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Nov 29, 2018 · Two-time Oscar nominee Carter Burwell has penned music for the films of Joel and Ethan Coen for more than 30 years, including such classics as "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski." But "The Ballad of ...
It radically alters the mood of True Grit, a biggest improvement from the rote western jangle and cornball crooning of old." - Peter Howell, Toronto Star, December 22, 2010. "Carter Burwell's long been a Coen brothers collaborator, and his evocative, moody and subtly atmospheric scores for the enigmatic filmmakers have essentially been ignored ...
Dec 11, 2022 · One of my personal favorite elements of Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin is Carter Burwell’s sensitive, lived-in score. The Oscar nominee has created music so essential to the inner turmoil of the men at the center of this film by tapping into the loneliness of the island itself. Burwell didn’t want to write a frenetic score ...
"The score for Searchlight Pictures’ The Banshees of Inisherin from Academy Award®-nominated composer, Carter Burwell, stands out as a separate character in ...
Feb 7, 2018 · Carter Burwell’s unusual style led him to write and compose music for unusual films. In the historical drama Rob Roy, the score remarkably stays away from the blockbuster clichés and subtly blends with the traditional Scottish music that complements, with an unusual softness, the haunting themes composed by Burwell (with the participation of the Scottish band Capercaillie).
Carter Burwell, meanwhile, contributes the first in his apparently endless series of brilliant scores (see also Fargo, Being John Malkovich, The Spanish Prisoner), evoking a palpable sense of dread with just a couple of piano keys." - Time Out New York "... Burwell has an intuitive feel for connecting noises in a way that is listenable.
"Carter Burwell’s brilliant score is the most paranoid piece of film music since Quincy Jones’s neurotic soundtrack for The Anderson Tapes – it’s particularly well-judged as it brings a gravity to a collection of characters who we could otherwise dismiss as numbskulls and nincompoops." - Wendy Ide, The Times, August 27, 2008.
