No Ilan Eshkeri? And another composer that deserves a mention is Pasquele Catalano (who did a beautiful score for Barney's Version, which received a general release early last year).
Good grief - I actually went to high school with Chris Bacon! He was a pretty good pianist/saxophone player - his Dad was amazing on the piano/organ - but he was also kind of a goof-off in Marching Band and I really didn't see him as one that would go into music.
Fast forward 15 years and I had *no* idea that he was *this* good. I've seen his name in the aforementioned movies but there was no way that I was going to put two and two together until I saw his hometown ("Provo, UT") in this article.
"...starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren as assassins/lovers"
Now there's a combination to pique the interest.
I neglected to mention that they also have an adopted mother/son relationship in the film. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a doctor who works for the mob, and his nurse is also his lover, played by Mo'Nique. Fascinating film, but not one where you'd think "The director's next film will be a Best Picture nominee."
By the way, I included Ilan Eshkeri in a previous Ten Composers On The Rise column, but I can't remember the year offhand.
And if Hellcats can be mentioned in Nathan Wang's piece, doesn't the (deservedly, unlike Hellcats) shortlived Night Stalker merit bringing up with Wandmacher (he scored all 10 episodes and wrote the theme heard in the pilot before some little-known tunesmith called Philip Glass did the one for the series)?
