The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Posted on Dec 11, 2008 | 0 comments
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I happened to catch the first 15 minutes or so of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three on TCM last night — one of several films I probably shouldn’t have been allowed to watch as a kid in the ’70s. It’s a great edge-of-your-seat movie, though, as promised by David Shire’s music for the opening titles. A little badass funk, a little...

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North By Northwest

Posted on Aug 8, 2006 | 1 comment
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North By Northwest

As long as I’m kvelling about other bloggers, today I notice that Fredösphere shares my enthusiasm for Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, both the film and the score. Fred’s comparison with Philip Glass is valid, and that opening montage is a great combination of music and image. I first encountered that “Overture” when I...

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Hans Zimmer, Fibonacci and Drama

Posted on May 21, 2006 | 0 comments
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In today’s San Francisco Chronicle there’s a little profile of Hollywood film composer Hans Zimmer. It looks like I’ve never seen any of the film he’s scored so far: “Gladiator”, “Batman Begins”, “The Last Samurai”, “The Thin Red Line”…. shrug. So, I have no opinion of him one way or...

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New Release: Shakespeare's Merchant

Posted on Feb 24, 2006 | 0 comments
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New Release: Shakespeare's Merchant

In 2004 I wrote the score for Shakespeare’s Merchant, an independent film adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The film is still making its way through the process of festival submissions, etc., but I’m so proud of the score that I’ve taken it upon myself to arrange for it to be released on CD. It’s a short movie...

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A Lovely Ringtone

Posted on Oct 2, 2005 | 2 comments
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I thought I’d share something weird. Although I’m a little old to be horsing around with mobile phone ringtones, last year I did just that. Just for the heck of it, I took a tiny excerpt from a film score I’d recently finished, and created a ringtone out of it. I suppose I just wanted to see if I could do it. Turns out it’s a simple...

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