Interviews
Interviews
Common things – Interview with Starr Parodi
Before presenting a new movie, the studios have to produce teasers and trailers, which compress all the action into one or two minutes to guarantee the best results. Sometimes these trailers are the key to a movie's failure or success, so making an audience teaser is in deed a more serious task...
Power of melancholy – Interview with David Julyan
David Julyan didn't grab our attention with loud, symphonic mayhem on the contrary: his restrained ambient scores enhanced with synthesizers is what got to us. We first heard his strange musical world in Memento in his melancholic, yet energetic compositions. He developed his style in Insomnia,...
The Czech recruitment – Interview with Elia Cmiral
Czech-born Elia Cmiral is an intresting personality among the Hollywood composers. After scoring the successful Robert de Niro thriller Ronin, he has scored horrors (The Wrong Turn), mystical movies (Stigmata), but his name also appeared in the credits of sci-fis (Battlefield Earth) and French...
When a composer calls – Interview with James Dooley
We've first met James Dooley's name a few years ago as an additional composer. Hans Zimmer's student debuted this year with his first individual motion picture score, written for Simon West' When a Stranger Calls. His latest work is the animated short First Flight, which will be shown before...
