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ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL: MUSIC FOR FILM – Elliot Goldenthal
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Each year at the Film Fest in Ghent, Belgium, one composer is awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Soundtrack Awards committee, and as part of that experience there is a live concert of their music, and an accompanying soundtrack compilation CD. Previous Lifetime Achievement Award winners include Laurence Rosenthal, Mark Isham, Mychael Danna, Gabriel Yared, Shigeru Umebayashi, Marco Beltrami, Carter Burwell, Terence Blanchard, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Alan Silvestri. In 2024, the recipient was Elliot Goldenthal, and this is the album celebrating him and his work. Read more…
Under-the-Radar Round Up 2022, Part 4A
Life has returned to world cinema in 2022 following the easing of the COVID-19 global pandemic, and at the end of the fourth quarter of the year I’m absolutely delighted to present the latest instalment in my on-going series of articles looking at the best under-the-radar scores from around the world. This article covers six scores for projects from disparate parts of Europe, and includes a Dutch-Belgian Christmas family film, a powerful Croatian drama, a Belgian nature documentary, a Spanish supernatural horror film, and two different scores by the same French composer – one a period drama film, and one a historical TV series looking at the life of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Read more…
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