Yesterday we noted many music/movie connections happening at the upcoming 2009 Toronto International Film Festival:
– Irish DJ David Holmes scoring the Irish gangster comedy, ” “Perrier’s Bounty” with Cillian Murphy.
– Montreal indie-rockers Malajube providing the music to the Jay Baruchel picture, “The Trotsky.“
– Noted composers Clint Mansell and Michael Penn writing the music for the Michael Douglas film, “Solitary Man.“
– L.A. string players, The Section Quartet composing the music for Drew Barrymore’s rollerskate derby comedy “Whip it!” starring Ellen Page.
Lots of great music to look forward to in upcoming films. And today there’s more.
Other notable music connections at the TIFF ’09 we’ve now grown too lazy to write full posts about?
– Mark Isham (“The Black Dahlia,” “In the Valley of Elah,” “Crash”) has scored Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port Of New Orleans” (and you were hoping it was like KISS and Godflesh with a resurrected Bonzo on drums or some insane shit).
– Max Richter – he of the excellent and haunting score to “Waltz With Bashir” — has scored the Italian terrorism drama, “The Front Line” starring the beautiful Giovanna Mezzogiorno who put in a great performance earlier this year in the Cannes film, “Vincere.”
– We must have somehow missed this or no one talked about it in reviews, but Alexandre Desplat (‘Benjamin Button,’ “Birth,” the upcoming “Fantastic Mr. Fox”) has scored the lauded Cannes favorite “Un Prophete” by Jacques Audiard.
– Ryuichi Sakamoto has written music for “Women Without Men.”
– The Japanese electronica/post-rock group World’s End Girlfriend have soundtracked Hirokazu Kore-eda’s upcoming film, “Air Doll.”
Lots of good stuff coming. Write into TIFF and tell them to accept our application already. 😉