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I’m a big Burwell fan and I don’t think he’s done any tv work outside of Mildred Pierce and (if I remember correctly) the pilot of Enlightened.
He did the four episode HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge in 2014.
IMDb lists 1993's And the Band Played On as a TV movie but that seems wrong.
And they also list a CBS Schoolbreak Special: "Children Remember the Holocaust" (1995).
He hasn't worked much in TV though, that's true!
Yavar
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Why does it seem wrong? "And the Band Played On" says on screen:
"Music by
Carter Burwell"
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Oh I know I have the album; I just had thought it was a theatrical film rather than TV movie.
Yavar
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Ah, interesting. Thanks.
Yavar
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And it all started with his score for the film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, amirite? 
Yavar
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So what was your introduction to Burwell, out of curiosity? (I'm a big fan too, and this his Buffy score is just okay.)
Yavar
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I totally agree on loving all the scores you mentioned! Three Billboards is a cool introduction to him. I loved both film and score (perfectly understated but really made an impact in the film).
Yavar
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I’ve been following Burwell since his first score, and then Psycho III in 86 is when I really connected with his music. Still a favorite and one of the industry’s most underrated composers.
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I recommend you see the film, acathla... it's excellent too.
Yavar
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And it all just kept coming: Wonderstruck, Carol, True Grit, The Alamo, Rob Roy and most lately Conspiracy Theory (why isnt this an expanded release yet????!!).
And I have made myself a whole list of all the movies I need to watch which he scored. Some of the old ones are hard to find. So I have mostly listened to his "new" work.
Do make other Coen bros films a priority (Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, etc.)
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PSYCHO III (1986) remains one of my grails.
Burwell's first score for a major studio film. Anthony Perkis chose him personally after being impressed with his score to the Coen's independent movie "Blood Simple".
The movie and score are not as good as PSYCHO II, but are both underrated. Perkins managed to make an interesting film, even if lacking in suspense, with a lot of black comedy and some great sequences. Burwell's music in the film is very unique and was only partially released on LP and Tapes at the time of the film release (with only 15 min. of actual underscore and lots of source music [which was also composed by Burwell, but I'd have preferred more score and less source music]).
On Burwell's excelent website some lengthy samples are available (I recommend checking "Maureen in the Desert" [the movie main titles - a great theme that is a kind of love theme also used in "After the Shower"] and "Mother?") http://www.carterburwell.com/projects/Psycho3.html
Being an Universal film never released on CD I hope that it might be released complete in the near future by Intrada or Lalaland.
Couldn't agree more. One of my last remaining grails, and there is SO much unreleased music, all of it memorable and effective. I check in with Intrada about once a year to give them my annual begging for a CD.
I've wondered over the years about a brief scene in which Norman is playing the piano, and he's playing the main title/Maureen in the Desert and humming along with it. I wondered if the piano and humming were dubbed later, or if the theme had already been composed and he was playing it on set. Either way, it was a treat to see/hear Norman playing the main title music since that's such a rarity.
(Tried to find an existing Psycho III thread to add this to...and couldn't find a one, or a thread for Psycho II either even though we know threads exist. Wild card search produced nothing. Grumble grumble)
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