Ben Croll
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Lukas Dhont, Valentin Hadjadj Discuss ‘Coward’ Score, and Edward Berger, Volker Bertelmann Talk About Music for ‘The Riders,’ Starring Brad Pitt (opens the original)
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Partnership is the guiding motif of the World Soundtrack Awards’ Film Music Days, where live performances will give cult films bold new scores and industry mixers encourage emerging composers and filmmakers to find their creative match. To show what such pairings can achieve, two WSA talks will spotlight some of contemporary European cinema’s most enduring and endearing director-composer duos. Composer Valentin Hadjadj and director Lukas Dhont met as students, an early start that has grown into
Composers of ‘The Chronology of Water,’ ‘Sirat’ Among World Soundtrack Awards’ Discovery Nominees (opens the original)
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The World Soundtrack Awards‘ Discovery of the Year prize has a knack for spotting emerging talent. Gustavo Santaolalla (“21 Grams”), Michael Giacchino (“The Incredibles”) and Nicholas Britell (“Moonlight”) all won it before reshaping the modern film score, and recent winners Daniel Blumberg (“The Brutalist”) and Jerskin Fendrix (“Poor Things”) look set to follow. Mari Fukuhara (“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”) Mari Fukuhara started piano at three, before studying classical music at Toho
Composers, Filmmakers Sync Up at World Soundtrack Awards’ Film Music Days (opens the original)
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Now nearing its 26th edition, the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent have made the Belgian city film scoring’s home base. That story began in the 1980s, when Film Fest Ghent adopted screen music as its calling card, a focus that led to the World Soundtrack Academy and Awards at the turn of the millennium. The World Soundtrack Awards has since become a major showcase and industry hub, running largely in parallel with its parent festival. “We’re expecting much more integration and interaction betwee
Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst Celebrate 20 Years of ‘Marie Antoinette’ With Reality-Bending Versailles Exhibition (opens the original)
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“Marie Antoinette” is back in Versailles. To mark the 20th anniversary of her 2006 film, director Sofia Coppola has partnered with the Château de Versailles on an unusual exhibition of props, costumes and behind-the-scenes materials, staged in the palace the real queen called home. “It’s like Christmas for me,” Coppola says ahead of the exhibition’s opening. “You think of a museum as very serious, and [the curators] have brought some rock and roll to it.” The filmmaker also drew an A-list crowd
Andy Serkis Unleashes Imagination with Venice Immersive Breakout ‘Nevatars’ (opens the original)
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'Nevatars' is one of two projects at Venice Immersive showcasing Google's XREAL Aura smart glasses Premiering out of Venice Immersive, “Nevatars” has long been a passion project for director Andy Serkis. It took root when Serkis and partner Jonathan Cavendish co-founded The Imaginarium, a production studio built on Serkis’ deep expertise in performance capture. They had the hardware, the knowledge — and, it turns out, had been sitting on the story all along. “The idea came from experience,” Serk
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