Sabtu, Desember 14, 2013

41ST ANNUAL ANNIE AWARDS

Annie Awards, yaitu penghargaan untuk film-film animasi, telah mengumumkan nominasi-nominasinya, berikut untuk kategori musik film:

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, MUSIC IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE PRODUCTION
Alan Silvestri - The Croods
Henry Jackman - Turbo
Mark Mothersbaugh - Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
Heitor Pereira, Pharrell Williams - Despicable Me 2
Danny Elfman - Epic
Randy Newman - Monsters University
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck - Frozen
Dominic Lewis - Free Birds

Pengumuman pemenang akan dilakukan tanggal 1 Februari 2014. Baca nominasi lengkapnya di sini.

American Hustle

Studio: Annapurna Pictures, Columbia Pictures (distributor)
Sutradara: David O. Russell
Composer: Danny Elfman
Tanggal rilis film: 13 Desember 2013
Tanggal rilis album: 6 Desember 2013 (song album)
Label: Legacy Recordings

Track list:
1. Jeep’s Blues – Duke Ellington
2. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Album Version) – Elton John
3. White Rabbit (Arabic Version) – Mayssa Karaa
4. 10538 Overture – Jeff Lynne
5. Live and Let Die – Wings
6. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart – The Bee Gees
7. I Feel Love – Donna Summer
8. Don’t Leave Me This Way – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
9. Delilah – Tom Jones
10. I’ve Got Your Number – Jack Jones
11. Long Black Road – Jeff Lynne
12. A Horse with No Name (Album Version) – America
13. Stream of Stars – Jeff Lynne
14. Live to Live – Chris Stills
15. Irving Montage – Danny Elfman

Album ini adalah song album dan hanya berisi satu score track dari Danny Elfman sepanjang 1:55 menit. Belum ada kabar mengenai rilis dari score album-nya. Albumnya sudah bisa dibeli di iTunes sejak beberapa hari yang lalu, cek di sini.

Minggu, Desember 08, 2013

Restless

Tanggal 7 Desember kemarin, Movie Wave me-review Restless, berikut kutipannya:
While it’s a relatively simple score – mostly played by a small ensemble, often featuring guitars and little else, sometimes a piano, sometimes xylophone or marimba – it must have been tricky to find the right tone, avoiding maudlin sentiment, avoiding Hollywood romance. The composer pulls it off expertly – it doesn’t just avoid those things, it avoids taking an overly stylised “quirky” sound, which is often what happens when a film composer tries to be clever on a film like this.
The bulk of the music is made up of very pleasant, very attractive melodies. There is whimsy, certainly, but never excessively. And there are quirky touches, for sure – it’s hard not to think of Thomas Newman (and specifically Six Feet Under) at times. But this is music that is full of, of all things, life. It’s full of the excitement of young people growing up, coming of age. The instrumental choices make the music always feel close to the heart, the homely instruments providing an instant connection between audience and characters. A couple of cues have a full string section, but even in them there’s no excessive sentiment. Only briefly, towards the end of the score, does the music take a slightly darker turn – and it still resolves to something lighter. Restless is clearly not a major score in Elfman’s career, but despite being one of his most low key it’s actually one of his loveliest.
Baca lengkapnya di sini.