Every year, the Cannes Film Festival invites prominent figures from the world of cinema to give “Masterclasses”. Chiefly focusing on directing (previous directors have included Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Wong Kar-wai, etc.), from time to time the Masterclasses explore other aspects of film-making.
Hence, for the 65th anniversary Philip Kaufman, Alexandre Desplat and the veteran American Norman Lloyd will each speak about their work at the Buñuel Theatre followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Alexandre Desplat was the composer for:
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
■ “A personal history of film music” by Alexandre Desplat
A passionate love of music and cinema has resulted in Alexandre Desplat working with some of the greatest film directors of our age - Jacques Audiard, Stephen Frears, David Fincher, Roman Polanski and Terrence Malick. Following in the tradition of the French greats of film music composing, this multi award-winning artist has also composed the music for several films in this year’s Official Selection.
As a result of his 2006 Masterclass which he gave on his own work, this year Alexandre Desplat will talk about fellow composers’ work: “Great film scores, he explains, should enhance the film, the collective body of work as well as being able to exist independently of the images. It was by listening to the compositions of Delerue, Jarre, Waxman, Rota, Herrmann, Goldsmith, and Takemitsu that I was able to develop my own style. Personal and intimate, the job of the film score composer is to reveal and become part of the rhythm, light and framing of the film like an invisible character – a parallel scenario. The composer creates a subtle relationship between the images and the music resulting in an intangible vibration that makes him the third author of the film”.
The Masterclass will take place on Saturday, 19 May at the Buñuel Theatre.
Read more about Alexandre Desplat here: www.alexandredesplat.net
Hence, for the 65th anniversary Philip Kaufman, Alexandre Desplat and the veteran American Norman Lloyd will each speak about their work at the Buñuel Theatre followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Alexandre Desplat was the composer for:
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2009
■ “A personal history of film music” by Alexandre Desplat
A passionate love of music and cinema has resulted in Alexandre Desplat working with some of the greatest film directors of our age - Jacques Audiard, Stephen Frears, David Fincher, Roman Polanski and Terrence Malick. Following in the tradition of the French greats of film music composing, this multi award-winning artist has also composed the music for several films in this year’s Official Selection.
As a result of his 2006 Masterclass which he gave on his own work, this year Alexandre Desplat will talk about fellow composers’ work: “Great film scores, he explains, should enhance the film, the collective body of work as well as being able to exist independently of the images. It was by listening to the compositions of Delerue, Jarre, Waxman, Rota, Herrmann, Goldsmith, and Takemitsu that I was able to develop my own style. Personal and intimate, the job of the film score composer is to reveal and become part of the rhythm, light and framing of the film like an invisible character – a parallel scenario. The composer creates a subtle relationship between the images and the music resulting in an intangible vibration that makes him the third author of the film”.
The Masterclass will take place on Saturday, 19 May at the Buñuel Theatre.
Read more about Alexandre Desplat here: www.alexandredesplat.net
source: www.festival-cannes.fr
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