Score – Film Music Under a Fresh Lens
Review of Matt Schrader’s Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016) which is screening this week at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
Tag: Hans Zimmer
Film: Score – A Film Music Documentary (2016)
Film scoring hasn’t been wholly ignored by documentarians, but most works have been isolated to specific composers (Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, Toru Takemitsu) and produced primarily for TV, making Matt Schrader’s feature-length theatrical release rather bold…
Soundtrack Reviews
Soundtrack reviews of Clyde Lawrence & Cody Fitzgerald’s The Rewrite (Lakeshore Records), Ronen Landa’s Mad as Hell (Bandcamp), Patrick Doyle’s Cinderella (Walt Disney Records), and Hans Zimmer / Steve Mazzaro / Andrew Hawczynski’s Chappie (Varese Sarabande).
MP3: Chappie (2015)
According to the P.R. material, director Neill Blomkamp encouraged Hans Zimmer to embrace the synth gear of his early years, using an array of decades-old electronic instruments to create a score that’s warm and analogue heavy, yet clearly reflecting Zimmer’s present-day writing style that’s part minimalism, contemporary electronica, and industrial grimness…
BR: Rush (2013)
What’s remarkable about Rush is although the racing scenes really don’t evolve into extended montages until the end, the drama as scripted by Peter Morgan (Frost / Nixon, The Queen) is rock solid, especially the dialogue, which captures the attitude and nastiness of rival racers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl)…
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