This was my introduction to Björk. I was 14 and I think my brother had the soundtrack before I watched the movie. I never really investigated her music deeply beyond this. Maybe I should have. Maybe I will!
What I can say for certain is that this particular score left an immediate and permanent mark on my psyche. Revisiting it in context, I can see its threads in my DNA as a composer.
I am reminded that a film is…
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Dancer in the Dark 2000
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Enemy of the State 1998
Macho tech goons. Tony Scott was always defining capital "M" Movies. Something has definitely curdled in how I receive anything from Will Smith now but Hackman really makes this whole thing tick.
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Opening Night 1977
Well I guess I'm just going through all of Cassavetes work now... Is that a rite of passage for every movie lover?
Thrilling stuff. I can't remember the last time a film kept me on my toes quite like this. It continues to surprise until the final frame, methodically laying the pieces of a complex puzzle all the while. Again I'm struck by how free and alive it all feels, and yet there's a sense of such control in the…Translated from by -
Dead Calm 1989
I was riveted! I love a nautical thriller.
So many novel ways to inflict harm explored in this film. Apparently Orson Welles loved the book this was based on and was trying to make his own adaptation for years.
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