After what seems like years of speculation and delays, Paul Thomas Anderson is in post-production on The Master, his film that is either a lot or a little inspired by the life and work of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The movie stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as the title character, with Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Laura Dern and many more appearing as well.
And now it seems that Anderson has turned to Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood to score the film, just as he did with There Will Be Blood. Read More »
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Posted on Saturday, October 15th, 2011 by Angie Han
Briefly: It’s taken some time, but American audiences will finally get their chance to see Tran Anh Hung‘s nostalgic romance Norwegian Wood. We first wrote about the project way back in 2009, and the finished film hit the festival circuit to positive reviews in fall 2010. But for whatever reason, the movie never quite made it to our shores.
Thompson on Hollywood now writes that Soda Pictures and Red Flag Releasing will team up to give the film a U.S. release at long last, with a theatrical run planned for January 2012. A VOD release will then follow in the spring, with DVDs planned to hit stores in mid-2012.
Based on an extremely popular 1987 novel by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood unfolds against the backdrop of the student protests in late ’60s Tokyo. College student Toru (Kenichi Matsuyama, Death Note) first falls in love with the beautiful, fragile Naoko (Kikuchi), then meets the lively Midori (Kiko Mizuhara). Hung’s film also boasts a soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood, who previously scored There Will Be Blood.
Check out the trailer, which we first posted back in February, after the jump.
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The name Lynne Ramsay may not ring any bells right now, but the talent she’s been surrounding herself with for her next project indicates that this could change very soon. Ramsay wrote and is currently in the midst of directing We Need To Talk About Kevin, based on the novel by Lionel Shriver about a troubled husband and wife dealing with the fact that their son perpetrated a murderous school shooting. Tilda Swinton has been on board since the beginning, and John C. Reilly later joined as well.
If that casting wasn’t enough to entice you, perhaps this will do the trick. Radiohead member Jonny Greenwood will be composing the score to the picture, making this his first English feature film score since Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Learn more after the break. Read More »
“Damn.”
Let’s hope this isn’t a sign of things to come in regards to the Academy Awards for Paul Thomas Anderson‘s There Will Be Blood: Jonny Greenwood‘s feted instrumental soundtrack for the film, seen as a shoe-in for Best Original Score, has been officially disqualified. The reason? The score contains preexisting music. Red Carpet District reports that Greenwood’s score contains “35 minutes of original recordings and roughly 46 minutes of pre-existing work (including selections from the works of Arvo Pärt, as well as pieces in the public domain, such as Johannes Brahms’ “Concerto in D Major”). Peripheral augmentation to the score included sporadic but minimal useage (15 minutes) of the artist’s 2006 composition “Popcorn Superhet Receiver.”
While I downloaded the soundtrack and admire it, I admit that the above details regarding source material eluded me. Rules are rules; even though I’m sure some die-hard Radiohead and PTA fans can’t be talked into coming down from their anger trees right now. What’s more surprising is the supreme suddenness of the Academy’s announcement, with Greenwood learning the decision via an official letter on January 17th, and the studio, Paramount Vantage, two days later. In comparison, Paramount Vantage says they learned that the soundtrack for their Into the Wild was also ineligible (due to predominant use of songs) much further in advance. And it sounds as if the studio would have appealed the TWBB decision if they had the proper time.
Right when the impossibly important category starts to attract the attention and interest of a younger demographic, poof! Maybe it’s time to reinstate the “Adaptation and Song Scores” category, which has been off the ballots since 1984?
   Source Link: Variety /LAT
If you’ve read any reviews for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, than you’ve heard about Jonny Greenwood’s incredible score. Music enthusiasts know Greenwood as z multi-instrumentalist and lead guitarist for Radiohead. Greenwood’s Blood score is everything you might expect it to be. I’m sure the Academy will at least award Greenwood with a nomination.
Listen to two of the tracks right now below thanks to The Playlist.
Update: Nonesuch Radio has also added two more tracks, Future Markets and Open Spaces, Listen to those now at the provided link.
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