Soundtrack Reviews + Updates
Reviews of Jon Ekstrand’s Child 44 (2015) score and Michael Brook’s music for the IMAX 3D film Jerusalem (2013) from Lakeshore Records + details on the completion of my short video store doc, BSV 1172.
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CD: Child 44 (2015)
Jon Ekstrand’s palette for this period thriller is largely locked onto a modest string orchestra with slight percussion accompaniment, evoking a grim, grey, emotionally dead world – no coincidence, since the child murder plot takes place in Stalinist Soviet Russia…
CD: Jerusalem (2013)
Michael Brook is no stranger to the large film format IMAX, having previously scored Fires of Kuwait (1992) and India: Kingdom of the Tiger (2002), and his latest work features a gentle, highly introspective score on the city of Jerusalem (2013)…
BR: Conrack (1974)
The first film version of Pat Conroy’s autobiographical novel The Water is Wide is very much a reflection of the late sixties / early seventies, where a new crop of freshly minted teachers were keen on changing the world, bucking a conservative regime, and improving the lives of disenfranchised, marginalized kids, and empowering them with knowledge…
Rebel Pedagogues, Part 2: Jon Voight is Conrack
Review of Twilight Time’s Blu-ray edition of Martin Ritt’s Conrack (1974), based on Pat Conroy’s book “The Water is Wide”.
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