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1. Basil Poledouris: A Man and His Music

Film composer Basil Poledouris unfolded a tapestry of musical styles in over 55 television and motion picture scores. When you have a wide palette of styles and ideas that can fit almost...

Thursday, 02 July 2009 | 352 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

2. Emilio Estevez on Working with Basil Poledouris

ve been a fan of his work for years and I was thinking, with a movie with a total budget of 4.2 million dollars, the chances of getting someone like Basil, who does enormous orchestral scores, was slim to none.

Sunday, 20 December 2009 | 359 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

3. John Milius on Working with Basil Poledouris

All of my films except THE WIND AND THE LION and DILLINGER because they wouldn’t let him then. And the one I just finished, THE ROUGH RIDERS, he didn’t score because Verhoeven wouldn’t let him.

Sunday, 20 December 2009 | 434 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

4. Paul Verhoeven on Working with Basil Poledouris

I met Basil around ‘84 when I was doing FLESH AND BLOOD for Orion. We were looking for a composer and Mike Medavoy, head of production at Orion, mentioned him together with Horner and Goldsmith.

Sunday, 20 December 2009 | 241 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

5. Randall Kleiser on Working with Basil Poledouris

Basil was a classmate of mine at the D.S.C. film school. We were both studying directing and were working on each other’s films as crew members.

Sunday, 20 December 2009 | 279 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report