{babes} PR: Mutant Chronicles

SILVA SCREEN MUSIC AMERICA PRESENTS

MUTANT CHRONICLES OST

RICHARD WELLS' SCORE TO SIMON HUNTER'S SECOND FEATURE

STARRING RON PERLMAN AND JOHN MALKOVICH

From the composer of Jake West's cult debut Razor Blade Smile, the
martial arts smash hit Ong-bak and the hit BBC3 TV series Being Human,
comes an intense contemporary orchestral action score.

The Mutant Chronicles tells the story of the last mission of the only
surviving humans on earth, a hopeless task which ends in bloody
failure against an army of Mutants. The visual backdrop of muddy
trenches and huge WW1 style weaponry is aided by the Richard Wells'
music. Reflecting the ever increasing futility of the mission, the
score starts with a haunting melody in the trenches before the mission
begins and then becomes ever more discordant as the survivors die one
by one until the final violent act, accompanied by a dreadful
dissonant cacophony.

Richard began his professional music career as a programmer, keyboard
player and engineer, and his credits include work on tracks by Dominic
King (My Simple Heart), Jon Moss (Culture Club), Talk Talk and Clan of
Xymox.

Richard's break into films came in 1998 and in 2002 he started writing
music for film trailers, including The Grudge, Seven Swords and
Infernal Affairs.

After scoring the teaser for Simon Hunter, Richard was asked to write
a full orchestral score for the major feature film Mutant Chronicles.
More recently, Richard scored the hit TV series Being Human and the
Jake West comedy/horror film Doghouse.

TRACK LISTING
1. Take Off (4.05)
2. The Night Before (1.36)
3. Mutant Attack (4.28)
4. The Corporate Council (1.38)
5. Give Me Twenty Men (2.25)
6. Mitch and Adelaide (2.29)
7. The Sewer (3.09)
8. The City Burns (0.57)
9. The Killing Fields (2.57)
10. McGuire (0.58)
11. The Lost City (1.42)
12. How Much Do You Weigh? (1.37)
13. Bonecrusher (4.33)
14. Steiner Rescued (1.57)
15. Monastery (2.22)
16. Lift Shaft (3.35)
17. Tunnel Of Bones (3.50)
18. Leap Of Faith (2.36)
19. Mutant Chronicles End Credits (7.37)

The Mutant Chronicles soundtrack is available at iTunes.

For more information contact cinemediapromo@yahoo.com
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{babes} Rachel Weisz stars in religious epic "Agora"

 
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CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) – Although no self-respecting epic can come in at less than two hours, Alejandro Amenabar will nevertheless need good word-of-mouth to attract wider audiences willing to sit through 144 minutes and a heavy-handed beginning in his new film, "Agora." Hopefully, he will get it.

Amenabar gets most of the epic staples out of the way relatively early: flatly acted scenes of textbook exposition, overly earnest extras, main characters who wander unscathed through hordes of butchery and, of course, frequently swelling music. The story then becomes a timely parable on religious intolerance, inexorable fundamentalist violence and the powerlessness of reason and personal freedom in the face of both.

The heart of the film is Hypatia (Rachel Weisz in an unfaltering performance), the fourth century AD philosopher and teacher who lived in Alexandria during the Roman Empire. Married only to her unquenchable intellect and passion for mathematics and astronomy, she is loved by two men: her slave, Davus (Max Minghella), and her student, Orestes (Oscar Isaac).

Politics in the film are weakest during the overtly political speeches and monologues, and best captured in the details. Like many, Davus seeks not spiritual salvation in the Christian uprising but freedom from slavery, despite the bloodshed. His first attempt at prayer is brilliant: Unable to remember the Lord's Prayer, he quickly falls into a mantra to God to keep Hypatia away from Orestes. For his part, Orestes will renounce paganism and convert to Christianity during his rise in Roman politics.

Amenabar and screenwriter Mateo Gil adeptly show that each character's destiny is written from the onset. As is history when hatred and power lust are corruptly instrumentalized in the name of a single, incontestable truth.

There is also no question as to what side the filmmakers are on. The Christians in "Agora" are more preoccupied with slaughtering than spirituality and the only truly principled character is Hypatia the atheist, who may have come close to proving that the Earth revolves around the sun 1,200 years before Johannes Kepler. She is the only one who never sacrifices her unwavering "faith," in reason and intellectual freedom, for personal gain.

It is a pleasure to see Weisz's scenes of scientific inquiry, which capture the passion of research and discovery without artifice or pretension. That the scientist is a woman makes it all the more engaging.

The entire cast comes through very well after the shaky beginning, and while Minghella says little he has good screen presence. However, the biggest surprises are the lesser-known supporting actors: Isaac; Sammy Samir as a bishop seemingly devoid of human emotion; and Ashraf Barhom, whose Ammonious, a Christian Parabalani, is the epitome of a devout-less thug.

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