CROCODILE DUNDEE IN L.A. reunited composer Basil Poledouris with director Simon Wincer, for whom Poledouris wrote one of his most profound and eloquent scores, 1988’s LONESOME DOVE. The director and composer collaborated on another Western, the Tom Selleck vehicle, QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, as well as HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN and FREE WILLY. The…
While he has been actively involved in music since the 1970s, it’s only been since his involvement in Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO + JULIET in 1996 that Scottish composer Craig Armstrong entered the world of film music, and soon began to gain a degree of personal notoriety as a composer. His atmospheric orchestral music for THE…
Danny Elfman’s long-running collaboration with director Tim Burton continues with the director’s stylistic take on PLANET OF THE APES, which opened late July. A consistent percussive rhythm holds much of Elfman’s tempestuous score together, with bursts of horns and winds heightening the fast tempo. Elfman’s action music is terrifically dissonant, but without ranging out of…
David Arnold’s latest score, for the Ben Stiller comedy ZOOLANDER, may seem to be a departure from the composer of TOMORROW NEVER DIES, INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA (well, O.K., maybe not so much with GODZILLA!), but the composer, eager to shed his big-budget-spectacular-action-film image, enjoyed the very different challenges of scoring this comedy. Okay, you’ve done…
One of the season’s most entertaining films - and one that may hold a special place for STAR TREK fans - is GALAXY QUEST. This lavish story about the cast of a fictional science fiction TV series, a la STAR TREK, who are mistaken for real space heroes by a group of aliens seeking help…
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