Garth Davis On The Music Of Mary Magdalene, Lion & Jóhann Jóhannsson
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Almost by definition, anyone who listens to this show will have been deeply saddened by the recent death of composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. Well, the moment has come for us to pay our little tribute, as we talk to director Garth Davis about Mary Magdalene, the last film Jóhann worked on.
In this episode, Garth discusses Mary, his previous film Lion, and of course Jóhann, who teamed up with fellow Icelander Hildur Guðnadóttir for his final score.
On another note, if you're an EE customer, we have some exciting news for you, as EE are offering 2 free tickets to see Call Me By Your Name at selected Vue and Odeon cinemas across the UK.
The screening is taking place on the 26th March as part of the Our Screen initiative – with each customer getting 2 tickets using the code: EEBAFTA2018. You can choose your cinema and get tickets a ourscreen.com/eebafta.
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| 0:00.0 | Almost by definition anyone who listens to this show will have been deeply saddened by the recent death of composer |
| 0:21.2 | Johann Johansson at the tragically young age of 48. |
| 0:25.2 | Well, the moment has come for us to pay our little tribute as we talk to director Garth Davis |
| 0:29.9 | about Mary Magdalene, the film music podcast in partnership with the EE BAFTAs, on which note |
| 0:55.6 | we have news of a great offer for EE customers about a screening of the fantastic call |
| 1:01.1 | me by your name before the end of today's program. |
| 1:04.8 | Before that, Garth will talk to us about Mary, his previous film line and of course Johann, who teamed up with fellow Icelander, Hilda |
| 1:13.0 | Hilda Gona Dottier, for his final score, and will play as much of it as we possibly can |
| 1:18.2 | throughout the conversation, starting with a piece called Leaving Home. |
| 1:32.8 | Welcome to soundtrack, and it's an absolute pleasure to meet you, Garth. |
| 1:34.8 | I'm such a fan of what you've done. |
| 1:38.6 | Can we start with Mary Magdalene and why you wanted to tell her story? |
| 1:44.5 | When I read this script, I was quite shocked that her true story hasn't been told in over 2,000 years. |
| 1:45.8 | I was just totally astonished. |
| 1:47.3 | So, I mean, that was the first thing that struck me. |
| 1:51.9 | But what really struck me, too, was it was the first time this story from this time made sense to me. |
| 1:54.0 | And it was a deeply spiritual story. |
| 1:55.6 | I just got very excited about that. |
| 1:57.2 | And it really connected with me. |
| 1:58.4 | I'm not religious at all. |
| 2:04.5 | I'm very spiritual, but there's something that really spoke to me about this story. So I had to explore it. I mean, the performances in this film are perfect. Rune is just, with very little words to start with, she has you completely on her |
| 2:10.5 | side and with her on this incredible journey that this character goes on. What were the conversations |
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