Composer Carter Burwell Orchestrates Emotions for Music-Filled Wonderstruck
Carter Burwell scored 15 movies for the Coen Brothers, composed music for three Spike Jonze films and picked up an Oscar nomination for the lush score he wrote for Todd Hayne’s fifties-era melodrama Carol. But in terms of sheer magnitude, Wonderstruck marks Burwell’s biggest film scoring achievement to date. Describing his latest collaboration with Haynes ...
Costume Designer Sandy Powell on her Gorgeous Period Pieces in Wonderstruck
Opening this week is Todd Hayne’s film adaptation of the illustrated novel Wonderstruck, the seemingly separate dual tales of two different children who make their way to New York, each taking refuge in the Museum of Natural History, in 1927 and 1977. The book’s author, Brian Selznick, is regarded as a master of magic in ...
How Wonderstruck Brilliantly Uses Sound & Silence to Tell a Beautiful Story
Wonderstruck, Brian Selznick’s 2011 young adult novel, weaves together illustration and text to tell a riveting story that chronicles the solo quests of two deaf 12 year olds through New York City in different eras: Rose in 1927 and Ben in 1977. The film adaptation, written by Selznick and directed by Todd Haynes, similarly transitions ...
How Wonderstruck DP Edward Lachman Channeled The French Connection for Kids Adventure
Director Todd Haynes’ longtime cinematographer Edward Lachman renders contrasting visions of New York City in their latest collaboration Wonderstruck (opening Friday.) Based on Brian Selznick’s children’s book, the story follows two kids, separated by fifty years, who run away to Manhattan in search of a missing parent and wind up forging an unexpected bond. The ...
Fall Read/Watch List: Check out These Books Before Their Cinematic Adaptations Arrive
Each year, there are a wide variety of new films that have been adapted from novels, biographies and memoirs. In 2017 alone, disparate movies like Fifty Shades Darker, The Shack, A Dog’s Purpose, The Zookeeper’s Wife and The Dark Tower were adapted from books. These films had little in common other than the commonality of ...
