Celebrate Our Cinemas Episode 2: David Arnold

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Celebrate Our Cinemas is a brand new limited edition podcast series, brought to you by Empire in association with Meerkat Movies from Compare The Market. Each week, for six weeks, Chris Hewitt will sit down with a notable guest form the world of film and dig deep into their cinema-going history. What was the first film they remember seeing? What film made them laugh so hard that tears were streaming down their face? What's their favourite cinema in the whole wide world? And, perhaps most important of all, what's their cinema-going snack of choice? In our second episode, Chris chats to David Arnold, the acclaimed composer of some of the finest film and television scores of the past couple of decades. From Casino Royale to Sherlock, he's long been one of the best in the business, and David took time out from working on A Circle Of Sound, a ten-movement work he composed to mark the reopening of The Royal Albert Hall, to walk down memory lane. So listen on for tales of the movies that moved David to become a composer, how he masterminded James Bond's musical reintroduction, and his beef with pick'n'mix. Regular listeners will know that David is a very funny man, and this is no exception. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Huett and welcome to the second episode of Celebration of Cinema,
0:21.5	or celebrate our cinemas, a brand new limited edition series of podcasts brought to you
0:27.2	by Empire in association with those fine folks at Miracat movies from Compare, the market.
0:33.4	The goal of this show is very simple. This pandemic has reminded us all of the important things
0:39.6	in life and for most movie fans the impact that it's had on cinemas and the act of cinema
0:44.6	going which so many of us had taken for granted has been devastating. Earlier this year, Empire
0:50.3	launched an entire issue dedicated to celebrating cinema going and that is something we have
0:55.2	continued since hence this podcast in which I will talk to a figure from the world of film
1:01.6	every week for the next. Well now this is the second episode so the next one two three four four
1:08.4	weeks five weeks including this one about their most memorable movie going experiences.
1:13.7	In the first episode I spoke to Olga Kirillenko, star of Black Widow and Quantum of Solace and now
1:20.4	we're keeping the Bond theme going. Well not the actual Bond theme we can't afford that.
1:28.0	By talking to one of the finest composers in the business, the wonderful David Arnold.
1:33.2	The British composer has written scores for a whole bunch of Bond films over the years including
1:38.0	Kaceta Royale and the aforementioned Quantum of Solace. He co-wrote my favorite Bond theme song,
1:44.0	Chris Cornell's cracking you know my name along the way and he's also composed the soundtracks
1:49.5	for the likes of Independence Day, Hot Fuzz, and Siouxlander while his work on the small screen
1:56.4	includes Sherlock, Dracula and Good Omen's. The man knows his way around the score that is for sure
2:04.7	and as anyone who caught the special interview I did with him and fellow composer Michael Chiquino
2:09.6	a few years ago will know that he's an extremely funny man with a sense of humor so dry
2:15.6	it has been officially classified as a desert. When we spoke he was preparing for the first
2:20.8	live performance of a circle of sound, a ten movement work that he had written specifically
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