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SONY MUSIC TO RELEASE HE NAMED ME MALALA
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Available Now Digitally and on CD October 30
Score Written by Grammy©-winning Composer Thomas Newman
“One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.“ – Malala
(September 29 – New York) Sony Music proudly announces the release of HE NAMED ME MALALA (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). The original score for the film was written by multiple Grammy© winner and Academy Award® nominee, Thomas Newman. The soundtrack is available now digitally and on CD October 30. HE NAMED ME MALALA opens in select theatres in New York and Los Angeles on October 2 and nationwide October 9.
Academy Award® winning director, Davis Guggenheim says of Thomas Newman’s score:
“Watching Tom in his studio was pure artistry. His music brought the film to life pulling the characters’ emotional inner lives to the surface, threading and bonding the story together and allowing it to be fully realized.“
HE NAMED ME MALALA is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The then 15-year-old (she turned 18 this July) was singled out, along with her father, for advocating for girls’ education, and the attack on her sparked an outcry from supporters around the world. She miraculously survived and is now a leading campaigner for girls’ education globally as co-founder of the Malala Fund.
Acclaimed Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman) shows us how Malala, her father Zia and her family are committed to fighting for education for all girls worldwide. The film gives us an inside glimpse into this extraordinary young girl’s life – from her close relationship with her father who inspired her love for education, to her impassioned speeches at the UN, to her everyday life with her parents and brothers.
Thomas Newman is one of the most respected and recognized composers in film today. With an illustrious career of over 30 years, Newman has scored more than 70 feature films. Coming from a prominent musical dynasty – his father was the renowned composer Alfred Newman, and singer/songwriter/composer Randy Newman is his cousin – he has been nominated for twelve Academy Awards® and has won an Emmy Award®, two BAFTA Awards and six Grammy Awards®. Newman has composed the scores for many other notable films, including American Beauty, Skyfall, Erin Brockovich, The Good German, Finding Nemo and Wall-E for Pixar as well as The Horse Whisperer, The Help and The Iron Lady.
Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks Broadway and Flying Buddha imprints. For email updates and information please visit www.SonyMusicMasterworks.com.
HE NAMED ME MALALA (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) tracklisting:
1. A Pashtun Story
2. I Am Malala
3. Which Camera Now?
4. July 12
5. Ideology
6. Headmaster
7. Old Life New Life
8. Bonfires
9. Cat Burglar
10. School v. Celebrity
11. Courtship
12. Birmingham
13. Radio Mullah
14. A Fiery Speaker
15. Night
16. Candies for Books
17. No More There
18. Peace Prize
19. Refugees
20. The Women
21. Risk
22. Speak What Is in Your Soul
23. Grievous Injury
24. 66 Million Girls
25. The Same Malala
26. Who Really I Am
BUY LINKS
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/ost-malala-cd
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ost-malala
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/ost-malala-str
For more information contact KrakowerPolingPR@gmail.com, or @KrakowerPoling on Twitter
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A great Autumn for Thomas Newman fans.
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Nice review, James.
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Nov 7, 2015 - 2:29 AM
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Well, this is my new 'worst film score I've ever heard' winner, unfortunately. It might sound perfectly alright, maybe even very good, on disc, but in the film...
The film is the biggest culprit, a huge story, and arriving in cinemas, with a big name composer attached... but it has all the class of something hastily put together for a backwater TV channel. And Newman puts round glasses on a round face to make it all seem even more misguided than it already is.
Even when the filmmaker finally acknowledges the elephant in the room in the final scene, asking Malala outright if she's nothing more than her father's mouthpiece, Newman just carries on regardless, still in romcom mode. Ghastly.
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Nov 7, 2015 - 2:55 AM
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Well, this is my new 'worst film score I've ever heard' winner, unfortunately. It might sound perfectly alright, maybe even very good, on disc, but in the film...
The film is the biggest culprit, a huge story, and arriving in cinemas, with a big name composer attached... but it has all the class of something hastily put together for a backwater TV channel. And Newman puts round glasses on a round face to make it all seem even more misguided than it already is.
Even when the filmmaker finally acknowledges the elephant in the room in the final scene, asking Malala outright if she's nothing more than her father's mouthpiece, Newman just carries on regardless, still in romcom mode. Ghastly.
Wow. I haven't seen the film yet, but the score is one of my favourites of the year. Drop-dead gorgeous from start to finish! The best thing Newman has done this year.
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Nov 7, 2015 - 3:51 AM
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McD
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Well, this is my new 'worst film score I've ever heard' winner, unfortunately. It might sound perfectly alright, maybe even very good, on disc, but in the film...
The film is the biggest culprit, a huge story, and arriving in cinemas, with a big name composer attached... but it has all the class of something hastily put together for a backwater TV channel. And Newman puts round glasses on a round face to make it all seem even more misguided than it already is.
Even when the filmmaker finally acknowledges the elephant in the room in the final scene, asking Malala outright if she's nothing more than her father's mouthpiece, Newman just carries on regardless, still in romcom mode. Ghastly.
Wow. I haven't seen the film yet, but the score is one of my favourites of the year. Drop-dead gorgeous from start to finish! The best thing Newman has done this year.
I'm not attacking the actual music, just how it works in concert with a (very misguided) film.
I'd compare it to Amistad, which might allow you to disregard my comments even quicker! In that instance I think there's a stunning CD, but it worked badly in the film, turning an already poorly judged debacle to become more saccharine infested than even much better films could handle.
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Nov 7, 2015 - 3:54 AM
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Thor
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I'd compare it to Amistad, which might allow you to disregard my comments even quicker! In that instance I think there's a stunning CD, but it worked badly in the film, turning an already poorly judged debacle to become more saccharine infested than even much better films could handle.
I felt the same way about AMISTAD for many years, but after having bought it and seen it multiple times since, I've come to appreciate its many qualities and now consider it rather underrated. Yes, both Spielberg and Williams go a little overboard in the patriotic Americana in the courtroom scenes, but it's part of the rhetoric.
In any case, I intend to see MALALA soon, but I cannot imagine how such a restrained and wonderful score can be so bad, however the film turns out.
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