Ghent, in which a selection of Goldenthal’s work will be performed by the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé.
Goldenthal,...
- 4/24/2024
- ScreenDaily
New York, NY — March 27, 2023 — The 92nd Street Y, New York (92Ny), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Drew Petersen, piano, plays Chopin, Schumann, Ravel, and more, on April 20, 2023 at 7:30pm Et. The concert will also be available for viewing online for 72 hours from time of broadcast. Tickets for both the in-person and livestream options start at $25 and are available at 92ny.org/event/drew-petersen-piano.
Pianist Drew Petersen makes his NYC recital debut in 92Ny’s newly renovated Buttenwieser Hall. At the heart of his program: piano masterworks by Ravel and Schumann in Gaspard de la nuit and Schumann’s love letter in music, the C-Major Fantasie. A selection of Chopin Études is preceded by John Corigliano’s Etude Fantasy, a set of five studies in the form and character of a fantasy, creating an arc from the program’s start to finish that reflects the thoughtfulness of Petersen’s artistic conception.
Pianist Drew Petersen makes his NYC recital debut in 92Ny’s newly renovated Buttenwieser Hall. At the heart of his program: piano masterworks by Ravel and Schumann in Gaspard de la nuit and Schumann’s love letter in music, the C-Major Fantasie. A selection of Chopin Études is preceded by John Corigliano’s Etude Fantasy, a set of five studies in the form and character of a fantasy, creating an arc from the program’s start to finish that reflects the thoughtfulness of Petersen’s artistic conception.
- 3/27/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
An open letter demanding that the Juilliard School take immediate action against composer Robert Beaser, the former chair of the institution’s composition department, for alleged “decades-long abuse of women and power” has been signed by more than 500 musicians and leaders in the classical music community. The letter was first published Friday.
Last week, the German-based Van magazine published the findings of a six-month investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against several Juilliard faculty members. Beaser, the magazine states, “faces multiple, previously-undisclosed allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct...
Last week, the German-based Van magazine published the findings of a six-month investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against several Juilliard faculty members. Beaser, the magazine states, “faces multiple, previously-undisclosed allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct...
- 12/20/2022
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Opposition to the Academy’s plan to award eight Oscars prior to the live telecast continues to grow, with more than 350 new names — including more than a dozen Oscar-winning editors, cinematographers and production designers — added to the petition sent last week to Academy president David Rubin urging a reversal of the plan.
Among the industry professionals signing are Oscar-winning cinematographers John Seale (“The English Patient”), John Toll (“Braveheart”) and Dean Semler (“Dances With Wolves”), and Oscar-winning editors Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch (“Star Wars”), Mikkel Neilsen (“The Sound of Metal”), Pietro Scalia (“JFK”) and Zach Staenberg (“The Matrix”).
Oscar-winning production designers Hannah Beachler (“Black Panther”), Barbara Ling (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), Adam Stockhausen (“Grand Budapest Hotel”) and David and Sandy Wasco (“La La Land”) also signed on.
Cinematography will be presented during the live show, but editing and production design are among the eight awards to be presented during the 4 p.
Among the industry professionals signing are Oscar-winning cinematographers John Seale (“The English Patient”), John Toll (“Braveheart”) and Dean Semler (“Dances With Wolves”), and Oscar-winning editors Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch (“Star Wars”), Mikkel Neilsen (“The Sound of Metal”), Pietro Scalia (“JFK”) and Zach Staenberg (“The Matrix”).
Oscar-winning production designers Hannah Beachler (“Black Panther”), Barbara Ling (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), Adam Stockhausen (“Grand Budapest Hotel”) and David and Sandy Wasco (“La La Land”) also signed on.
Cinematography will be presented during the live show, but editing and production design are among the eight awards to be presented during the 4 p.
- 3/17/2022
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Some of Hollywood’s top filmmakers and former Oscar winners are calling on the Academy to rethink its decision to pre-record eight categories ahead of the March 27 telecast.
James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, John Williams, Kathleen Kennedy, and more than six dozen others signed an open letter addressed to Academy President David Rubin slamming the decision to record the wins for best documentary short, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, production design, animated short, live-action short, and sound outside of the live Dolby Theatre ceremony.
The letter explained that such a decision would “demean” those categories and “relegate [them] to the status of second-class citizens,” as shared with Variety. Though the eight categories taking place prior to the 5 p.m. start time will be integrated into the broadcast, these artists are pushing the Academy to reverse its decision and present all 23 Oscar categories live.
“To diminish any of those individual...
James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, John Williams, Kathleen Kennedy, and more than six dozen others signed an open letter addressed to Academy President David Rubin slamming the decision to record the wins for best documentary short, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, production design, animated short, live-action short, and sound outside of the live Dolby Theatre ceremony.
The letter explained that such a decision would “demean” those categories and “relegate [them] to the status of second-class citizens,” as shared with Variety. Though the eight categories taking place prior to the 5 p.m. start time will be integrated into the broadcast, these artists are pushing the Academy to reverse its decision and present all 23 Oscar categories live.
“To diminish any of those individual...
- 3/9/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Some of Hollywood’s most high-profile filmmakers, including director James Cameron, producers Kathleen Kennedy and Lili Fini Zanuck and composer John Williams have joined the growing chorus of voices asking the Academy to reverse course and present all 23 Oscars on the live March 27 telecast.
In a letter sent today to Academy President David Rubin and obtained by Variety, more than six dozen film professionals, including multiple Academy Award winners, contend that the plan to present eight awards during the pre-telecast hour will “demean” these crafts and “relegate [them] to the status of second-class citizens.”
The eight are original score, film editing, production design, makeup and hairstyling, sound, documentary short, live-action short and animated short. The Academy continues to insist that the nominees in those categories will be announced, and the winner’s acceptance speech aired, in edited form and aired as part of the three-hour ABC show.
That’s not good enough for these artists.
In a letter sent today to Academy President David Rubin and obtained by Variety, more than six dozen film professionals, including multiple Academy Award winners, contend that the plan to present eight awards during the pre-telecast hour will “demean” these crafts and “relegate [them] to the status of second-class citizens.”
The eight are original score, film editing, production design, makeup and hairstyling, sound, documentary short, live-action short and animated short. The Academy continues to insist that the nominees in those categories will be announced, and the winner’s acceptance speech aired, in edited form and aired as part of the three-hour ABC show.
That’s not good enough for these artists.
- 3/9/2022
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir continued her winning streak, claiming top honors for both her “Joker” and “Chernobyl” scores at Tuesday night’s inaugural awards of the Society of Composers & Lyricists at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center.
Her music for “Joker” was named outstanding original score for a studio film and her score for HBO’s “Chernobyl” was cited as outstanding original score for a television or streaming production. They followed her Golden Globe win Sunday night for “Joker” and BAFTA nomination earlier Tuesday. She won the Emmy in September for her score to the HBO miniseries “Chernobyl.”
Guðnadóttir is among the most talked-about newcomers in film music, first for her “Chernobyl” score (built largely on sounds she recorded while visiting the nuclear power plant where it was shot) and more recently her “Joker” music (her electro-acoustic cello providing the accompaniment for star Joaquin Phoenix’s on-screen dancing). She...
Her music for “Joker” was named outstanding original score for a studio film and her score for HBO’s “Chernobyl” was cited as outstanding original score for a television or streaming production. They followed her Golden Globe win Sunday night for “Joker” and BAFTA nomination earlier Tuesday. She won the Emmy in September for her score to the HBO miniseries “Chernobyl.”
Guðnadóttir is among the most talked-about newcomers in film music, first for her “Chernobyl” score (built largely on sounds she recorded while visiting the nuclear power plant where it was shot) and more recently her “Joker” music (her electro-acoustic cello providing the accompaniment for star Joaquin Phoenix’s on-screen dancing). She...
- 1/8/2020
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
The Song Of Names star Clive Owen with producer Robert Lantos and director François Girard at Sony in New York Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
François Girard’s The Song Of Names, based on the novel by Norman Lebrecht, screenplay by Jefferey Caine with a score by Howard Shore is produced by Robert Lantos, Lyse Lafontaine and Nick Hirschkorn, and stars Tim Roth and Clive Owen with Catherine McCormack, Jonah Hauer-King (Prince Eric in Rob Marshall’s upcoming The Little Mermaid), Luke Doyle, Gerran Howell, Misha Handley, and Eddie Izzard.
Martin (Gerran Howell) with Dovidl (Jonah Hauer-King) in The Song Of Names Photo: Sabrina Lantos
From what Ed Bahlman calls the 'fantastic' documentary Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould to The Red Violin (Oscar to John Corigliano for Best Original Score), starring Samuel L Jackson, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemyng, Carlo Cecchi and Sylvia Chang, François Girard is no stranger to films centered around music.
François Girard’s The Song Of Names, based on the novel by Norman Lebrecht, screenplay by Jefferey Caine with a score by Howard Shore is produced by Robert Lantos, Lyse Lafontaine and Nick Hirschkorn, and stars Tim Roth and Clive Owen with Catherine McCormack, Jonah Hauer-King (Prince Eric in Rob Marshall’s upcoming The Little Mermaid), Luke Doyle, Gerran Howell, Misha Handley, and Eddie Izzard.
Martin (Gerran Howell) with Dovidl (Jonah Hauer-King) in The Song Of Names Photo: Sabrina Lantos
From what Ed Bahlman calls the 'fantastic' documentary Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould to The Red Violin (Oscar to John Corigliano for Best Original Score), starring Samuel L Jackson, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemyng, Carlo Cecchi and Sylvia Chang, François Girard is no stranger to films centered around music.
- 12/21/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Whenever Thomas Newman reunites with director Sam Mendes, it often results in an Oscar nomination for the renowned music composer. Newman has received a whopping 14 Oscar bids throughout his career, of which three were for scoring Mendes films: “American Beauty” (1999), “Road to Perdition” (2002) and “Skyfall” (2012). (Click through our photo gallery above highlighting all of Newman’s noms.) Now a potential 15th Oscar nomination is on the horizon for Newman thanks to “1917,” Universal’s impressive World War I epic directed and co-written by Mendes. Can Newman finally take home the golden statue?
See‘1917’: Sam Mendes, Roger Deakins and company on how it takes ‘a lot of praying’ to make a one-shot war movie [Watch]
“1917,” which takes place in northern France during the first World War, tells the story of two young soldiers (played by George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman) who are tasked with sending a message that would stop their...
See‘1917’: Sam Mendes, Roger Deakins and company on how it takes ‘a lot of praying’ to make a one-shot war movie [Watch]
“1917,” which takes place in northern France during the first World War, tells the story of two young soldiers (played by George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman) who are tasked with sending a message that would stop their...
- 11/26/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
In 1988, director Francois Girard saw his drama The Red Violin earn composer John Corigliano the Academy Award for best original score. Now the Quebec director wants his latest movie, Hochelaga, Land of Souls — about a fictional Montreal archaeological dig — to secure a nomination after being chosen by Canada as its best foreign-language film Oscar contender.
"It's always a tough race, but we've done a film that's deeply rooted in our culture, and it speaks honestly about who we are," says Girard, an Academy member himself, of the movie's Oscar chances.
The indie drama, which stars Vincent Perez...
"It's always a tough race, but we've done a film that's deeply rooted in our culture, and it speaks honestly about who we are," says Girard, an Academy member himself, of the movie's Oscar chances.
The indie drama, which stars Vincent Perez...
- 11/28/2017
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Welcome back to Mailbag, a series about the sometimes weird, sometimes fun stuff we get in the mail. Today, Assistant Editor Alex McLevy brings in the vinyl re-issue of the Oscar-nominated score for Altered States, the bonkers “William Hurt takes drugs and hangs out in an isolation chamber” mindfuck of a film. The new record features exclusive liner notes from composer John Corigliano and gorgeous artwork provided by the art collective We Buy Your Kids.
- 6/15/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko
- avclub.com
Glenn here bringing you some more trivia from this year’s best original song category. Obviously, I could be mistaken about some of these, but, well, in which case la la la, not listening, move along.
Trivia #1 – 2016 marks the first time in Oscar history that two documentaries have ever been nominated in a category outside of the non-fiction categories. While documentaries have been nominated in the original song category in the past – Mondo Cane in ’62 being the first, I believe – and Hoop Dreams scored a best editing nomination in 1995, this year both The Hunting Ground’s “Til It Happens to You” and Racing Extinction’s “Manta Ray” make for a first that two have been cited.
Trivia #2 – This year’s nomination for “Manta Ray” is the third nomination for an enviro-doc in this category in the last decade. While Melissa Etheridge’s “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth...
Trivia #1 – 2016 marks the first time in Oscar history that two documentaries have ever been nominated in a category outside of the non-fiction categories. While documentaries have been nominated in the original song category in the past – Mondo Cane in ’62 being the first, I believe – and Hoop Dreams scored a best editing nomination in 1995, this year both The Hunting Ground’s “Til It Happens to You” and Racing Extinction’s “Manta Ray” make for a first that two have been cited.
Trivia #2 – This year’s nomination for “Manta Ray” is the third nomination for an enviro-doc in this category in the last decade. While Melissa Etheridge’s “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth...
- 2/10/2016
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Visionary director Julie Taymorcurates and hoststhe first National Sawdust concert tonight, November 6 at 730pm. Made In Brooklyn, an evening inspired by that artistically fertile corner of New York City, will feature music by Brooklyn-born composers including the great George Gershwin and Oscar-winners Aaron Copland, John Corigliano and Elliot Goldenthal. The concert will feature the world concert premiere of Goldenthal's String Quartet No. 1 'The Stone Cutters' performed by Flux Quartet, the 'Chaconne' from Corigliano's Academy Award-winning score for The Red Violin, performed by Tim Fain amp Stephen Gosling, and much more.
- 11/6/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Visionary director Julie Taymor will curate and host the first National Sawdust concert on Friday, November 6 at 730pm. Made In Brooklyn, an evening inspired by that artistically fertile corner of New York City, will feature music by Brooklyn-born composers including the great George Gershwin and Oscar-winners Aaron Copland, John Corigliano and Elliot Goldenthal. The concert will feature the world concert premiere of Goldenthal's String Quartet No. 1 'The Stone Cutters' performed by Flux Quartet, the 'Chaconne' from Corigliano's Academy Award-winning score for The Red Violin, performed by Tim Fain amp Stephen Gosling, and much more.
- 10/8/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Last year’s indie upstart Whiplash, which premiered at Sundance, banked three Academy Awards this February, including one for the compulsively-watchable powerhouse performance by J.K. Simmons as conservatory conductor Terence Fletcher.
Quebec native François Girard has already retraced the first few steps made by Whiplash director Damien Chazelle; His next film, Boychoir, played the festival circuit, starting with September’s Toronto International Film Festival, and his music conservatory-set film also features a noted portrayer of antiheroes – this time Dustin Hoffman – as the conductor.
The only difference we can see thus far? Boychoir will be 100% more lighthearted than Whiplash. It’s about a children’s choir after all!
Girard’s 1998 film The Red Violin, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Canada’s own Colm Feore, netted an Academy Award win for Best Original Score. Though The Red Violin’s seventy-seven-year-old composer John Corigliano won’t be reteaming with Girard for Boychoir, we...
Quebec native François Girard has already retraced the first few steps made by Whiplash director Damien Chazelle; His next film, Boychoir, played the festival circuit, starting with September’s Toronto International Film Festival, and his music conservatory-set film also features a noted portrayer of antiheroes – this time Dustin Hoffman – as the conductor.
The only difference we can see thus far? Boychoir will be 100% more lighthearted than Whiplash. It’s about a children’s choir after all!
Girard’s 1998 film The Red Violin, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Canada’s own Colm Feore, netted an Academy Award win for Best Original Score. Though The Red Violin’s seventy-seven-year-old composer John Corigliano won’t be reteaming with Girard for Boychoir, we...
- 3/11/2015
- by Sasha James
- Cineplex
Two iconic artists -- operatic superstar Marilyn Horne and Broadway legend Patti LuPone -- will join together for a conversation about the unlikely role they share in common Samira in John Corigliano's 'grand opera buffa' The Ghosts of Versailles. The conversation, to be livestreamed at LAOpera.org beginning at 530pm tonight, February 27, will be hosted by James Conlon, La Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, who has worked extensively with both artists.
- 2/27/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Ghosts Of Versailles' Marilyn Horne, Patti LuPone and James Conlon Set for Livestream Chat Today
Two iconic artists -- operatic superstar Marilyn Horne and Broadway legend Patti LuPone -- will join together for a conversation about the unlikely role they share in common Samira in John Corigliano's 'grand opera buffa' The Ghosts of Versailles. The conversation, to be livestreamed at LAOpera.org beginning at 530pm tonight, February 27, will be hosted by James Conlon, La Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, who has worked extensively with both artists.
- 2/27/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Two iconic artists -- operatic superstar Marilyn Horne and Broadway legend Patti LuPone -- will join together for a conversation about the unlikely role they share in common Samira in John Corigliano's 'grand opera buffa' The Ghosts of Versailles. The conversation, to be livestreamed at LAOpera.org beginning at 530pm on Friday, February 27, will be hosted by James Conlon, La Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, who has worked extensively with both artists.
- 2/26/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…
Timo Chen: I worked a lot in 2014 so I didn’t get out much. That said, I was able to recall three things that I discovered that changed a few things in my life.
• Learning to solder and then learning that you could learn just about anything on youtube. I had previously only used electrical tape and sloppy fixtures for all my electronic music endeavors. I told myself that I had to learn how to solder so I looked it up on youtube and was blown away by how many enthusiasts there were giving detailed instruction on something as commonplace as soldering. Then I started doing the same with carpentry and building more and more things–fixtures around the studio, etc. Learning to teach myself to build things was a huge discovery for me in 2014.
• Two pieces of music: Te Deum by Arvo Pärt.
Timo Chen: I worked a lot in 2014 so I didn’t get out much. That said, I was able to recall three things that I discovered that changed a few things in my life.
• Learning to solder and then learning that you could learn just about anything on youtube. I had previously only used electrical tape and sloppy fixtures for all my electronic music endeavors. I told myself that I had to learn how to solder so I looked it up on youtube and was blown away by how many enthusiasts there were giving detailed instruction on something as commonplace as soldering. Then I started doing the same with carpentry and building more and more things–fixtures around the studio, etc. Learning to teach myself to build things was a huge discovery for me in 2014.
• Two pieces of music: Te Deum by Arvo Pärt.
- 2/5/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Nearly a quarter-century after its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, the monumental 'grand opera buffa' The Ghosts of Versailles, by composer John Corigliano and librettist William C. Hoffman, will receive its long awaited west coast premiere in a new production directed by 2014 Tony Award winner Darko Tresnjak. La Opera Music Director James Conlon will conduct performances featuring the work's original orchestrations, heard for the first time since the opera's 1999 European premiere.
- 12/18/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Ascap Foundation Awards Ceremony was held at The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center and Broadwayworld was there. This years recipient of the Masters Award was composer John Corigliano. Mr. Corigliano has also won fiver Grammy's a Pulitzer Prize the Grawemeyer Award and an Academy Award for his many scores and compositions. Rupert Holmes, Composer, Playwright, lyricist, mystery novelist, arranger-conductor, screenwriter, record producer and singer-songwriter received the Foundations George M. Cohan Award which is made possible by the Friars Foundation.
- 12/11/2014
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
La Opera will soon present the first full-scale production in this century of John Corigliano's grand opera buffa, one of the most acclaimed operas of our time. Extravagantly scaled, gloriously tuneful, supremely touching and yet uproariously entertaining, The Ghosts of Versailles turns history on its head as love attempts to alter the course of destiny. Running February 7- March 1, 2015, the production will feature direction by Tony winner Darko Tresnjak.
- 7/14/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today is "Star Wars Day." You know, "May the fourth," because it sounds like "May the force (be with you)." Get It??? There has been plenty of "Star Wars" discussion this week as the people threatening to give us a seventh film in this storied franchise dropped a few casting details on the world. People like Oscar Isaac and Max von Sydow and Adam Driver will be joining old timers Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher for "Star Wars: Episode VII - Whatever Nifty Subtitle They Give It," and we'll probably be hearing about it constantly as the film forges on through production and post-production. To mark today's occasion, director J.J. Abrams and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan offered up a video howdy, which you can watch below if these movies are your thing. In case it's not readily evident, they're certainly not my thing, but I can't very well be...
- 5/4/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Lance Horne performing at Lincoln Center.
What do you get when you add Alan Cumming, Alice Ripley and Rachel Dratch on stage with Emmy Award-winning composer, musician, vocalist and producer Lance Horne? If you’re in New York City on March 31st, you can find out.
Horne will be performing songs from his acclaimed CD First Things Last at NY hot spot, Birdland (his debut at the venue) with help from Cumming, Ripley and Dratch, who all appear on the CD along with Cheyenne Jackson, Ricki Lake, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Meow Meow and Lea DeLaria. On the same night, Horne will also provide a preview to The Night Before My Wedding, his upcoming collaboration with Neil Gaiman.
And, if you’re not in New York, Horne also has upcoming dates in San Francisco (with the Sf Gay Men’s Chorus, March 25-26) and Los Angeles (at The Rockwell April 15th).
TheBacklot...
What do you get when you add Alan Cumming, Alice Ripley and Rachel Dratch on stage with Emmy Award-winning composer, musician, vocalist and producer Lance Horne? If you’re in New York City on March 31st, you can find out.
Horne will be performing songs from his acclaimed CD First Things Last at NY hot spot, Birdland (his debut at the venue) with help from Cumming, Ripley and Dratch, who all appear on the CD along with Cheyenne Jackson, Ricki Lake, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Meow Meow and Lea DeLaria. On the same night, Horne will also provide a preview to The Night Before My Wedding, his upcoming collaboration with Neil Gaiman.
And, if you’re not in New York, Horne also has upcoming dates in San Francisco (with the Sf Gay Men’s Chorus, March 25-26) and Los Angeles (at The Rockwell April 15th).
TheBacklot...
- 3/24/2014
- by Jim Halterman
- The Backlot
By Terence Johnson
Managing Editor
The New Year is almost upon us and several Oscar contenders are hoping that with the new year comes new Oscar fortunes. Being overdue is a concept many trot out during the awards season, so I decided to take a look at some of the people in the race with multiple nominations that could possibly be shedding the Oscar bridesmaid label.
David O. Russell
Nominations: 3, Best Director (The Fighter in 2011 and Silver Linings Playbook in 2012) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Silver Linings Playbook in 2012)
Closest Call: Best Director for Silver Linings Playbook in 2012
Analysis: This is the flimsiest one on the list by virtue of his overdue status only being two years old. However, he has gotten 3 nominations for during that stretch and it’s only a matter of time before he wins one. To be honest, it was quite surprising he didn’t pick up...
Managing Editor
The New Year is almost upon us and several Oscar contenders are hoping that with the new year comes new Oscar fortunes. Being overdue is a concept many trot out during the awards season, so I decided to take a look at some of the people in the race with multiple nominations that could possibly be shedding the Oscar bridesmaid label.
David O. Russell
Nominations: 3, Best Director (The Fighter in 2011 and Silver Linings Playbook in 2012) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Silver Linings Playbook in 2012)
Closest Call: Best Director for Silver Linings Playbook in 2012
Analysis: This is the flimsiest one on the list by virtue of his overdue status only being two years old. However, he has gotten 3 nominations for during that stretch and it’s only a matter of time before he wins one. To be honest, it was quite surprising he didn’t pick up...
- 12/31/2013
- by Terence Johnson
- Scott Feinberg
It's a testament to the sheer willfulness of John Corigliano's challenging score that during a viewing of Altered States (1980) the soundtrack miraculously holds its own against Ken Russell's visual orgies of Parajanovian iconographic tableaux, each escalating in insanity as we delve head-long (and nightmare-deep) into a highly subjective hero's journey from hopelessness towards redemption.
Though Paddy Chayefsky's script covers several years in the courtship, marriage, and separation of two driven Ivy league academic professionals, protagonist Jessup (William Hurt) painfully and glaringly can not bring himself to say "I love you" to his partner until the last line of the movie. If the L-word's conspicuous absence hangs over the resultant dazzlingly brazen hallucinatory proceedings, Jessup is haunted in his state of arrested development by another word that fills the wounded negative space left in a soul lacking love: "terrible," both a defining word and worldview that Jessup...
Though Paddy Chayefsky's script covers several years in the courtship, marriage, and separation of two driven Ivy league academic professionals, protagonist Jessup (William Hurt) painfully and glaringly can not bring himself to say "I love you" to his partner until the last line of the movie. If the L-word's conspicuous absence hangs over the resultant dazzlingly brazen hallucinatory proceedings, Jessup is haunted in his state of arrested development by another word that fills the wounded negative space left in a soul lacking love: "terrible," both a defining word and worldview that Jessup...
- 2/22/2012
- MUBI
It truly is the Year of Adele, as the British singer took home every Grammy she was for which she was nominated, totaling six wins altogether, including Album, Record and Song of the Year. Foo Fighters were second for total wins, with five, followed by the absent Kanye West with four wins.
The complete list of winners:
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Born This Way -- Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and...
The complete list of winners:
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Born This Way -- Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and...
- 2/13/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The nominees have been announced for the 54th annual Grammy Awards. Kanye West leads the nominations with seven; Adele, Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars each garner six nods; and Lil Wayne and Skrillex each are up for five awards. The Grammys air live on CBS Feb. 12, 2012.
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Born This Way -- Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie)
"The Cave" -- Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford and Country Winston,...
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Born This Way -- Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie)
"The Cave" -- Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford and Country Winston,...
- 12/1/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Big news on this lovely Friday Twilighters! According to MovieScore Magazine Howard Shore is set to score the third film in the Twilight Saga film franchise Eclipse. Back in December Eclipse director David Slade tweeted Been quite a week we almost have our composer all fingers crossed for some great news soon but this is the first weve heard a name for the film. Read more from MovieScore below Howard Shore is on board to compose the original score for the third film in the Twilight series The Twilight Saga Eclipse. Temple Hill Entertainment today confirmed to MovieScore Magazine that the Lord of the Rings composer is going to write the music for the film following in the footsteps of Carter Burwell who scored the first film in 2008 and Alexandre Desplat who wrote the music for the second New Moon. Shore has begun work spotting the movie this week.Howard Shore...
- 1/22/2010
- twilightersanonymous.com
Howard Shore’s original score from the upcoming Mel Gibson action thriller, Edge of Darkness, will be released on CD by Watertower Music on January 26, 2010, co-inciding with the film’s premiere on January 29. Watertower Music is Warner Bros’ new soundtrack brand, formerly known as New Line Records. As MovieScore Magazine previously reported, Shore replaced John Corigliano as the composer on the film, presumably as a result of the film ...
- 12/22/2009
- by Mikael Carlsson
- MovieScore Magazine
John Corigliano’s score for Revolution, the 1985 Hugh Hudson epic starring Al Pacino, has never been available commercially on CD or LP. Until now: Varèse Sarabande today announced that an album featuring Corigliano’s score will be available first through their CD Club and later next year via regular stores. Revolution was Corigliano’s second film score after the Academy Award-nominated Altered States (1980). It is a large orchestral work with a ...
- 12/7/2009
- by Mikael Carlsson
- MovieScore Magazine
Opera Boston announces the company's first commissioned work- the world premiere of Madame White Snake, a new opera based on a beloved ancient Chinese legend, by composer Zhou Long and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs. Co-commissioned with the Beijing Music Festival (Bmf), it is the first world premiere by the Bmf and an American company. Madame White Snake will have three performances (Feb. 26, 28, and March 2, 2010) at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston and two performances in Beijing in October 2010. Planning has begun to bring Madame White Snake to several Chinese cities following the Chinese premiere in Beijing; the proposed tour is the first by an American Opera Company in China since San Francisco's Western Opera Company in 1987. The education and outreach program of Madame White Snake is presented by State Street Corporation.
Madame White Snake is one of just four world premieres by U.S. opera companies in the 2009-10 season.
Madame White Snake is one of just four world premieres by U.S. opera companies in the 2009-10 season.
- 11/12/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Quick, what’s the scariest horror film score out there? I’m sure a couple of no-brainers came to mind, and a few of you probably thought of something wholly original. Thanks to the Cinemagic channel on Sirius Xm, we have an official list to choose from. There are a few shocking inclusions, and a couple of omissions, one that I, myself, deem glaring.
See for yourself:
Halloween John Carpenter 1
Psycho Bernard Herrmann 2
The Shining Wendy Carlos/Assorted 3
Jaws John Williams 4
Alien Jerry Goldsmith 5
Omen, The Jerry Goldsmith 6
Bride of Frankenstein Franz Waxman 7
Thing, The Ennio Morricone 8
Exorcist, The Pendereki 9
Fog, The John Carpenter 10
Rosemary’s Baby Christopher Komeda 11
Hellraiser Christopher Young 12
Friday the 13th Harry Manfredini 13
A Nightmare on Elm Street Charles Bernstein 14
Suspira Goblin 15
Poltergeist Jerry Goldsmith 16
Changeling, The Rick Williams 17
Dawn of the Dead Assorted 18
Haunted Palace, The Ronald Stein 19
Amityville Horror, The Lalo Schifrin 20
Creepshow John...
See for yourself:
Halloween John Carpenter 1
Psycho Bernard Herrmann 2
The Shining Wendy Carlos/Assorted 3
Jaws John Williams 4
Alien Jerry Goldsmith 5
Omen, The Jerry Goldsmith 6
Bride of Frankenstein Franz Waxman 7
Thing, The Ennio Morricone 8
Exorcist, The Pendereki 9
Fog, The John Carpenter 10
Rosemary’s Baby Christopher Komeda 11
Hellraiser Christopher Young 12
Friday the 13th Harry Manfredini 13
A Nightmare on Elm Street Charles Bernstein 14
Suspira Goblin 15
Poltergeist Jerry Goldsmith 16
Changeling, The Rick Williams 17
Dawn of the Dead Assorted 18
Haunted Palace, The Ronald Stein 19
Amityville Horror, The Lalo Schifrin 20
Creepshow John...
- 10/30/2009
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive. Last week, MovieScore Magazine published the news about Howard Shore replacing John Corigliano as the original score composer on the upcoming Mel Gibson thriller, Edge of Darkness. Today, we have a lot more information for you – from Corigliano himself! One of the most respected and acclaimed composers of contemporary concert music in the world, Corigliano had written three feature film scores prior to Edge of Darkness, with The Red ...
- 10/28/2009
- by Mikael Carlsson
- MovieScore Magazine
John Corigliano’s score for the upcoming Mel Gibson thriller Edge of Darkness, directed by Martin Campbell, will be replaced by a new score by Howard Shore. The switch of composers was first indicated when the theatrical poster for the film appeared online this week, showing a credit block that makes no mention of Corigliano but lists Howard Shore under the “music by” tag. Warner Bros. has confirmed to MovieScore Magazine ...
- 10/20/2009
- by Mikael Carlsson
- MovieScore Magazine
With the recent remake of the 1972 shocker The Last House On The Left now available on DVD, new audiences have been seeking out Wes Craven's original film. At the inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors (to be held October 30 through November 1 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas), Fangoria welcomes the "baddies" of the original film, with David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, and Marc Sheffler all set to appear!
Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.
David Hess:
David began his professional career as a songwriter for Shalimar Music in 1957, under the pseudonym of David Hill. David's first recording was a quick hit, which was later performed and credited to Elvis Presley. The song: "All Shook Up.
Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.
David Hess:
David began his professional career as a songwriter for Shalimar Music in 1957, under the pseudonym of David Hill. David's first recording was a quick hit, which was later performed and credited to Elvis Presley. The song: "All Shook Up.
- 10/13/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Staff)
- Fangoria
#2 - American Beauty
(Thomas Newman)
A second-generation member of Hollywood's preeminent musical dynasty, composer Thomas Newman weighs in on our countdown with the #2 most influential score of the past decade: American Beauty.
American Beauty score was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to John Corigliano's "The Red Violin". Perhaps just what kind of influence Newman's score has bestowed on modern film composing can be summed up by a comment on the Movie Music UK website:
"It's difficult to know what to say about Thomas Newman's score, except that it can probably be summed up by one simple word: unconventional. You only need to look at the list of instruments used in the score's make-up to see what I mean - tablas, kim-kim drums, bird calls, mandolas, Appalachian dulcimers, lap steel guitars, ukuleles, arpeggiated violins, detuned mandolins. And a saz - whatever a saz is."
The fact is...
(Thomas Newman)
A second-generation member of Hollywood's preeminent musical dynasty, composer Thomas Newman weighs in on our countdown with the #2 most influential score of the past decade: American Beauty.
American Beauty score was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to John Corigliano's "The Red Violin". Perhaps just what kind of influence Newman's score has bestowed on modern film composing can be summed up by a comment on the Movie Music UK website:
"It's difficult to know what to say about Thomas Newman's score, except that it can probably be summed up by one simple word: unconventional. You only need to look at the list of instruments used in the score's make-up to see what I mean - tablas, kim-kim drums, bird calls, mandolas, Appalachian dulcimers, lap steel guitars, ukuleles, arpeggiated violins, detuned mandolins. And a saz - whatever a saz is."
The fact is...
- 10/6/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (SCOREcast Admin)
- SCOREcastOnline.com
John Corigliano, one of the most acclaimed composers of contemporary concert music who wrote the groundbreaking score for Altered States in 1980 and won an Oscar for The Red Violin ten years ago, is making a spectacular comeback to the film scoring stage. The Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency confirms that Corigliano is doing the music for Edge of Darkness, the new thriller from director Martin Campbell, starring Mel Gibson as a detective who uncovers a government collusion when investigates the death of his activist daughter. The film is based on the 1985 TV miniseries which featured a score by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton. Gk Films produces for release on November 11.
- 2/19/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
- MovieScore Magazine
Former Led Zeppelin star Robert Plant and his new performance partner Alison Krauss were the toast of the 51st Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night after claiming a fistful of honours.The duo picked up awards for Album of The Year, Record of The Year, Best Pop Collaboration, Best Country Collaboration and Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.
Lil Wayne, who was the most nominated artist at this year's Grammys, took home three prizes and a share of the Best Rap Performance for a Duo or Group for Swagga Like Us with Jay-z, T.I. and Kanye West.
Coldplay were also triple winners, claiming Song of The Year, Best Rock Album and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals.
Double winners included Metallica, Al Green, Daft Punk, gospel star Kirk Franklin, Brad Paisley and Peter Gabriel and composer Thomas Newman, who won honours for their work on the Wall-e soundtrack.
Neil Diamond, the Four Tops, Dean Martin and music mogul Clive Davis were among those honoured with special awards during the ceremony.
The night was a star-studded affair - with more performers than ever before hitting the stage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the event.
Highlights included Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift's duet on the country star's 15, Jennifer Hudson's stirring rendition of Diane Warren's You Pulled Me Through - backed by a gospel choir, the Jonas Brothers' collaboration with Stevie Wonder, Coldplay's performance with rapper Jay-z and Lil Wayne and Robin Thicke's rousing tribute to New Orleans with Terence Blanchard and Allen Toussaint.
Rockers U2 kicked off the 51st Grammys with new song Get on Your Boots and heavily-pregnant M.I.A., who was due to give birth on Sunday, performed Paper Planes/Swagga Like Us with rappers Lil Wayne, Jay-z, T.I. and Kanye West.
Lil Wayne, who was the most nominated artist at this year's Grammys, took home three prizes and a share of the Best Rap Performance for a Duo or Group for Swagga Like Us with Jay-z, T.I. and Kanye West.
Coldplay were also triple winners, claiming Song of The Year, Best Rock Album and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals.
Double winners included Metallica, Al Green, Daft Punk, gospel star Kirk Franklin, Brad Paisley and Peter Gabriel and composer Thomas Newman, who won honours for their work on the Wall-e soundtrack.
Neil Diamond, the Four Tops, Dean Martin and music mogul Clive Davis were among those honoured with special awards during the ceremony.
The night was a star-studded affair - with more performers than ever before hitting the stage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the event.
Highlights included Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift's duet on the country star's 15, Jennifer Hudson's stirring rendition of Diane Warren's You Pulled Me Through - backed by a gospel choir, the Jonas Brothers' collaboration with Stevie Wonder, Coldplay's performance with rapper Jay-z and Lil Wayne and Robin Thicke's rousing tribute to New Orleans with Terence Blanchard and Allen Toussaint.
Rockers U2 kicked off the 51st Grammys with new song Get on Your Boots and heavily-pregnant M.I.A., who was due to give birth on Sunday, performed Paper Planes/Swagga Like Us with rappers Lil Wayne, Jay-z, T.I. and Kanye West.
- 2/9/2009
- WENN
Spanning several centuries and even more languages, "The Red Violin" is an artfully composed, intriguingly rendered tale about a particularly soulful musical instrument and its profound effect on the lives of those who cross its predestined path.
Directed by Francois Girard and written by Girard and Don McKellar, who collaborated on 1994's equally inspired "32 Short Films About Glenn Gould," the understated epic, with its intricately interwoven story line, casts quite a beguiling spell.
The Canadian-Italian co-production should score some impressive art house numbers for Lions Gate.
Using a contemporary auction as its framing device, the film nimbly moves back and forth in time, charting the course of a priceless violin with an odd reddish hue.
Created by 17th century master violin maker Nicolo Bussotti (Carlo Cecchi) as a gift for his soon-to-be-born son, the instrument becomes inextricably linked to the predictions of a tarot card reader (Anita Laurenzi) after Bussotti's wife Anna (Irene Grazioli) and the baby both die in childbirth.
Resurfacing in an Austrian monastery circa 1792, the red violin falls into the hands of 6-year-old orphan Kasper Weiss (Christoph Koncz), a child prodigy with a weak heart. It later becomes the passed-around property of nomadic gypsies, ultimately finding its way to England in 1893, where it captures the attention of the roguish Frederick Pope (Jason Flemyng), a Byronic musician with a Mick Jagger swagger whose steamy affair with romance novelist Victoria Byrd (Greta Scacchi) will come to a torrid end.
Looking slightly worse for wear, the violin turns up in 20th century Shanghai, languishing in a pawn shop until it's purchased for a little girl who grows up to be Xiang Pei (Sylvia Chang), a party official of the Chinese Cultural Revolution who is forced to hide the offensive Western instrument of corruption.
From China, the story shifts back to its starting point in Montreal, where the violin is among a collection of musical treasures being sold for Chinese authorities by a Canadian auction house.
Dispatched to the auction, New York-based expert Charles Morritz (Samuel L. Jackson) is intrigued by the instrument's unusual coloring and becomes the latest and most likely the last person whose life will be changed by its presence.
Unafraid to blend in a little bit of Poe with the poetry, Girard and McKellar have assembled a rich storytelling tapestry. As each of the fortune teller's five tarot card readings propel the violin further into the future, Morritz's scientific research methodically peels back the layers of its tumultuous past.
While the film seems to fall just short of achieving an emotionally satisfying sweep -- there's a prevailing austerity that has a distancing effect on the material -- and the tone-shifting English episode feels a little out of place, there is much to be admired here.
Chang and Jackson are among the highlights of the very capable international cast, while behind-the-scenes contributions from cinematographer Alain Dostie, production designer Fran‚ois Seguin and costume designer Renee April are equally dynamic.
John Corigliano's score, meanwhile, creates a fittingly diverse musical landscape for violinist Joshua Bell's timeless, searing solos.
THE RED VIOLIN
Lions Gate Releasing
Director:Francois Girard
Screenwriters:Don McKellar with Francois Girard
Producer:Niv Fichman
Director of photography:Alain Dostie
Production designer:Francois Seguin
Editor:Gaetan Huot
Costume designer:Renee April
Music:John Corigliano
Casting:Deirdre Bowen
Color/stereo
Cast:
Charles Morritz:Samuel L. Jackson
Auctioneer:Colm Feore
Madame Leroux:Monique Mercure
Xiang Pei:Sylvia Chang
Frederick Pope:Jason Flemyng
Victoria:Greta Scacchi
Nicolo Bussotti:Carlo Cecchi
Anna Bussotti:Irene Grazioli
Cesca:Anita Laurenzi
Georges Poussin:Jean-Luc Bideau
Kaspar Weiss:Christoph Koncz
Running time -- 130 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Directed by Francois Girard and written by Girard and Don McKellar, who collaborated on 1994's equally inspired "32 Short Films About Glenn Gould," the understated epic, with its intricately interwoven story line, casts quite a beguiling spell.
The Canadian-Italian co-production should score some impressive art house numbers for Lions Gate.
Using a contemporary auction as its framing device, the film nimbly moves back and forth in time, charting the course of a priceless violin with an odd reddish hue.
Created by 17th century master violin maker Nicolo Bussotti (Carlo Cecchi) as a gift for his soon-to-be-born son, the instrument becomes inextricably linked to the predictions of a tarot card reader (Anita Laurenzi) after Bussotti's wife Anna (Irene Grazioli) and the baby both die in childbirth.
Resurfacing in an Austrian monastery circa 1792, the red violin falls into the hands of 6-year-old orphan Kasper Weiss (Christoph Koncz), a child prodigy with a weak heart. It later becomes the passed-around property of nomadic gypsies, ultimately finding its way to England in 1893, where it captures the attention of the roguish Frederick Pope (Jason Flemyng), a Byronic musician with a Mick Jagger swagger whose steamy affair with romance novelist Victoria Byrd (Greta Scacchi) will come to a torrid end.
Looking slightly worse for wear, the violin turns up in 20th century Shanghai, languishing in a pawn shop until it's purchased for a little girl who grows up to be Xiang Pei (Sylvia Chang), a party official of the Chinese Cultural Revolution who is forced to hide the offensive Western instrument of corruption.
From China, the story shifts back to its starting point in Montreal, where the violin is among a collection of musical treasures being sold for Chinese authorities by a Canadian auction house.
Dispatched to the auction, New York-based expert Charles Morritz (Samuel L. Jackson) is intrigued by the instrument's unusual coloring and becomes the latest and most likely the last person whose life will be changed by its presence.
Unafraid to blend in a little bit of Poe with the poetry, Girard and McKellar have assembled a rich storytelling tapestry. As each of the fortune teller's five tarot card readings propel the violin further into the future, Morritz's scientific research methodically peels back the layers of its tumultuous past.
While the film seems to fall just short of achieving an emotionally satisfying sweep -- there's a prevailing austerity that has a distancing effect on the material -- and the tone-shifting English episode feels a little out of place, there is much to be admired here.
Chang and Jackson are among the highlights of the very capable international cast, while behind-the-scenes contributions from cinematographer Alain Dostie, production designer Fran‚ois Seguin and costume designer Renee April are equally dynamic.
John Corigliano's score, meanwhile, creates a fittingly diverse musical landscape for violinist Joshua Bell's timeless, searing solos.
THE RED VIOLIN
Lions Gate Releasing
Director:Francois Girard
Screenwriters:Don McKellar with Francois Girard
Producer:Niv Fichman
Director of photography:Alain Dostie
Production designer:Francois Seguin
Editor:Gaetan Huot
Costume designer:Renee April
Music:John Corigliano
Casting:Deirdre Bowen
Color/stereo
Cast:
Charles Morritz:Samuel L. Jackson
Auctioneer:Colm Feore
Madame Leroux:Monique Mercure
Xiang Pei:Sylvia Chang
Frederick Pope:Jason Flemyng
Victoria:Greta Scacchi
Nicolo Bussotti:Carlo Cecchi
Anna Bussotti:Irene Grazioli
Cesca:Anita Laurenzi
Georges Poussin:Jean-Luc Bideau
Kaspar Weiss:Christoph Koncz
Running time -- 130 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 6/11/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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