Category: On The Score

Audio: On the Score with Gustavo Santaolalla

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA, who ventures into a magically undead Latin American realm for “The Book of Life”

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Audio: On the Score with Tyler Bates

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer TYLER BATES, who brings his own sci-fi score mix tape to create the seriously fun sound of space adventure that bonds Marvel’s quirky Guardians of the Galaxy

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Audio: On the Score with John Ottman

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer JOHN OTTMAN, who returns to the editing, and scoring team of the X-Men for the musical mutant Armageddon of “Days of Future Past”

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Audio: On the Score with Clint Mansell

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer CLINT MANSELL, whose biblical score conjures the wrath, and deliverance of God for NOAH

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Audio: On the Score with Brian Reitzell and David Slade

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews HANNIBAL composer BRIAN REITZELL and executive producer and director DAVID SLADE, a nightmare team born from vampires that now takes the world’s most famous psychiatrist-cum-serial killer to new realms of network TV nightmarishness

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Audio: On the Score with Rolfe Kent

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer ROLFE KENT, who celebrates LABOR DAY by finding a uniquely dramatic sound within a captive household

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Audio: On the Score with Steve Jablonsky

A musical master of wanton alien destruction powerfully shows that war has no easy moves with “Ender’s Game”

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Audio: On the Score with Abel Korzeniowski

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer ABEL KORZENIOWSKI on his soaringly symphonic visits to Verona and a seditious Magic Kingdom in ROMEO AND JULIET and ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW

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Audio: On the Score with Ryan Amon

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer RYAN AMON, whose powerful score takes us off world to ELYSIUM

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Audio: On the Score with Ramin Djawadi

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer RAMIN DJAWADI, who music not only slays those seeking a seat on the GAME OF THRONES, but also the gigantic monsters emerging from the PACIFIC RIM

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Audio: On the Score with Brian Tyler

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer BRIAN TYLER, who blasts off into comic book action with his first superhero score for IRON MAN 3

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Audio: On the Score with Mark Isham

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer MARK ISHAM, who hits another inspirational sports score home run for Jackie Robinson with 42

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Audio: On the Score with Cliff Martinez

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer CLIFF MARTINEZ, who reflects on playing the sins of the flesh for the SPRING BREAKERS before going on the run from the crimes of the past in THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

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Audio: On the Score with Bear McCreary

Daniel Schweiger interviews composer BEAR McCREARY, who’s takes genre TV scoring by storm for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD & CHROME, THE WALKING DEAD and upcoming series scores for DA VINCI’S DEMONS and DEFIANCE

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Audio: On the Score with Alexandre Desplat

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer ALEXANDRE DESPLAT on another prolific year of film scoring, from the holiday action cheer of RISE OF THE GUARDIANS to the realistic suspense of ARGO and 0ZERO DARK THIRTY

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Audio: On the Score with Mychael Danna

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer MYCHAEL DANNA on finding a bigger musical boat with director Ang Lee for LIFE OF PI

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Audio: On the Score with Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil and Tom Tykwer

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews CLOUD ATLAS’s Pale 3 composers JOHNNY KLIMEK, REINHOLD HEIL and TOM TYKWER on a score that spans past, present and future

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Audio: On the Score with Nathan and Rian Johnson

Daniel Schweiger interviews the composer-director team of cousins NATHAN and RIAN JOHNSON, who go back to the killer future with LOOPER

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Audio: On the Score with Tyler Bates and William Friedkin

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer TYLER BATES and director WILLIAM FRIEDKIN on their unconventional collaboration for the Southern fried rampage of KILLER JOE

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Audio: On the Score with Marc Streitenfeld

Daniel Schweiger interviews Marc Streitenfeld on how he’s given the musical world of “Alien” fearsomely innovative new form with “Prometheus”

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Audio: On the Score with Gareth Evans, Mike Shinoda and Joseph Trapanese

Daniel Schweiger interviews Gareth Evans, Mike Shinoda and Joseph Trapanese- the filmmaker and composers who give the beat down for “The Raid- Redemption.”

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Audio: On the Score with Cliff Eidelman and Ken Kwapis

Daniel Schweiger interviews Cliff Eidelman and Ken Kwapis, whose ongoing composer-director collaboration now teams for a whale of a tale as they create a musical “Big Miracle.”

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Audio: On The Score with Michael Giacchino

Daniel Schweiger interviews composer Michael Giacchino, who joins the Impossible Mission Force’s scoring assignment once again with “Ghost Protocol”

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Audio: Trevor Morris

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer Trevor Morris, who fights for man and the “Immortals”

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Audio: Danny Elfman

Daniel Schweiger interviews composer DANNY ELFMAN, whose gets to step under the movie big top for Cirque du Soleil’s IRIS.

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Audio: On The Score With Cliff Martinez

Daniel Schweiger interviews CLIFF MARTINEZ, whose music takes the violently existential road of DRIVE before virulently wiping out humanity with CONTAGION

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Audio: On The Score With Tyler Bates

Daniel Schweiger interviews composer TYLER BATES, who takes up the sword again with CONAN before trekking for peace in THE WAY

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Audio: On The Score With Steve Jablonsky

Daniel Schweiger interviews STEVE JABLONSKY, who shifts into new, epically dangerous gear with TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

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Audio: On The Score With Henry Jackman

Daniel Schweiger interviews composer HENRY JACKMAN, who graduates from the superhero scoring of KICK ASS to X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.

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Audio: On The Score With Hans Zimmer

Daniel Schweiger interviews composer HANS ZIMMER, who talks about his return to the summer double-threats of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and KUNG FU PANDA

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