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"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."
Carter Burwell's Notes. The milieu of this film is a Jewish community in the Midwestern United States in the 1960s. Every attempt to incorporate these elements (Judaism, the Midwest, the 60s) into the score was unsuccessful.
Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores. He has consistently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, Hail, Caesar! and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Show Info. Written by Kerry Ehrin Directed by Mimi Leder Produced by Michael Ellenberg. Composed and Arranged by Carter Burwell. Additional Music by Forrest Gray and Logan Nelson. Music Editor: Adam Smalley. Recorded and mixed at The Body, New York. Starring Jennifer Anniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Gugu ...
"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.
Feb 7, 2016 · Despite Burwell's lack of formal training, Joel Coen says the brothers have always felt like they were in good musical hands. "Carter is so good at sort of moving into these different kinds of ...
"The always witty composer Carter Burwell lets his score comment on the arena rock bombast; he adds a percussive backbeat to the lute, flutes and mandolins and tosses in a bit of John Philip Sousa, too, to augment the saber-rattling." - Elvis Mitchell, New York Times, May 11, 2001.
