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Movie News, Scores

Free Music Fridays: Alexei Aigui’s ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Score

Lakeshore Records is pleased to dedicate this week’s Free Music Fridays to Alexei Aigui’s score to the groundbreaking documentary, I Am Not Your Negro!  If you never got a chance to watch the film drawn from James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember This House,  then this might be the most relevant time ever.  The Academy Award®-nominated film directed by Raoul Peck picked up numerous awards including the Best News & Documentary EMMY®, a BAFTA and Berlinale Best Documentary win, and the Best Documentary César.

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Grammys, Scores

Nicholas Britell on 2018’s Best Movie Score, If Beale Street Could Talk | Polygon

 

A transcendent riff of loft jazz and Harlem neighborhood soundscapes that beams down from the vastness of space to envelop Barry Jenkins’ romantic images… – Matt Patches, Polygon

In this interview with If Beale Street Could Talk composer Nicholas Britell, Polygon drills down on the sounds you may or may not have heard on the Academy Award®-nominated score, and so much more.  Read the full story at Polygon before you take the score for another spin.

Barry Jenkins’ Academy Award-winning film If Beale Street Could Talk is now available on Digital and Blu-ray/DVD.  See  below for soundtrack and film purchase links.

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Grammys, Press & Reviews, Scores

‘If Beale Street Could Talk’: The Hearable Texture of Nicholas Britell’s Score | Vice

Pictured: If Beale Street Could Talk UK Exclusive

[Barry Jenkins] brought over composer Nicholas Britell, who supplied the hearable texture to Moonlight’s sound, along with his own changeless cinematic talent for stripping scenes to their most bare sentiments.  – Vice

Academy Award®-winning Director Barry Jenkins talks about the burden of honoring James Baldwin in this interview over at Vice.  Vice’s Noel Ransome also spoke with Composer Nicholas Britell about he made the magic happen once again in his latest collaboration with Jenkins.  There’s also a bonus video interview. 

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Scores

Throwback Thursday: Academy Award-Nominated Doc ‘I Am Not Your Negro’, Score By Alexei Aigui

In this edition of Throwback Thursday, we pay tribute to James Baldwin, novelist, playwright, and social critic. We take a look at I Am Not Your Negro, Academy Award®-nominated documentary based on his unfinished novel, Remember This House. The film features score by award-winning composer Alexei Aigui.

James Baldwin is also known for the novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, now an Academy Award®-nominated film.

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen]

 

Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing present I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, available now On Demand (get it here) and now streaming on Amazon Prime.

 

Events, Scores

Meet Nicholas Britell, Academy Award Nominated Composer of ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ At Amoeba Hollywood On February 5

Join us for a conversation with Academy Award® Nominee Nicholas Britell, composer of If Beale Street Could Talk, nominated for three Academy Awards® including Best Score and Best Adapted Screenplay!  He’ll be playing selections from his Oscar®-nominated scores, If Beale Street Could Talk and Moonlight.

To attend the signing/meet after the event:  purchase your copy of the If Beale Street Could Talk soundtrack at Amoeba Hollywood on February 5th.

“Jenkins has made an absolutely gorgeous movie, from his vibrant color palette of saturated primary hues and pastels to Nicholas Britell’s mournful, poetic score.” – Washington Post

“the score for If Beale Street Could Talk makes it that much easier to trust in the love that takes this movie all the way.” – IndieWire

Amoeba Hollywood
6400 Sunset Blvd. (between Cahuenga and Ivar)
Los Angeles, CA 90028
February 5th @ 6:00pm

Go to Amoeba online for more details.

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen]

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