The best word to describe Restless truly is "quaint" - strange, peculiar, or unusual in a pleasing or amusing way. It can sometimes be a bit depressing, but Danny Elfman's score and Mia Wasikowska's unending charm brings some lightness to the otherwise heavy plot. I enjoyed it and found myself entertained and invested in the characters, at least the two leads. The performances aren't flawless and were a bit too reserved at times, but that didn't detract too much from the film and story overall. It may not have a lot of style, but it's the wonderful story at its heart that makes it such a great film. Van Sant seems to continue growing on me with every new film, and this is one that I know I won't soon be forgetting. Worth watching if you get the chance.
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Cirque du Soleil invites you to experience IRIS, a Journey Through the World of Cinema. This large-scale production - created exclusively for its permanent home at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles - offers a new take on the art of cinema as only Cirque du Soleil could imagine it. IRIS is an inventive spectacle that combines dance, acrobatics, projections, filmed sequences, animation and original music that will take audiences on a mesmerizing journey that blurs the lines between reality and illusion.
IRIS explores the different techniques of cinema, as it evolves from black and white to colour in a world of shadows and light. The story unfolds as our two young heroes venture through a universe that brings to life a succession of cinematic genres, reawakening the limitless potential of this art form. Join acclaimed choreographer/director Philippe Decouflé and Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman on this fantastic voyage, breathtakingly unfurled with 72 performers, 200 costumes, 8,300 square feet of performance floor, 174 loudspeakers, 603 lighting features, 20 video projectors and 160,000 watts of sound.
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The movie’s voice talent includes Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short and Catherine O’Hara. John August (Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride) is writing the screenplay. The project is the 14th collaboration between the composer and the director. The stop-motion animation film will be shot in black and white and rendered in 3D. While Elfman’s involvement was expected given his relationship with Burton, it has been confirmed by Elfman’s agency that the composer has officially joined the project. Frankenweenie is set for a release in digital 3D on October 5, 2012 by Walt Disney Pictures.
Elfman also has the sci-fi action Real Steel coming out this year. The movie directed by Shawn Levy is set in the near-future where 2,000-pound robots that look like humans do battle and stars Hugh Jackman, Kevin Durand, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie and Hope Davis. The Dreamworks production will be relased by Touchstone Pictures on October 7, 2011. Also coming up for Elfman is Gus van Sant’s Restless and Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men In Black III starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin for a summer 2012 release.
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Tanggal 2 Mei kemarin, situs Soundtrack Express me-review score The Next Three Days, berikut kutipannya:
The most striking thing is how little of it sounds like Elfman. Even outside of his most obvious mannerisms through the years, he has plenty of other musical fingerprints that give him away, but here I'd be hard pressed to identify the composer aside from on a couple of occasions. Indeed, the percussive suspense/action passages sound more like John Powell (perhaps a touch less percussion and more low key) than the tick-tick rhythms of Mission: Impossible.
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LA Times mem-publish artikel mengenai persiapan Cirque du Soleil untuk menampilkan Iris yang musiknya dibuat oleh Danny Elfman, berikut kutipannya:
"Iris," which is written and directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé, will showcase Cirque's signature acrobatics and aerial stunts. The production is inspired by the invention of cinema and will feature a love story between two fictional characters. The original music is by Danny Elfman, the film composer who has worked frequently with Tim Burton
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Scott Bettencourt merilis daftar tahunannya, berikut ini top 10-nya:
1. Hans Zimmer
2. Danny Elfman
3. Michael Giacchino
4. Alexandre Desplat
5. John Powell
6. James Newton Howard
7. James Horner
8. John Williams
9. Thomas Newman
10. Carter Burwell
Berikut kutipannya:
As fans of Danny Elfman and Tim Burton eagerly await the release of Warner Bros. Records' 15-disc "Music Box" compilation of their quarter-century collaboration (complete with DVD, book and working zoetrope), it might be a good time to ponder the enigma of their latest collaboration, the 3D film version of Alice in Wonderland (which might more accurately be termed Alice Through the Studio Development System), which is simultaneously one of the director's least respected films and his greatest box-office success. As always with Burton, the film's visuals were outstanding, winning Oscars for Art Direction and Costume Design, and Elfman's "Alice" theme was one of the most memorable movie melodies of the year. Many film music fans were distressed to learn that Elfman's score for the lavish Wolfman remake was to be rejected in favor of a new score by Paul Haslinger, but ultimately Elfman's score won out, and his brooding music was a fitting accompaniment for the gorgeously mounted but ultimately disappointing monster movie. Elfman took the assignment of scoring Paul Haggis's jailbreak thriller The Next Three Days after Haggis had a falling out with his usual composer, Mark Isham, and Elfman's edgy score was in a different sonic world than the orchestral Alice and Wolfman, but the film was a boxoffice disappointment. Upcoming are two typically varied projects, the futuristic drama Real Steel, an expansion of the classic Twilight Zone episode "Steel," and Gus Van Sant's youthful romance Restless.
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Danny Elfman mendapatkan Goldspirits Award untuk lagunya "Alice" dari Alice in Wonderland di kategori Best Original Song. Berikut kutipannya:
BEST OST
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
BEST COMPOSER
John Powell
BEST TERROR/THRILLER OST
La herencia Valdemar (Arnau Bataller)
BEST DRAMATIC OST
The Ghost Writer (Alexandre Desplat)
BEST ADVENTURE/ACTION OST
Iron Man 2 (John Debney)
BEST COMEDY OST
Leap Year (Randy Edelman)
BEST ANIMATION OST
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
BEST FANTASY/SCIENCE-FICTION OST
Inception (Hans Zimmer)
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Danny Elfman had a great year too, writing a lively and appealing score for Tim Burton’s re-imagining of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, channeling Wojciech Kilar for the ill-fated horror remake THE WOLFMAN, and adding an emotional core to the powerful Russell Crowe action-drama THE NEXT THREE DAYS.
Rounding out the top five is Danny Elfman’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND, which had an absolutely wonderful main theme that recalls the best Elfman work from the 1980s, superbly magical lyrics, and a great deal of powerful and potent action music in the score itself
Berikut beberapa kategorinya:
SCORE OF THE YEAR
JOHN POWELL for How To Train Your Dragon
DAFT PUNK for Tron: Legacy
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part I
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for The King’s Speech
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for The Last Airbender
COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
DANNY ELFMAN
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD
CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ
JOHN POWELL
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DO NOT DISTURB was the brainchild of Mali Elfman, who produced the movie with Maureen Flannigan (and is the daughter of composer Danny Elfman, who scored it along with Mike Einziger and Oliver Hecks). Each of the quintet of filmmakers was given a brief synopsis, eight rules to follow and just one day on set during which to shoot their contribution, and the results range from actor Eric Balfour’s dark drama “Duccio’s Madonna” to Petro Papahadjopoulos’ science-fiction opus “Rocketman” to Laura Henry’s teen romance “Prom” to Jon Mann-Krieger’s noir thriller “Intrinsic” to Brandon Nichols’ spooky entry “Death Takes a Holiday Inn” (pictured below), in which a maid (Diva Zappa) has a ghostly mess to clean up. Mali Elfman and Jason Alan Smith also appear in this story.
DO NOT DISTURB is being distributed by Gravitas Ventures and will be available May 1 via VOD, iTunes, Amazon VOD, Blockbuster, Cinema Now and numerous other services.
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I know you were working on one of Danny Elfman’s projects recently and he is one of the most ‘A’ level of ‘A’ level composers so I would assume he can get a fair amount of time.
He probably could, but the funny thing is, it doesn’t always happen as you would think. I worked on his “The Wolfman” score that he did for Universal and that was an interesting, as well as technically challenging project for me. Danny had already completed the score when it was decided that it needed more ‘energy’. I wasn’t involved with the movie at this point so I’m only repeating what was told to me by others who were involved at the time.
It was decided that a new, more contemporary sounding score should be done by a different composer, keeping in mind that Danny gave them exactly what they asked for. But then they (Universal) thought the new composer’s score might’ve gone too far the other way, and about 8 music editors later, a music editor that I know named Jay Duerr became involved and suggested they they use Danny’s original score and maybe add some additional percussion to it. He presented a temp to the producers that he put together using Danny’s cues, but Jay added some temp percussion and low drum elements of his own, just to get the idea across and that was enough for them to say “OK, well let’s try that.”
At that point I was brought in to add some active drum-percussion programming with an emphasis on big low drums. I also added a number of eerie FX here and there, as well as some sound design in a few spots. As I mentioned earlier, Danny did exactly what they wanted him to do in the beginning. Then they changed their minds and it went through a lot of evolutions. I should also mention that at the time I was brought in, Conrad Pope was also brought in to write new compositional material to bridge together the cues where basically the music editor took bits and pieces of Danny’s score and reworked new cues to accommodate more recent picture changes, whether the music was written for these scene or not. Jay did as he saw fit and Universal was happy with the final product which included additional music by Conrad Pope as well. Conrad, Jay Duerr and myself worked as a team. We spotted a lot of the movie together and I added my elements where they felt that they were needed throughout the score.
Because most of the final score was created from editing together various parts of Danny’s original score, the most challenging part of this project was that there was written music for me, no tempos, no meter maps, no anything so what I had to do first was take the picture and guide tracks that I requested and create a Pro Tools session for each reel. I normally try and get picture and guides if possible because I find it very helpful to actually see what’s happening on the screen as I come up with my sounds and parts. This was particularly a technical challenge because I had to go through and create tempo and meter maps, beat by beat in Pro Tools for each cue of the live orchestra tracks and it really got challenging where there were tempo changes. Not to mention that there were a lot of mixed meters as well. After that process was done, I just went through each reel and did my programming, cue by cue.
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Ada banyak situs yang melaporkan mengenai musik Mystic Manor dibuat oleh Danny Elfman, tapi kelihatannya forum Discussion Kingdom yang pertama, berikut kutipannya:
Three-time Academy-Award nominee Danny Elfman will be composing the music for the upcoming land Mystic Point at Hong Kong Disneyland. He'll also be composing the music for Hong Kong Disneyland's version of Haunted Mansion called "Mystic Manor". He claims he wants to keep the same type of feeling from other Haunted Mansions, but it'll be very different musically. He also claims that it's a great honor to be apart of something like this.
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Tanggal 28 Februari 2011, The Hollywood Reporter mem-publish artikel mengenai film yang mungkin akan dikembangkan oleh Tim Burton yang artinya musiknya akan dibuat oleh Danny Elfman. Berikut kutipannya:
Hunchback, an 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, tells the story of Quasimodo, a deformed and hunchbacked bell-ringer of the Norte Dame cathedral who tragically falls in love with beautiful gypsy named Esmerelda.
The book features Quasimodo fighting off troops, love and betrayal, a hanging, a swing off a belltower and bodies and graves galore; in short, stuff that seems tailor-made for Burton.
But the project, being spearheaded by Brolin, who would also produce as well as star, is in the nascent stages. Burton, who is in preproduction on Dark Shadows for Warners, is interested, but his commitment is dependent on the outcome of the script.
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Jauh lebih menarik penghargaan dari Filmtracks, berikut pemenang dan nominees untuk score 2010 terbaik, top composer 2010 dan 2010 best cues:
Top Film Scores:
Space Battleship Yamato (Naoki Sato)
Alice in Wonderland (Danny Elfman)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (David Arnold)
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
The Last Airbender (James Newton Howard)
Top Composers:
John Powell
Danny Elfman
Harry Gregson-Williams
James Newton Howard
Christopher Lennertz
Top Film Cues:
"Alice's Theme" Alice in Wonderland (Danny Elfman)
It's difficult to argue with the merit of "Alice's Theme" from Alice in Wonderland, a return to the spirit of vintage Danny Elfman and one of the catchiest soundtrack melodies to exist in years.
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“[Inception] composer, Hans Zimmer, who I’ve been battling at awards shows all year, told me, ‘In a lot of ways, I hope you win because it’s helped open up the field a bit for texture of what film scores can be,’ ” Reznor told reporters backstage. “I am truly stunned by this.David [Fincher] bugged us to do it. I’m very glad we did. It’s been the best experience I’ve ever had from start to finish.”
"Thankfully David had a very clear idea of what he wanted,” said Reznor. “The only immediate direction he gave us was that there be no orchestra, be similar to Bladerunner -- inhabit the same iconic quality -- but not sound dated. It was definitely difficult to score for a bunch of people talking in rooms. There were no landscapes, or battles scenes. It wasn’t obvious to us what shape it would have."
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The six nominees for Best Original Score –Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech), John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon), A.R. Rahman (127 Hours), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network) and Hans Zimmer (Inception) – were all in attendance, as were Best Original Song nominees Alan Menken and Glenn Slater (Tangled), and Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey (Country Strong).
In addition to the nominees, those present at the event included composers Neal Acree, Mark Adler, Bruce Broughton, Russell Brower, Charles Fox, Craig Stuart Garfinkle, Mark Kilian, Penka Kouneva, Michael McCuistion, Eimear Noone, Atli Orvarsson, Stu Phillips, Garry Schyman, Richard B. Sherman, Ryan Shore, and Pinar Toprak; legendary lyricist Hal David; industry veterans Jon Burlingame, Dan Goldwasser, Julie Kirgo, Leonard Maltin, Nick Redman, and Daniel Schweiger; film music agent Laura Engel of Kraft-Engel Management...
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Tanggal 24 Februari, International Film Music Critics Association telah mengumumkan para pemenangnya, berikut kutipannya:
The International Film Music Critics Association announces the winners of its seventh annual awards for excellence in musical scoring in 2010 with John Powell’s score for the animated film HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON topping the list, winning both Film Score of the Year and Best Score for an Animated Film. Alexandre Desplat receives three awards: Best Score for a Drama Film (THE KING’S SPEECH), Best Score for an Action/Adventure/Thriller Film (THE GHOST WRITER) and Composer of the Year.
FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR• HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, music by John Powell
FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR• ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
FILM MUSIC COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR• ALICE IN WONDERLAND – “Alice’s Theme” (Danny Elfman)
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Depending on your viewing habits, it’s quite possible that you’ve heard Danny Elfman’s work more often than any other composer. Not only has he scored more than 70 films (including all but two of Tim Burton’s and many of Sam Raimi’s), but he’s also the musical dynamo behind the iconic TV theme tunes of The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives. Away from the screen, Elfman created the music for Cirque du Soleil’s forthcoming LA show Iris and is developing a Broadway musical based on the life of escapologist supreme Harry Houdini with The Social Network uber-scribe Aaron Sorkin. We caught up with the amiable Californian on a recent flying visit to Hong Kong Disneyland, where Elfman is composing the score for one of the park’s new rides, the playfully spooky ‘Mystic Manor’, which is due to make its debut in early 2013.
This is the first time you’ve scored a theme park ride. What attracted you to the project?
Well, growing up as a young adult, going to Disneyland in LA, the Haunted Mansion was my favourite ride. So, being asked to participate in something like this, something that maybe our children, grandchildren might be part of – I love the idea of how long it could potentially be around. That even after I’m gone, there’ll still be generations enjoying this work. That to me is a great thing and an honour.
How do you keep your creativity?Well, [laughs] I don’t know. I hope that I do keep my creativity. I don’t have any magic formula. I was recently a juror at the Venice Film Festival. I’m having drinks with the president of the jury, who’s Quentin Tarantino, and we were discussing that problem, that dilemma of the terrifying feeling that every time you start a piece of work is like lowering a bucket into a well and you have no idea if you’re going to find water, because you don’t know if that well is ten feet deep or a mile. There’s no answer to that except keep lowering that bucket until you hear a splash.
Have you ever had a supernatural experience?I’ve tried and I’ve tried and I’ve tried. The director Guillermo Del Toro and myself, we even rented a haunted room in London that was sure to provide ghosts. And we took turns sitting in a room alone with the lights off as part of the dare, waiting for something to happen... and nothing did. I keep hoping though.
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Tanggal 17 Februari, situs BurtonElfman.com merilis video lagi kali ini mengenai DVD yang ada dalam Elfman & Burton Music Box. Berikut keterangannya:
THE DANNY ELFMAN & TIM BURTON 25TH ANNIVERSARY MUSIC BOX- "A CONVERSATION WITH DANNY ELFMAN & TIM BURTON"- THE DVD
The music box is available for preorder at: http://elfmanburton.com
Tim Burton, Danny Elfman and others involved in the its production offer a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of an hour-long documentary DVD included exclusively in THE DANNY ELFMAN & TIM BURTON 25TH ANNIVERSARY MUSIC BOX.
On September 12, 2010, legendary director Tim Burton and celebrated composer Danny Elfman sat down in the control room of London's renowned Air Lyndhurst Studios to discuss their 25-year collaboration. The results, an exclusive DVD— "A Conversation With Danny Elfman & Tim Burton" —provides a fascinating glimpse into the minds behind the movies and music as they discuss every film and score in their storied collaboration. From the fear and excitement of their first feature Pee-wee's Big Adventure, through the challenges of Batman, through the struggles and ultimate triumph of Alice In Wonderland, these two men reminisce about a partnership that has spanned a quarter century and redefined how we listen to movies.
With humor, candor, and insight, Burton and Elfman remember the creation of classics like Beetlejuice, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands. As an added bonus, the DVD also includes a featurette on the creation of the songs for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Tanggal 13 Februari yang lalu, pemenang Grammy Awards diumumkan, berikut ini pemenang dan nominees untuk kategori-kategori "Film, TV and other visual media":
81. Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
Crazy Heart
Glee: The Music, Volume 1
Tremé
True Blood - Volume 2
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
82. Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
Toy Story 3 - Randy Newman
Alice In Wonderland - Danny Elfman
Avatar - James Horner
Inception - Hans Zimmer
Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
83. Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
The Weary Kind (From Crazy Heart) - Ryan Bingham
Down In New Orleans (From The Princess And The Frog) - Randy Newman
I See You (From Avatar) - Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell & James Horner
Kiss Like Your Kiss (From True Blood) - Lucinda Williams
This City (From Tremé) - Steve Earle
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Tanggal 13 Februari yang lalu telah diumumkan para pemenang BAFTA Awards, berikut pemenang dan nominees untuk kategori musik film:
Original Music
Alexandre Desplat - The King's Speech
A. R. Rahman - 127 Hours
Danny Elfman - Alice in Wonderland
John Powell - How to Train Your Dragon
Hans Zimmer - Inception
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