I’m heading out to catch my flight for Telluride in a bit, but I wanted to turn your attention to this before I take off. Rachel Portman hasn’t been in Oscar’s good graces for 10 years now, but she has a hell of an opportunity this year with a beautiful score for Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go.” The album hits stores September 14, but Portman’s compositions were made available on iTunes Monday. Beautiful, haunting melodies. A real home run of emotion. I imagine she’ll be back in the hunt this year.
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Looking forward to it. Her scores for The Cider House Rules and The Legend of Bagger Vance are among my favourites :)
I can’t say much about it right now, as it’s currently just music. The best music can leave its mark on you on its own. With this score, I feel like it’s somewhat irrelevant without the film to accompany it. It’s nice, but there’s just something missing to it.
eh, I would have preferred maybe something a little more….futuristic perhaps? Would have been a great opportunity for some Johnny Greenwood.
Very pretty, on it’s own. Looking forward to see how it plays out in the film…
Awesome. Looking forward to listening to this.
Does anybody know who’s singing the title song? Glad to see it’s there, it’s quite essential to story (at least in the book).