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“I love you, Dexter, I just don’t like you anymore,” a radiantly moist-eyed Anne Hathaway tells a radiantly plastered Jim Sturgess at a crucial emotional juncture in “One Day,” Lone Scherfig’s attractive, involving and curiously unmoving attempt to replicate the cosy, literate-but-not-too-literary British comforts of her 2009 “An Education.” Cribbed by screenwriter David Nicholls from […]
REVIEW: “One Day” (***)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:41 pm · August 19th, 2011
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Original Score — Volume II
Posted by gerardkennedy · 12:35 pm · November 12th, 2010
A great score can take a film from memorable to unforgettable. Whether it be Vangelis’s synthesizer on the beach in “Chariots of Fire,” Nino Rota’s haunting waltz from “The Godfather” or John Williams’s blaring, adventurous march from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” scores can elevate amazing images to bring the director’s vision to even greater […]
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Portman and Giacchino: too many notes?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:55 pm · October 15th, 2010
“It’s quality work. There are simply too many notes,” says the Emperor Joseph II to an incredulous Mozart in Milos Forman’s 1984 Oscar-guzzler “Amadeus.” It’s a delicious critique, and it’s one I’ve found myself remembering a lot over the past few weeks of London Film Festival viewing, during which I seem have jotted down the […]
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THE LONG SHOT: What becomes of the broken-hearted?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:19 pm · October 14th, 2010
(A day later than usual — apologies.) After the London Film Festival raised its curtain last night with a typically flashy European premiere for Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go,” this morning’s papers and breakfast TV reports have been busy with chatter about what Britfilm’s two it-girls, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, were wearing; how […]
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TELLURIDE: ‘Never Let Me Go,’ ‘Tabloid’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:16 am · September 4th, 2010
On the first day of this year’s fest, things are off to an interesting, up and down start. I would bore you with an intro, but it’s late and I’m fading. Let’s get to the reactions… “Never Let Me Go” (**) I went back and read Guy’s summation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me […]
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Rachel Portman’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ score available
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:01 am · September 2nd, 2010
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 […]
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Original Score — Volume I
Posted by gerardkennedy · 4:31 pm · August 19th, 2010
I am marveled by the accomplishments of all the crafts artists who elevate our films, but this is particularly the case with respect to music composers. Composing equals genius as far as I am concerned.These musicians join the film at the end, when usually only the director, editor and perhaps the sound mixers are still […]
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