Marvin Hamlisch's "The Informant!", the film score of the year.
Because few people pay close attention to film composers, they can pretty much say whatever the hell they think on the rare occasions someone thinks to interview them. As a result, "Where The Wild Things Are" composer Carter Burwell provides as much concrete information on the film's studio-meeting turmoil as anyone on record yet in an interview in Moving Image Source. In 4,000+ dense, fascinating words, the plainspoken Burwell opens up. A man I always thought of as a provider of ready-made, generically plaintive music (is there anything more basic than the "Being John Malkovich" theme?), but the man himself is perfectly aware of his role as studio hand-holder. When Warner Bros. wasn't comfortable having Karen O score everything, Burwell got brought in: "It was just a comfort thing for Warner Bros. to know that there was going to be some composer who would handle that job on that scene,"...
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