Soundtrack Reviews
Reviews of 3 soundtrack releases: Joe Kramer’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (La-La Land), Carter Burwell’s Mr. Holmes (Lakeshore), and Jerry Goldsmith’s Warlock (Intrada).
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
CD: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Joe Kraemer’s real auspicious debut came in the form of the oddball The Way of the Gun (2000), the directorial debut of The Usual Suspects (1995) writer Christopher McQuarrie. McQuarrie went back to screenwriting for a lengthy period and re-emerged as director of Jack Reacher (2012), this time opting for a decisive 70s suspense thriller where violence remained just under the hood instead of being overt and visually chaotic…
MP3: Mr. Holmes (2015)
Carter Burwell’s never stopped working since making his debut with the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple (1984), and although he remains the writing-directing duo’s main music man, Burwell’s also handled a variety of genres in film and TV, but where he’s arguably at his best is crafting simple themes with minimal instrumentation for characters in delicate, absurd, or surreal circumstances…
CD: Warlock (1989)
When Intrada released their first LP and later CD editions of Jerry Goldsmith’s score, the film was already well-known as one of the last productions from Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, a great little indie company that specialized in a mix of B and occasional art house films, if not unconventional thrillers that would’ve been turned down by major studios…
Gysin and Burroughs’ Dreamachine
Reviews of two docs on a very trippy gizmo requiring no drugs or alcohol: William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine (2015) from Cult Epics + FLicKeR (2008) from Alive Mind.
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