Marvin Hamlisch

...to be selective as to which offers he accepts for composing. Soderbergh thought of Hamlisch when he watched an old Woody Allen movie while working on his Che" movie. Knowing that the tone of The Informant!" would be difficult to...

In this article: Steven Soderbergh, The Informant, Woody Allen, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Vitamin, Oscars, Che, and Nobody Does It Better

With its old-school orchestrations and exuberant evocation of Henry Mancini and other greats, Hamlisch's music becomes a character in itself, often providing the sole emotional key to scenes that would otherwise be dully routine. As...

In this article: Steven Soderbergh, Mark Whitacre, The Informant, Matt Damon, Archer Daniels Midland, FBI, Scott Bakula, and Orchestration

...Melanie Lynskey as Mark's wife and Scott Bakula and Joel McHale as FBI agents), Soderbergh, Burns and mood-setting composer Marvin Hamlisch take a corn-fed tale and let it ... sizzle and then pop. Post-Gazette movie editor Barbara Vancheri...

In this article: Mark Whitacre, The Informant, Matt Damon, Archer Daniels Midland, Michael Crichton, FBI, Steven Soderbergh, Post-Gazette, 007, and James Bond

...Cornfed on Greed If you want to know why Steven Soderbergh tapped Marvin Hamlisch to write the zany score for "The Informant!," a deadly serious comedy about corporate malfeasance, consider the title's exclamation point. Like that...

In this article: Mark Whitacre, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, The Informant, Scott Bakula, Kurt Eichenwald, Bananas, The Girlfriend Experience, Che, and Lysine

He told reporters earlier that he got the latter job because the director had seen a DVD of Woody Allen's "Bananas," which deals with a South American revolution and which Hamlisch had scored, while on location making his epic "Che." The...

In this article: Alexandre Desplat, Oscar, Steven Soderbergh, U.S., DVD, Che, Marc Streitenfeld, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

...track, Hamlisch proves that he never really went away. Like the films he used to supplement, he just needed the right project to propel his muse - and The Informant! is clearly it. Drag Me to Hell: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack...

In this article: Gamer, Christopher Young, Drag Me to Hell, The Informant, Steven Soderbergh, Brian Taylor, Academy Award, and Sam Raimi