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May 24th, 2013

Johnny Handsome | Ry Cooder

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In this 1989 revenge thriller from director Walter Hill, Mickey Rourke plays a disfigured petty crook who consents to an experimental plastic surgery in order to seek payback against the two former accomplices who sent him to jail.

The smooth, easy sounds of a slide guitar are usually a sure giveaway that the great Ry Cooder is somewhere in the house, but rarely has Cooder’s penchant for the breadth and rich diversity of American folk music been so forcefully and confidently on display as it is here. From blues (I Can’t Walk This Time) to Cajun (Clip Joint Rhumba, Greasy Oysters) to Southern rock (First Week at Work), Cooder paints Johnny’s world as an evocation of an all-American dream gone wrong, a soul unjustly crooked by fate and circumstance, solitude and sadness.

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May 21st, 2013

Summer Advertising Playlist 2013

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Summertime can mean everything from lazy beach time, to backyard barbecues to hardcore vacation adventures.

Although the music of summer can be all sweetness and light, we’ve found that there can also be those vibey, somewhat intensely engaging numbers that at the very least get that head bobbing at the steering wheel (just watch out for that traffic!). Our “Score Gurus” have put together a playlist that can sync with a wide range of summer projects and beyond.

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May 20th, 2013

Charlie Bartlett | Christophe Beck

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Anton Yelchin stars as Charlie in director John Poll’s offbeat 2007 youth comedy about a wealthy but eccentric teenager who successfully begins peddling his own psychiatric prescription drugs – along with psychiatric counseling – to classmates in an effort to become popular.

Charlie’s funky, jazzy, oddly hyper-neurotic view of his own place in the world is captured brilliantly by Emmy-winning Canadian composer Christophe Beck’s funky, jazzy interpretative score which cascades coolly through a vast array of jazz and rock arrangements that help chart not only Charlie’s manic instability, but his steady ascendance to drug-dispensing high school demigod. Whether the rock god guitar jam of “Selling DVDs,” the jamming jazz piano of “Jazz it Up” or the mellow blues-inspired meditation “Kip Overdoses,” Beck’s music always manages to keep up with Charlie’s ever-changing state of mind to capture the right tone for the right moment.

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May 17th, 2013

Saw V | Charlie Clouser

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Phenomenal horror franchise centered around the deranged crimes and copycat legacy of a killer who devises physical and psychological tests for his victims.

Composer Charlie Clouser — the former Nine Inch Nails member and remix specialist — proves himself a master of tension and momentum throughout the Saw series, increasing tempo and heart-rates with devilish facility. Propulsive strings, hefty beats, and bursts of industrial shredding feature prominently, along with artfully demonic echoes, electronic scratches, persistent electronic notes, and finessed off-kilter piano lines, and each Saw score is tethered to variations on the excellent main theme (aka “Hello Zepp”).

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May 16th, 2013

Married Life | Dickon Hinchliffe

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Adapted from John Bingham’s 1953 neo-noir novel “Five Roundabouts to Heaven,” this 2007 period drama from director Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On) stars Oscar-winner Chris Cooper as a married businessman whose affair with a younger woman (Rachel McAdams) unspools a tangled web of infidelity, deceit and treachery when he involves a close friend (Pierce Brosnan) in the proceedings. Patricia Clarkson and David Wenham round out the all-star cast.

A founding member of the British ‘90s era indie rock band Tindersticks, composer Dickon Hinchliffe (Last Chance Harvey, Winter’s Bone, Project Nim) consciously deviates from the expected array of noir-flavored period motifs to deliver a surprisingly modern, bracingly elegant score with just a hint of light jazz. Buttery smooth strings backed by soft percussion in “All We Do For Love” and the dreamy waltz-rhythm “Kay Arrives” provide an unexpectedly ethereal feel to the ‘40s era setting. Further musically underlining the notion that the film’s characters are engaged in a kind of perverse dance, another waltz, the aptly-named “Waltz,” features an almost hypnotic blend of strings and piano that build to a soaring, invigorating crescendo. The jazz motifs return in “Intuition Marriage” and, finally, with just a touch of noir in “Brutus is Dead,” along with “He Decides to Kill Her” and “Harry Calls Home,” the closest that Hinchliffe ever comes to showing his musical hand.

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May 15th, 2013

The Third Man | Anton Karas

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Carol Reed’s classic film noir – winner of the 1949 Cannes Film Festival — stars Joseph Cotton as an American novelist who arrives in post-WWII Vienna to take a job with his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to discover that Harry has apparently died under mysterious circumstances.

Boasting one of the most famous and unconventional film scores of all time, The Third Man stands as a classic example of a movie almost singlehandedly defined by its music, the work of Viennese zither master Anton Karas, a virtual unknown prior to the film’s release. From the spry, springy main title – a chart-topping hit in 1949 – to more romantic, melancholic tracks like “Anna Walks Away ” and an assortment of main title variations, Karas’ music acts as kind of wry dramatic counterpoint to the film’s dark, shadowy style – mischievous yet knowing, always a step ahead of the audience, at times beguiling, elsewhere taunting, but always cheerily, eerily dancing circles around its tangled web of secrets.

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May 14th, 2013

Meet Monica Velour | Andrew Hollander

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A throwback to ‘80s era teen fantasy fulfillment comedies like My Tutor, this 2010 writing/directing debut from Keith Bearden stars Kim Cattrall as a has-been ‘80s era porn star who forms an unlikely, unusual friendship with an awkward teenager (Dustin Ingram) who still fawningly sees her as the icon she once was.

Injecting an ample dose of sweet, nostalgic innocence in place of what could have been offputtingly prurient material, ace romantic comedy expert Andrew Hollander (Waitress, Sleepwalk With Me) rides an array of warmly peppy folk music arrangements to generate not only empathy for the film’s characters, but to buffet audiences from being overly put off by the story’s darker edges. The genteel nature of “Tobe Washes Truck,” the charming eccentricity of “Finding Monica,” the lazy folksiness of “Monica at School” all speak to a unified musical charm offensive – piano, guitar, drums, strings – as soothing as an old west saloon band.

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May 13th, 2013

Before the Rains | Mark Kilian

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Adapted from the “Red Roofs” segment of the 2001 Israeli anthology film Yellow Asphalt, this pastoral English-language debut from The Terrorist director Santosh Sivan centers on an affair between an Englishman and his Indian maid set against the backdrop of the fading British Raj of the 1930s.

Born in South Africa and educated in the United States, composer Mark Kilian’s hallmark fusion of sweeping, classical orchestrations with traditional instrumentation fosters a wide array of memorable themes befitting the film’s Merchant Ivory moniker. At times brusquely romantic, elsewhere urgently percussive, it’s a score that bravely captures the unbridled passion of the story’s star-crossed lovers as well as the sweep and majesty of Imperial India.

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May 9th, 2013

7 soles | Rosino Serrano

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Based on real-life testimonies, Mexican director Pedro Ultreras’ debut film centers on the harrowing ordeal faced by a group of undocumented migrants as they attempt to cross the Arizona desert.

Befitting the story’s border setting and cultural cross-currents, Spanish born- and American-educated composer Rosino Serrano (best known for his score for El Crimen del Padre Amaro) taps his own wealth of musical influences, blending the traditional rhythms of his native Spain with Mexican folk, American Jazz, and blues. It’s a vast and diverse score that ranges from sparse, introspective personal themes featuring bells, harmonica, guitar, and woodwind to rich, romantic orchestrations like “Negro Y Encue.”

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May 8th, 2013

Zaytoun | Cyril Morin

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Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis directed this 2012 drama, starring Stephen Dorff, about an unlikely partnership between an Israeli fighter pilot and a young Palestinian refugee.

Cyril Morin’s score plays to the tragedy of the story, and the searing separation and loss that pervades it. An elegy for high, solo piano and soft strings is introduced in “Father’s Death,” and reemerges in “At the Border” and “Goodbye.” Strummed oud and ethnic violins bowed on their fringes carry the characters through Lebanon (“Between Two Worlds,” “Handcuff”), with more urgent, predatory percussion joining indigenous instrumentation for moments of pursuit (“Streets of Beirut,” “Hounded”).

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