Edmilson 5,663 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 IndieWire has published a new profile about Desplat, including comments from him about his more recent scores, Pinnochio, The French Dispatch... and Black Widow. https://www.indiewire.com/2020/05/alexandre-desplat-interview-black-widow-pinocchio-french-dispatch-1202232702/ Bayesian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,443 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 https://variety.com/2020/music/news/alexandre-desplat-score-wes-anderson-french-dispatch-cannes-interview-1234646811/ Great conversation between Desplat and Powell. What a treat. These are intelligent articulate artists - not charlatan hacks. They talk so sensibly about the process. These are zoom chats. Surely Williams can do an hour long Zoom chat. When was the last time he did this long of an interview? Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 5,891 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Epic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 2,694 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 40 minutes ago, TheUlyssesian said: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/alexandre-desplat-score-wes-anderson-french-dispatch-cannes-interview-1234646811/ Great conversation between Desplat and Powell. What a treat. These are intelligent articulate artists - not charlatan hacks. They talk so sensibly about the process. These are zoom chats. Surely Williams can do an hour long Zoom chat. When was the last time he did this long of an interview? publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,759 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Well he was gonna do that Dudamel one but got posponed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KK 3,288 Posted December 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2020 Desplat's score keeps popping up in all the reviews. Cautiously optimistic for a proper musical sendoff for 2020. Chewy, publicist and fommes 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 3,297 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 I just own one soundtrack of Alexandre Desplat, Girl with the Pearl Earring, 5 Euro in a record store. The main theme reminded me annoingly of the main theme from Seven Years in Tibet. Then I was more disturbed than pleased by the score while watching Valerian. Listened a little bit to The Shape of Water, but didn't excite me. Any recomendation for a Desplat newbie? What is his best work in your oppinion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 6,332 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 2 minutes ago, GerateWohl said: I just own one soundtrack of Alexandre Desplat, Girl with the Pearl Earring, 5 Euro in a record store. The main theme reminded me annoingly of the main theme from Seven Years in Tibet. Then I was more disturbed than pleased by the score while watching Valerian. Listened a little bit to The Shape of Water, but didn't excite me. Any recomendation for a Desplat newbie? What is his best work in your oppinion? You already own it! But BIRTH and L'ENNEMI INTIME are also personal favs. And most of what he did with Audiard. And THE GHOST WRITER. I'm generally not a fan of Desplat's, but once in a while he does something pretty good. Mostly back in the day, though, not so much anymore. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 3,297 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Thank you very much, Thor. Good Inputs as always. As I mentioned, TGwtPE is nice, but the main theme reminded me a little bit too much of Seven Years in Tibet. I will give your proposals a listen. Probably, I would be most interested in his rejected Rogue One score. But I am sure, that will never see the light of day. And I don't expect it to be very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,275 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 If you like HTTYD, I think you will like RISE OF THE GUARDIANS GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 1,965 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 23 minutes ago, bruce marshall said: If you like HTTYD, I think you will like LEGENDS OF THE GUARDIANS Agreed. Listened to that the other day. It’s a great score. Lots of good thematic material. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post toothless 959 Posted January 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 18, 2021 Bayesian, Chewy and fommes 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 556 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 I wish it had subtitles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothless 959 Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 On 12/6/2018 at 8:54 PM, toothless said: Yeah no I could not send the picture as the network is weak in the concert hall. Speaking of which is a great venue. It’s the intermission and for now I can say that Valerian greatly benefits a live performance ! Concert is recorded by the way. Audio and video . So I now know why this concert was recorded It's been broadcasted on Arte as part of the concert series. And it's available on youtube! Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,244 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 On 1/3/2021 at 12:46 PM, GerateWohl said: Any recomendation for a Desplat newbie? What is his best work in your oppinion? The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Tree Of Life, his work for Wes Anderson, and The Monuments Men. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 5,663 Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 First track from the soundtrack for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch: Holko and Once 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 8,672 Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 Very Desplat, and it has "quirky" written all over it. I look forward to hearing the rest of the OST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 5,663 Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 29 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Very Desplat, and it has "quirky" written all over it. To be honest, "quirky" defines pretty much every Desplat score for Wes Anderson ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,638 Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 I like it. Solistic chamber music, film music needs more of thee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 3,297 Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 For my taste this is too much chord driven and too little melody or theme driven. That kind of instrumental music bores me after a few minutes latest after the 20th loop of this four chord or if we are lucky eight chord sequence. Typical modern score issue. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliandra 90 Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 Alexandre Desplat named Alex North's The Misfits his favorite film score ever. Interviewer: Other than one of your own what is your favorite film score? Alexandre Desplat: That’s a hard one too, but, The Misfits. Interviewer: Why do you love it? Alexandre Desplat: It’s a combination. It’s not just a score. I guess it’s how the score plays with the film. And how the score, written by Alex North, swings from a big band to a symphony orchestra. The melody is absolutely heartbreaking. [sings a little of the melody] And when you know, I mean, the aftermath of what happened to these actors after The Misfits is just so brilliant, it’s almost a premonition of Alex North to everything. This is such tragic music for three actors who will tragically die soon after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 5,891 Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 On 15/09/2021 at 3:58 AM, GerateWohl said: For my taste this is too much chord driven and too little melody or theme driven. That kind of instrumental music bores me after a few minutes latest after the 20th loop of this four chord or if we are lucky eight chord sequence. Typical modern score issue. I understand this but in the film, I really did get a kick out of that incessant little groove that played throughout the third story It reminded me of that very similar bass line in Grand Budapest Hotel It is basically the same old bag of tricks for the same kind of comic-action espionage setpieces but they are really fun in the movies. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,275 Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 RISE OF THE.GUARDIANS for traditional, symphonic, thematic composing. GHOST WRITER and IMITATION game for fans of high- energy, percussive music in the vein of Herrmann, Glass, Nyman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,443 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 What does Desplat think are his most notable works? https://www.awardsdaily.com/2022/01/10/alexandre-desplat-dispatch/ Girl with a Pearl Earring Read My Lips the two Harry Potter movies Grand Budapest Mr. Fox The Imitation Game Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 33,667 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Surprised he doesn't think more highly of Birth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,443 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 He kinda has a disappointingly awards-centric and box office centric view of his own oeuvre. What are his passion projects? Or does he only like stuff that got him accolades and money? And he's one of the few Hollywood composers working across the world. Yet has a Hollywood centric view of his own work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 556 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 hour ago, TheUlyssesian said: He kinda has a disappointingly awards-centric and box office centric view of his own oeuvre. What are his passion projects? Or does he only like stuff that got him accolades and money? And he's one of the few Hollywood composers working across the world. Yet has a Hollywood centric view of his own work. From interviews I've gotten the impression that Desplat's greatest idol is John Williams, often mentioning Star Wars and Harry Potter as examples of perfect film scores. So perhaps he is particularly proud of having succeeded in Hollywood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mrbellamy 5,891 Posted January 11, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2022 He wasn't asked about his passion projects, he was asked for a "Mount Rushmore of Desplat" which is probably embarrassing for him to consider anyway. And if you're just reaching for things off the top of your head, then of course you'll think of the things that had an impact. He clearly doesn't mull over this list in his free time. Just because he didn't think of Birth in that second doesn't mean he doesn't think highly of it. Girl with a Pearl Earring changed his career, it was a big deal. Jacques Audiard and Wes Anderson are important partners. Harry Potter was two in a row with probably the biggest budgets and most resources he ever got, probably dealing with the studio at the highest level, obviously it would have been a high-pressure learning experience and he'd be proud of how he acquitted himself, and he got to try to measure up to his hero. The Imitation Game, whatever, maybe Turing's story means a lot to him or he is just very proud of how it came out. Maybe he just loves that score. Or maybe he did just think of it because he said Grand Budapest and they were Oscar chums. He didn't mention Shape of Water which won him another Oscar. I never liked the idea that only obscure projects can be passion projects, anyway, and it's pretty cynical to suggest he's thinking about awards and money...he only mentions awards once, anyway, in the context of Girl with a Pearl Earring getting him a Golden Globe nod and opening up his career. He never said anything about box office in that quote. But even so, I do think a lot of creative people rely on what other people say about their work or other feedback they get on it, because they try not to think about it or just don't trust their own evaluations. It reminds me of when Paul Thomas Anderson was asked about Boogie Nights and how he would define it, thematically, and he said it's been too long that now he just finds himself parroting what other people have said about it for 25 years. Once, Zenon and Arpy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,275 Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Just got DISPATCH ost from the liberry. Don't know anything about the film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Will 2,157 Posted April 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 2, 2022 This cue ("Obituary" from The French Dispatch) is so, so good: Love how the melody so naturally passes between the different instruments. Definitely in the running for the best cue of 2021 in my book. Shame the rest of the score didn't really do much for me. Desplat is in some ways a very frustrating composer to me -- at his best, he is probably my favorite currently-working composer (other than Williams of course), but he can also write entire scores that I find hard to listen to. He is undoubtedly a masterful composer -- his precise orchestrations, delicate rhythms, and gorgeous melodies make his music perhaps the most romantic being composed today, in my view. Little Women from 2019 is probably my all-time favorite Desplat score (and one of my favorite scores by any composer other than Williams) -- every cue is so elegant. I hope he is able to return to that style in a future score -- although obviously Desplat in other modes does still yield some gems (like "Obituary" above!). Once, Chewy and Bayesian 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 7,540 Posted April 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 3, 2022 Listening to The Outfit. There's nothing particularly new about it but it makes a nice suspense-driven score album. It's colourful and entertaining all the way through. Desplat has a real knack for writing entertaining thriller scores. Glad it is getting a CD release as well. I shall add this to my collection. Karol Once, Chewy, Will and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,157 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 The Outfit was an example of the type of Desplat score I don't particularly enjoy -- though I will admit this cue is an earworm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 5,663 Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Desplat will score the next Roman Polanski movie: http://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/04/25/alexandre-desplat-to-score-roman-polanskis-the-palace/ Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 6,332 Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 Could be interesting. THE GHOST WRITER is one of Desplat's best scores. But I always thought it would have been cool if Polanski returned to Philippe Sarde at some point, although Sarde seems "semi-retired" at only 73. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,638 Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 Let's hope it's not boring, sanitized mainstream stuff like J’accuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,483 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 I loved this very much. I've seen several interviews with Desplat about working on Anderson movies, but this is the first one I think that was interviewing Anderson and Desplat together. It's very interesting, even if it unfortunately had to be on Zoom. Chewy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DangerMotif 877 Posted September 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2022 https://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/09/05/alexandre-desplat-to-reteam-with-greta-gerwig-on-barbie/ Really great news, his Little Women score was one of his best Bayesian, Trope and Will 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,157 Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Agreed -- indeed, Little Women is by far my personal favorite Desplat score. Hope he can rediscover some of that magic here. DangerMotif 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliandra 90 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 New Alexandre Desplat music: Will and Chewy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 145 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Wonderful. Let's hope this gets an official release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 901 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 46 minutes ago, Aliandra said: New Alexandre Desplat music: Desplat normally doesn't do it for me but that was quite stirring stuff! Would happily explore a release of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,157 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Very cool! Great to hear new Desplat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DangerMotif 877 Posted September 25, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2022 13 hours ago, Aliandra said: New Alexandre Desplat music: Probably in the top 3 of alive music composers Edmilson, Chewy and Will 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMotif 877 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Interesting that he’s doing a video game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 145 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 It's not his first though, he composed something for Splinter Cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Who 798 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I really hope that this gets a release. I know that some Zimmer & Howard Shore cues for this game were released a few years ago so it's not impossible that this could get released sometime in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,244 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 3 hours ago, fommes said: It's not his first though, he composed something for Splinter Cell. He did?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Who 798 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Was Splinter Cell released? I never heard of this and I have listened to a lot of early Desplat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 145 Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 No that is unreleased as far as I know. I think it's this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Once 556 Posted November 14, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 14, 2022 Greta Gerwig is apparently set to direct two new 'Narnia' films. I really wouldn't mind that - if she continues her collaboration with Desplat! Trope, Tom Guernsey, Edmilson and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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