The ever-dependable Coen Brothers come up trumps again with The Man Who Wasn't There, the follow-up to their hugely successful film O Brother Where Art Thou. And while the latter had huge crossover potential on the soundtrack front, with its potted history of early American music, this time around it's a more subdued and subtle affair, just like the film it accompanies. Long-time ...
Desperate for a change? That's exactly how director Simon West felt. For the two principal aspects of his movie he felt it crucial to play a wild card. To combat flag-waving traditional scoring for the military, he asked Carter Burwell to blend his Fargo tragedy with his jazzy Conspiracy Theory. Sure enough, that's what you get in the score parts of the album. As of "Exercise In ...
Writing a soundtrack for Being John Malkovich couldn't have been an easy task for Carter Burwell. How many films so freely sneak between absurdity, fantasy and dark melancholy--often in the same scene? Thankfully, the film composer rose to the task. The music of Being John Malkovich varies from introspective simple piano solos to a snippet of Bartok, but mostly revolves around an ...