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Jan 22, 2020 · 4. Revolutionary Road (2009) It was back to suburbia for Newman and Mendes with this adaptation of Richard Yates' novel. However, whereas American Beauty mixed laughs and despair, Revolutionary Road is almost entirely comprised of the latter, looking at how a young couple's attempts to rail against convention lead to disaster.
Oct 2, 2008 · Mendes, who worked with Newman on the Oscar-nominated gangster epic 'Road to Perdition,' had many memories of their time together, some funny, some inspirational, all moving.
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Sep 28, 2008 · There’s Preminger, Robert Wise, Michael Curtiz, Hitchcock and Huston; Altman and George Roy Hill; Scorsese, the Coens and Sam Mendes. Newman did his last on screen work for Mendes, playing a ...
Newman had a good working relationship with the film's director Sam Mendes. Mendes has kept hiring Thomas as the composer for most of his films. The main exception being the comedy-drama film "Away We Go" (2009), which did not have a film score.
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- Steven Spielberg and John Williams
- Tim Burton and Danny Elfman
- Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer
- Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood
- Wes Anderson and Alexandre Desplat
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Steven Spielberg and John Williams’ working relationship spans more than 40 years and over 30 films. Williams is responsible for some of the most iconic movies of all time, and his partnership with Spielberg encompasses masterpieces such as Jaws, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and E.T. It is clearly a winning combination as well, as...
Where there is Tim Burton, there is invariably always Danny Elfman, and the two have been creating musical magic together since 1985’s Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. There is a playful quirkiness to Elfman’s scores that perfectly suits Burton’s dark fairytales, and their partnership has brought us memorable scores for movies such as Edward Scissorhands, ...
Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer have so far worked on six films together. This includes Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and Dunkirk. Both Inception and Dunkirk have pulse-racingly tense music to accompany the equally exciting action sequences, and the epic, organ-laden score for Interstellar perfectly matches the grandeur of ...
Director Paul Thomas Anderson and composer Jonny Greenwood are already building a reputation for some winning collaborations. Also the lead guitarist for Radiohead, Greenwood has composed four scores for Anderson: There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread. The first three scores on that list were overlooked at the Oscars, bu...
The quirky aesthetic of a Wes Anderson film is unmistakeable, but let’s also credit composer Alexandre Desplat. From 2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox onwards, Desplat has provided the soundtrack to all of Anderson’s films, also including Moonrise Kingdom, the Oscar-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle of Dogs. With Desplat on the scoring stage, you’re ...
Last but by no means least is the iconic pairing of director Sam Mendes and composer Thomas Newman, who reunite for eagerly anticipated war movie 1917. Their previous credits: American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, and Bond movies Skyfall and Spectre. Of these, American Beauty, Road to Perdition and Skyfall all picked up O...
Nov 24, 2023 · Before meeting Sam Mendes at the memorabilia-strewn office of his production company Neal Street in Covent Garden, I email him a cutting of our last interview, 31 years ago, in GQ. It shows him on ...
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Sep 13, 2002 · But few characters have been so at odds with his perceived good guy image as the gun-toting mob enforcer he plays in Sam Mendes ... of good and evil, and the relationship ... Paul Newman. End ...
