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Oct 13, 2012 - 1:28 PM
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Mr Hand
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Any photos if anyone went to this?
I took some pictures of the master classes with the weak camera of my smartphone, I will post them later if I deem them acceptable.
So far the event organization is very professional and everything went smoothly. The only real bad point is that signing events with the composers and the masterclasses were overlapping, with the crew menacing to lock out people from the next MC, but that happily did not happen.
Ludovic Bource was very humble and humorous about his new celebrity and very informative about the process of scoring for film.
Marco Beltrami also was very humble, shy and soft-spoken, you could feel it was not one of his favorite exercise. He paid a very moving hommage to his mentor Jerry Goldsmith. Director Bertrand Tavernier was invited to talk about their collaboration on" In the Electric Mist" and was nothing short of complimentary, vowing to work with Beltrami again, possibly in a genre he's not yet recognized for.
Hans Zimmer was very talkative and very funny, but as the same time gave insight about the difficult relations with producers in Hollywood. He explained that composition for him should be a collaborative effort and not a solitary one, and concluded by wondering why French directors do nit find his telephone number.
Unfortunately he was in a hurry and the place holding the event was eager to close at 08:00pm precisely so many people were disappointed to be unable to approach him.
All the talks were conducted masterfully by French producer Stéphane Lerouge.
I'm looking forward to the concert tomorrow but so far this turns out to be a very promising event if it can root in Paris.
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Oct 15, 2012 - 1:25 AM
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Mr Hand
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And a great concert it was. Aftet a glimpse at last year Audi Talents laureate Pascal Lengagne's 17mn original composition "Insight" (let's hope it will be released soon), the former "Madame Cinema" of the biggest French pay-TV network was the surprise host of the event.
The first hour was an hommage to the guest American composers. Beltrami selected a medley of Hellboy, I Robot, Mimic, I am Dina and Terminator 3, a good panorama of his talent but maybe a bit short. For Zimmer, we were given two pieces : Da Vinci Code and Pirates...
Both composers and Bource were awarded a prize from the City of Paris officials, and Beltrami's prepared acceptance speech in French was very much appreciated :-).
Finally the live concert for" The Artist" (with Bource himself at the piano) was a revelation for me, as I had not seen the movie before. What a brilliant hommage to Cinema and what a fitting score! By the way, it was announced this cine-concert would began a worldwide tour tour with 300 events booked!
The orchestra (made of players from various classical orchestra from Paris and its region) was top notch all along under the direction of Ernst van Tiel (who conducted the original sessions for "The Artist").
It was a very pleasant week-end for me, the Festival organization was very professional. My only fear is that
It becomes only an institutional and PR event, as it was clearly not founded by grassroot fans. But so far a good balance has been kept. Let's hope for more editions!
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The first hour was an hommage to the guest American composers. Beltrami selected a medley of Hellboy, I Robot, Mimic, I am Dina and Terminator 3, a good panorama of his talent but maybe a bit short.
yes, it was a fantastic evening ! But really too short for the medley of Beltrami (and by the way, Mr Hand, you forget Knowing. And for T3, it was in fact the end credits of Mimic).
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(thanks to Eric for the picture) :