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Dec 3, 2021 · Carter Burwell has scored 19 of the movies of Joel and Ethan Coen, including such classics as “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “No Country for Old Men,” yet he’s never been nominated ...
Carter Burwell’s score also amplifies the power and the glory of the setting." - Todd McCarthy, Deadline, Sept. 5, 2022. "Carter Burwell’s score skillfully develops a feeling of small-town mystery, then dread, while cinematographer Ben Davis sticks to McDonagh’s mandate for finding sheer beauty throughout."
Mar 21, 2015 · Carter Burwell in his studio at home in Amagansett. “With some of the writers and directors I work with, for example the Coens, the material isn’t innately warm and humanistic,” he said.
Film Info. Directed by Andrew Bergman Written by Jand Anderson Produced by Mike Lobell. Composed by Carter Burwell Orchestrated and conducted by Sonny Kompanek Music Editor: Todd Kasow Music Scoring Mixer: Mike Farrow Recorded at the Sony Scoring Stage, Los Angeles, and Hit Factory, New York City. Starring Nicholas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie ...
"Carter Burwell delivers a score that, while not the best he would write for the Coens—that would wait for one more film—remains his most wildly inventive, a giddy mishmash of banjo, organ, whistling, and yodeling that plays like the mutant offspring of Marvin Hamlisch and Ennio Morricone." - Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, Sept. 9, 2014.
Carter Burwell, who works with the Coen brothers, contributes a sad and beautiful little musical score, teasing out the dread and loss in the killers' hurry-up-and-wait circumstance." - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 7, 2008.
"Composer Carter Burwell’s score, plaintive and vivid without bigfooting the action, adds a great deal." - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 25, 2017. "...Much of 'Wonderstruck' plays like a silent film, with Carter Burwell’s lilting, surging score filling in the occasional long pauses between audible dialogue."
