Maurice Jarre: A man with eyes AND a face

I recently watched Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face, for the less pretentious of us), and was immediately captivated by the music in the film. Maurice Jarre, the famed composer of the Lawrence of Arabia score, perfectly accentuates the skin-crawliness of this film. There are two main treatments of music in Les yeux: one, a forlorn lullaby, the other, a demented carnival waltz. The aforementioned lullaby can be heard in the track "Thème Romantique". Jarre flawlessly Read more [...]

Hans Zimmer: Quintessential Hype Man

Hello, Cinematic Attic community! I have come to (hopefully) entertain and delight you, to show you things you never thought possible and to display amazing feats of aural strength! Prepare to feast your eyes and ears on the very first music entry to grace this dashing website. For my first trick, I will both amuse and offend the audience! Now, before I dive into what I'm sure some readers will regard as "Zimmer-bashing", let me first address some semantics of the film music world. I am often Read more [...]