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Hi All
Check out my round-up of what I consider The Best Scores of 2014, and The Composers To Watch, a list of capsule reviews led by the the cool musical deluge of EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS, and continued with such titles as AUTOMATA, NIGHTCRAWLER, THE 100-FOOT JOURNEY, SNOWPIERCER, UNDER THE SKIN and many more at:
http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=13882
Thanks as always for clicking on Filmmusicmag.com for the latest soundtrack reviews and composer interviews. I truly appreciate your musical appreciation for the site, and look forward to bringing you more cool coverage in 2015
Happy Holidays!
Daniel Schweiger
Soundtrack Editor
Filmmusicmag.com / AssignmentX.com
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Despite Desplat's pretty stellar 2014, I still think The Grand Budapest Hotel should be the score that gets him the nomination. It adds so much color to an already fun film.
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Hi Mike, I did consider it. Unfortunately, I'm not a big fan of Dragon 2, though it's music was very good. But very much like the original, and I always try to go for originality in my considerations.
I could have easily put Budapest in there Shaun, along with just about every other excellent score Alexandre did this year. But Imitation Game was the winner for me (and certainly good enough for the Golden Globes). I've got a personal rule about keeping it to a singular work of one composer per list to give other people the opportunity to be included. So you could definitely consider Marco Beltrami's Homesman, James Newtown Howard's Malefiecent (or Mockingjay) to be honorary members of my list.
In any case, my picks are my opinion, and as valid as any other soundtrack fan's for what they consider their favorite works this year.
Thanks again to everyone for reading. It's definitely the column I look forward to putting together every year.
DS
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Hi Mike, I did consider it. Unfortunately, I'm not a big fan of Dragon 2, though it's music was very good. But very much like the original, and I always try to go for originality in my considerations.
In any case, my picks are my opinion, and as valid as any other soundtrack fan's for what they consider their favorite works this year.
Thanks again to everyone for reading. It's definitely the column I look forward to putting together every year.
DS
Yes it is true, all about opinion and I have to admit I did not see all of the films you listed.
Maybe, if it is that clear for you, Daniel, not to try to assemble a list which is more objective, not only from an individual point of view, to call it "My best scores of 2014" or "D. S. 's list of best scores in 2014"?
That would show it is your opinion which is as good as anybody else's.
HTTYT 2's music btw in my book is more original, even as a sequel, than all of the films from your list I saw.
Maybe there are one or two you can't compare with, apples and oranges in a way,
but you said you did not like it, which I understand.
No Interstellar?
what I am interested in, Daniel, with so many scores on your desk and all, do you have time to let it happen to return to a recent score after it was released and you listened to it first time? And which scores would that be?
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Hi Mike, I did consider it. Unfortunately, I'm not a big fan of Dragon 2, though it's music was very good. But very much like the original, and I always try to go for originality in my considerations.
In any case, my picks are my opinion, and as valid as any other soundtrack fan's for what they consider their favorite works this year.
Thanks again to everyone for reading. It's definitely the column I look forward to putting together every year.
DS
Yes it is true, all about opinion and I have to admit I did not see all of the films you listed.
Maybe, if it is that clear for you, Daniel, not to try to assemble a list which is more objective, not only from an individual point of view, to call it "My best scores of 2014" or "D. S. 's list of best scores in 2014"?
That would show it is your opinion which is as good as anybody else's.
HTTYT 2's music btw in my book is more original, even as a sequel, than all of the films from your list I saw.
Maybe there are one or two you can't compare with, apples and oranges in a way,
but you said you did not like it, which I understand.
No Interstellar?
what I am interested in, Daniel, with so many scores on your desk and all, do you have time to let it happen to return to a recent score after it was released and you listened to it first time? And which scores would that be?
Hi Mike, I appreciate your question. It's a site that I'm proud to be attached to, and I stand for its editorial viewpoint as the soundtrack editor, much in the same way Harry Knowles stands for Aint It Cool, etc.
I appreciate how much you, and everyone loved Dragon 2. But again, it just didn't do it for me. The music was very nice, and also very similar to the first, way superior film. And dare I say score.
Interstellar is very good, but I felt stronger about my other choices.
I get a ton of material to listen to. But I only include entries on this list when I see how the score plays in conjunction with the movie, as opposed to basing it solely on the music alone. It's got to work together. Hence while a score like Under the Skin might send some people running as a sole listen, I thought it worked quite brilliantly in the film, and is the most truly original score I've heard in years.
And yes, with lots to listen to, I've re-visited several scores more than once, especially those on this list. But I'd have to say Snowpiercer holds the record number of listens for me.
DS
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