Sound of Cinema - Carter Burwell
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2013
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Carter Burwell is famed for scoring the films of the iconic Coen Brothers, from 1984's Blood Simple to Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No Country for Old Men; they have one of the longest standing collaborations in the industry. Burwell was born in New York City where in the 1980s he played in a number of punk bands and worked at the New York Institute of Technology where he was first approached by the Coens. He talks to Tom Service about how he goes about approaching each score, for the Coen Brothers as well as other regular collaborators Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, Gods and Monsters), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), and Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths).
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| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.6 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.3 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
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| 0:39.9 | www.bc.com.ukau-duk slash radio three. Together, Carter and the Cone brothers have formed one of the most productive and idiosyncratic partnerships of recent cinematic history. |
| 1:14.4 | And what's amazing about their collaboration is that you can't immediately tell you're listening to a Carter Burwell score. |
| 1:20.3 | And that's a compliment. |
| 1:21.6 | What I mean by that is just think of the huge range of Joel and Ethan Cohn's movies. |
| 1:26.1 | Screwball comedies like the Hudsucker |
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