 | Afterwards
Buy new: $8.99 His third CD in a month. The man is BUSY!
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 | The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $12.85 Wistful, intimate, romantic, subtle. Not at all what I was expecting, but beautiful.
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 | Largo Winch
Buy new: $37.98 / Used from: $24.78 Score to a new French action film. Fantastic James Bond-style sound. Will be available as a US CD next year when the film comes out here. Available for now only on iTunes.
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 | Golden Compass: Original Soundtrack
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $6.44 Surprisingly understated, but vast. Check out an interesting documentry on the film's DVD about Desplat's work here.
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 | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $35.39 A giddily thematic score, in the vein of Williams's Home Alone. Co-written with Aaron Zigman because The Golden Compass became too time-consuming.
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 | Lust, Caution (Score)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.22 My favorite Desplat score. A theme I was humming for months. Just about a perfect film score.
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 | L'Ennemi Intime (OST)
A lovely main theme for a French film about the Algerian War.
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 | Nouvelles Vagues
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $9.99 Desplat recorded this album of music from famous French New Wave films with the Traffic Quintet.
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 | The Painted Veil
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.09 More awards. Another gloriously old-fashioned, very BIG score.
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 | The Queen
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.24 Shades of Bernard Herrmann, to my ear. What would seem a topic suited to television becomes cinematic, thanks in part to the way Desplat opens the film up with his epic score.
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 | Alexandre Desplat - Jacques Audiard's films (Read My Lips · A Self-Made Hero · See How They Fall · The Beat That My Heart Skipped) by Alexandre Desplat
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.44 Highlights album from Desplat's collaboration with Audiard. The tracks from READ MY LIPS are among my favorites from all his works.
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 | Quand J'Etais Chanteur
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $13.49 Only one 8 min score track on the album, haven't heard it yet.
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 | Firewall (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.49 A great score for another mediocre actioner. Not quite as good as HOSTAGE, but the 10 minute bank robbery cue is worth the purchase price alone.
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 | Syriana
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.98 Totally unexpected. Spare, possibly his least hummable album, but still gorgeous.
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 | Casanova (2005 Lasse Hallstrom film)
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.90 Only two brief cues of Desplat's music on the album. Most of the film was scored with existing classical music in the end.
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 | Hostage
Buy used from: $10.25 The action score that everyone was talking about. Huge, operatic, thematic, like the best action scores of Williams, Goldsmith or Barry.
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 | Beat That My Heart Skipped by Ost
Buy new: $23.99 Only one score track, but it's 20 mins long.
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 | Birth (Score)
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.84 The score where I first noticed him. The greatest opening cue of the decade.
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 | L'enquete Corse
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $29.99 A jaunty French spy-comedy score, kind of like a 60's Mancini score. Great fun.
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 | The Girl With a Pearl Earring by Alexandre Desplat
Buy used from: $7.25 The score that got everyone's attention. Awards around the globe.
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 | The Luzhin Defence by Alexandre Desplat
Buy used from: $34.99 First English language film. Breathtakingly beautiful music. I cannot stop listening to it. If you liked LUST, CAUTION, you will love this one, guaranteed.
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 | Amazone
Haven't heard this.
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 | Restons Groupés - Bande originale du film
Buy new: $8.99 A wacky, lounge-musicy zydeco-tinged comedy score that sounds like something John Williams would have written in 1972. And, yes, that's a big compliment.
The only album available in the States out of 19 from Desplat's early French work. Only available as an MP3 download.
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