Marvin Hamlisch
Composer and Musician
AICN-Downunder: THE INFORMANT!, COLD SOULS, TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN pics, and potential HOBBIT casting news!!...alarmingly like Bruce McGill these days) getting such meaty, interesting roles. The real star of the film, however, is the score by Marvin Hamlisch. Soderbergh has an uncanny ability to cast the perfect composer, be it David Holmes (OUT... In this article: The Informant, Paul Giamatti, Matt Damon, This Is England, Shane Meadows, Polar bear, Charlie Kaufman, In the Cut, and Being John Malkovich |
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all about jazz | September 27, 2009
TV/FILM: Composer Marvin Hamlisch Writes Score for Steven Soderbergh's 'Informant!'
...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
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washingtonpost.com | September 17, 2009
Ann Hornaday Movie Review: Soderbergh and Damon's Darkly Funny 'Informant'
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
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 18, 2009
'The Informant!' turns fact-based story into criminally funny tale
...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
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New York Times | September 17, 2009
Movie Review 'The Informant!': A Corporate Culture Cornfed on Greed
...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
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The Hollywood Reporter - Music | October 17, 2009
Alexandre Desplat tops soundtrack nods
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
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PopMatters | September 15, 2009
Surround Sound: Welcome to the Odditorium (Short Ends and Leader)
...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
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Description from Wikipedia:
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony, a Golden Globe and a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers).
- Name At Birth:
- Marvin Frederick Hamlisch
- Birth Date:
- June 02, 1944
- Occupation:
- Composer, conductor
- Instrument Played:
- Piano
- Years Active:
- 1965-present
- Associated With:
- Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
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