Comedy scoring is a thankless job, and 70-odd years after the term
"Mickey mousing" was probably coined, it's still easy to see composers
desperately trying to writ
The Chairman is part of a
great cycle of "Oriental" scores in the Jerry Goldsmith pantheon that
includes The Sand Pebbles, Tora!
Tora! Tora!, The Challen
Alien Nation is one of a
handful of all-electronic scores done by Jerry Goldsmith in the '80s,
the heyday of keyboard synth scores. Of course Goldsmith had been
experimenting with electronic sounds
Mark Isham scores the summer's quietest blockbuster.
By Jeff Bond
Excerpted from Vol. 10, No. 4, on
sale now...
Box-office analysts bemoaning the current state of the film industry's
coffers might do well to take a look back at early May's release of
Paul Haggis' Crash. The $6.5
million indie has grossed
2005 is going to go down as a strange year for geeks. It saw the
ostensible end of their two most beloved ongoing franchises: Star Trek and Comments: 0 (read on)
Independent filmmakers don't come more independent than Todd Solondz,
the man who made twisted heroes out of a socially challenged teenaged
girl in Welcome to the Dollhouse an
It's fitting that Jerry Goldsmith went out on projects with two of his
most ardent and important collaborators: Joe Dante and Michael
Crichton. Between the two of them they've inspired some of Goldsmith's
