#film-music

#film-music

Miley Cyrus has released "Dream as One," a new song that she made for the new movie Avatar: Fire and Ash. Cyrus co-wrote and co-produced the track with Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson, and it has additional contributions from Jonathan Wilson, Simon Franglen, Brandon Bost, and others. Listen to "Dream as One (From Avatar: Fire and Ash)" below. Avatar: Fire and Ash is the third installment in director James Cameron's Avatar franchise.

But now an artistic group from Austin, Texas, called Silents Synced and its director Josh Frank are offering a new approach to silent cinema: showing classics to music by established stars. This one, Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror puts Murnau's 1922 vampire classic Nosferatu with Radiohead's Kid A from 2000 and Amnesiac from 2001. But I just couldn't make friends with this fundamentally wrong-headed idea.

Highest 2 Lowest features a soundtrack album curated by Spike Lee, including new songs from A$AP Rocky, Aiyana-Lee, and Jensen McRae, alongside original scores.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™ Part 1 in Concert offers audiences a chance to experience the film with live orchestral music, enhancing the storytelling with live music.

One technique powerfully employed in the film has the incongruous name of "Mickey Mousing." Named after the manner in which classic cartoons were scored in tight synchrony with the movements of their characters, it had fallen into disuse by the nineteen-seventies, when a subtler cinematic style prevailed.

"Cristobal Tapia de Veer's score in Smile contrasts disorienting soundscapes with moments of intense musicality, effectively enhancing the film's horror elements through innovative compositions."