The Ghost Goes West (1935) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch

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  The Ghost Goes West (1935) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch  British Film, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance Venice Film Festival, 1936-  Official Selection National Board of Review, 1936- Winner: Top Foreign Films When French director René Clair crossed the English Channel to make his first British film, nobody quite expected him to deliver a comedy that would feel so undeniably American in its spirit. The result was The Ghost Goes West , a delightful 1935 satirical fantasy that took a gentle, witty jab at the clash between old-world Scottish tradition and new-world American commercialism. More on Wikipedia or Mubi  A Ghost That Conquered America  The story kicks off in the rugged, misty highlands of Scotland, where Murdoch Glourie, a dashing but somewhat cowardly 18th-century Scotsman, dies in a ridiculous explosion of gunpowder. Because he failed to avenge an insult to his family name, Murdoch is doomed to haunt his ancestral castle until he can find a w...
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Listen Maps to the Stars (2014) Soundtrack by Howard Shore

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Maps to the Stars is a 2014 internationally co-produced satirical comedy film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird. The screenplay was written by Bruce Wagner, who had written a novel entitled Dead Stars based on the Maps to the Stars script, after initial plans for making the film with Cronenberg fell through. The film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2014. Moore won the festival's Best Actress Award.

Celebrating 35 years since their first collaboration, MAPS TO THE STARS is the 15th David Cronenberg film to feature music by Howard Shore. The film marks the fifteenth feature film collaboration between the director and the composer.

Winner of the 2014 Cannes Soundtrack Award this past May, MAPS TO THE STARS was given the award for the original score best suited to a feature film in official competition by a jury of 15 critics.

“Shore delivers one of his best scores yet… a menacing undertow that picks up on some of the ethnic, New Age sounds of the world it depicts, but shifts them into Clockwork Orange territory,” said Lee Marshall of Screen Daily.

The film MAPS TO THE STARS connects the savage beauty of writer Bruce Wagner’s Los Angeles with the riveting filmmaking of director David Cronenberg and a stellar ensemble cast to take a tour into the darkly comic heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. The result is a modern Hollywood Gothic at once about the ravenous 21st Century need for fame and validation — and the yearning, loss and fragility that lurk in the shadows underneath. The film stars Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon


 




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