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Blood Simple was the first feature starring Joel Coen’s soon-to-become wife, Frances McDormand; the first scored by Carter Burwell, who’s collaborated — often, as here, magnificently — with the Coens on all their subsequent scores; and the first shot by cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who also worked on the Coens’ next two films before embarking on his own directorial career...
Carter Burwell's Notes. The milieu of this film is a Jewish community in the Midwestern United States in the 1960s. Every attempt to incorporate these elements (Judaism, the Midwest, the 60s) into the score was unsuccessful.
Carter Burwell's elegiac theme music can still bring an involuntary tear to my eye. This Pavlovian response became a tad inconvenient a few years later, when the theme turned up in a Caffrey's beer commercial."
Composed by Carter Burwell Orchestrated and conducted by Sonny Kompanek Music Editor: Todd Kasow Music Scoring Mixer: Mike Farrow Recorded at the Sony Scoring Stage, Los Angeles, and Hit Factory, New York City. Starring Nicholas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, Isaac Hayes, Stanley Tucci, Seymour Cassel
Jun 28, 2024 · A film composer whose ingenuity is matched by his versatility, Carter Burwell played in New York post-punk bands before finding success creating scores for some of Hollywood’s most revered filmmakers, including Spike Jonze and Todd Haynes.
"Carter Burwell’s score is a delight, sometimes tuning cheekily into the hotel’s own muzak, but in other places underlining the poignancy that is at the heart of a film which, more than Kaufman’s previous work, seems to trade chords with Wes Anderson in his more humanistic, least whimsical moments." - Lee Marshall, Screen Daily, Sept.5, 2015.
"Carter Burwell delivers a score that, while not the best he would write for the Coens—that would wait for one more film—remains his most wildly inventive, a giddy mishmash of banjo, organ, whistling, and yodeling that plays like the mutant offspring of Marvin Hamlisch and Ennio Morricone."
