03-05-2019, 07:17 AM
Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016)
A Documentary about the process of creating traditional Hollywood orchestral film music. I think Ennio Morricone is the only composer of foreign films mentioned (very briefly) and the existence of synthesizer scores is only acknowledged in a token line or too. That's fair enough but it would have been less distracting to just say that's what the film was focusing on up front. Even so, this is still a very pleasurable way to spend time with so many talented film composers (more than 60) and hear their own unique perspectives on the art form.
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Guillermo del Toro's 3rd film is a ghost story set in a remote orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. It's more grounded and earthy than his other films but it's probably closest to his later 'Crimson Peak' in tone and subject. There were many moments of wincing violence that made me jump and the idea of foetus-flavoured rum was something that really creeped me out. The film is full of Christian symbolism, baptism, stigmata, resurrection, as well as being a metaphor for the war.
A Documentary about the process of creating traditional Hollywood orchestral film music. I think Ennio Morricone is the only composer of foreign films mentioned (very briefly) and the existence of synthesizer scores is only acknowledged in a token line or too. That's fair enough but it would have been less distracting to just say that's what the film was focusing on up front. Even so, this is still a very pleasurable way to spend time with so many talented film composers (more than 60) and hear their own unique perspectives on the art form.
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Guillermo del Toro's 3rd film is a ghost story set in a remote orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. It's more grounded and earthy than his other films but it's probably closest to his later 'Crimson Peak' in tone and subject. There were many moments of wincing violence that made me jump and the idea of foetus-flavoured rum was something that really creeped me out. The film is full of Christian symbolism, baptism, stigmata, resurrection, as well as being a metaphor for the war.
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