Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Clint Mansell: High-Rise (OST) By Brice Ezell / 9 May 2016 With the eerie soundtrack to High-Rise, Clint Mansell maintains his reputation for excellence in the world of film music.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Film/Music A Call for the Academy to Reconceptualize the Best Original Score Category By Brice Ezell / 17 February 2015 So long as the Academy clings to a myopic definition of what an "original" score is, too many deserving composers will be left out come Oscar night.
Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Film/Music A Healthy Dose of Darkness: The Best Film Scores of 2014 By Brice Ezell / 16 December 2014 The year 2014 saw classic composer/director teams hit new highs, as well as a considerable dark streak take over the world of film scoring.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Film/Music That Which Crawls Out of Speakers and Inches Along Your Nerves: Notable Film Scores of Early 2014 By Brice Ezell / 9 May 2014 From Biblical epics to run-of-the-mill rom-coms, Notes on Celluloid takes a look at (and listen to) some of the strongest film music of 2014 thus far.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Film/Music The Great Scores: ‘The Fountain’ and a Sonic Road to Awe By Brice Ezell / 5 December 2013
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