Music Composed by Alexandre Desplat
Rating: **** 1/2
It can’t be an easy thing to write the most-anticipated score of the year. Alexandre Desplat’s ascent in the American film-scoring scene over the last few years has largely featured him as a composer for dramatic features, a genre not known for the dynamism of its underscore. Despite this, [...]
Music Composed by Mark Isham
Rating: ****
A woman is found brutally murdered in Los Angeles, her death the catalyst for the collapse of a number of lives peripheral to the slaying, including both the investigating cops and their paramours. Brian DePalma’s adaptation of James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia is surely the most frustrating film of 2006, [...]
Music Composed by James Horner
Rating: *** 1/2
An artistic ‘voice’ is a strange thing. Young artists often struggle, feeling the lack of a consistent unifying aesthetic to their art. Their audiences are often invigorated – here is something new, something that escapes the all-too-familiar approaches to representation. And then often it happens that slowly, surely, the [...]
