Mel Brooks is 100!
LA 2016

@flexem2n play many roles in movies. It can create tone and style, it can support subtext in scenes, frame characters and their secrets, create thematic unity between separate storylines, create tempo or propulsion or pathos or even a loose comedic feeling and it can facilitate transitions. But you are right that some film makers have grand collaborations with composers where the direction and music work in glorious unison. And sometimes the musical aspects on a film can seem perfunctory. This might be a failure of the film maker or the composer to get in "harmony", or it might be that a score is not of interest to a particular film maker on a particular film. But some of us attempt to get to that glorious place you are talking about where the images and the music are a unique and braided experience. This requires time and commitment, courage, generosity and craftsmanship between the principals. It also requires the film maker to create spaces in their film where the composer can assert themselves without too much talking and sound effects and rapid cuts. In most of the greatest director/composer collaborations you will see that the film maker gave the composer some moments they could take center stage instead of fighting their way through.

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It was thrilling to collaborate with Howard Shore on my 2nd film and he wrote and conducted a wonderful evocative score that i fondly remember recording in a beautiful church in the outskirts of London. quartetrecords.com/product/cop-la…

Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Director: James Mangold

June Carter invented “fine, I’ll do it” energy.

Film: WALK THE LINE (2005)

I cannot use the past tense to describe Diane Keaton. She is & will always be a one of a kind beacon of brilliance, honesty, strength, vulnerability, humor, poetry and warmth. And a profoundly important and completely unique artist who elevates everything & everyone she touches.

RIP Remo. A great actor who left us brilliant work.. and a true gentlemen. 💔

The power & beauty of nature, investigating the intricacies of human life, and unwavering kind support to art makers — These were the pillars of the Bob Redford I knew. The world will miss him. Film will miss him. Sundance will miss him. I will miss him. He changed everything.

Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone (1971)

Music: Giù la testa (Once upon a time... the dynamite)
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“You really got this sense that this is what they were like at home.” 🎵

At a TIFF ‘05 press conference for James Mangold’s WALK THE LINE, Joaquin Phoenix shares about the power of Johnny Cash and June Carter’s music, and his experience witnessing their love firsthand. #TIFF50

Taken w/ Leica SL, Noctilux 50mm, ISO 1600 1/1000 ƒ1.7 -- by JM

68 years ago today, Sweet Smell of Success was released—icy, cynical, and still razor-sharp. We look back at Alexander Mackendrick’s noir masterpiece with rare insights, behind-the-scenes gems, & more. 🖤

👉 cinephiliabeyond.org/sweet-smell-of…

My first professional writing gig. 40 years ago when i was but a lad.

Timothée Chalamet is HYPE at MSG tonight 🔥

Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold at the #Oscars   Nominees Dinner.

Ray Liotta as Gary "Figgsy" Figgis in Cop Land (1997).

A Great performance and specifically a Brilliant speech here with Stallone. Well done @mang0ld and R.I.P. To Liotta 👏🏻👏🏻👊🏻

Photo by JM w/ Leica SL3
Summicron-SL APO 50mm
2.8 1/160 ISO 12500
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Morning Film Junkies 📽️🎥🎞️😎

"He's scared of your music, Bob."

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, nominated for 8 Academy Awards® including Best Picture. For Your Consideration. #ACompleteUnknown