| Contents |
You can't go home again: David Shire on Return to Oz -- Suspicion breeds confidence: Michael Kamen on Brazil -- Unto the breach: Patrick Doyle on Henry V -- Backward prison gangs, Scandinavian hymns, "Danny Boy," and yodeling: Carter Burwell on the Coen Brothers -- Bait-and-switch: Elmer Bernstein on The Grifters -- A friend like me: Alan Menken on Howard Ashman and the rebirth of the film musical -- Sounds of Apocalypse: John Corigliano on Altered states -- Life in transformation: Philip Glass on Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi -- The driving force: Elia Cmiral on Ronin -- Steeping yourself in the culture: Carter Burwell on Rob Roy -- Mythmaker: Basil Poledouris on Conan the Barbarian -- Carnival of the animals: Mark Isham on Never Cry Wolf and Fly Away Home -- It's "The Francie Brady show": Elliot Goldenthal on The Butcher Boy -- Everything old is new again: Elmer Bernstein on reinventing Cape Fear -- Dream state: Jocelyn Pook on Eyes Wide Shut -- Like a duet: Patrick Doyle on Love's Labours :ost -- A reflection, like the moon on water: Philip Glass on Kundun -- Playing with paradoxes: Mychael Danna on The Sweet Hereafter -- Provenance: John Corigliano on The Red Violin -- I'll show thee wondrous things, that highly may advantage thee to hear: Elliot Goldenthal on Titus -- Lost and found: Robert Townson on Alex North, 2001, and the art of the soundtrack album. |
| Abstract |
This collection of interviews with Hollywood composers offers the most intimate look ever at the process of writing music for the movies. From getting started in the business to recording the soundtrack, from choosing a musical style to collaborating with directors, including Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, the Coen brothers, Terry Gilliam, Kenneth Branagh, and Ken Russell, from learning to deal with editing to writing with time-sensitive precision, the leading practitioners in the field share their views on one of the most important--and least understood--aspects of filmmaking: the motion picture art that's heard but not seen. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) and index. |
| LCCN | 00038285 |
| ISBN | 0380804824 |
