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Carter Burwell
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Biography
Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, scoring most of their films. He has also scored films by other directors such as Bill Condon, Todd Haynes, Spike Jonze, Martin McDonagh, James Foley, Brian Helgeland, and John Lee Hancock. Burwell received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015), McDonagh's films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Carter Burwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Big Lebowski
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Being John Malkovich
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The Hudsucker Proxy
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Anomalisa
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Where the Wild Things Are
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Velvet Goldmine
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The Rookie
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Twilight
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Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Show Must Go On
From Freddie Mercury's operatic excess to the raw defiance of punk, this chain traces how cinema captures the transformative power of self-expression.
8 films
Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux
From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.
7 films
When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability
What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...
8 films
The Threshold of Nowhere
From a furniture store's hidden door to the endless corridors of the mind, this chain maps the liminal spaces where dread and wonder collide.
8 films
The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen
From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.
10 films
When Finishing Beats Winning
A chain of films where the protagonist loses the official contest but achieves a deeper, personal victory, redefining what it means to go the distance.
8 films
Wild Hearts: Feral Children and the Call of the Wild
From the forests of 18th-century France to the animated jungles of Mowgli, a journey through cinema's feral children and their quest for belonging.
7 films
Backers and Believers
From a resurrected cult classic to a record-breaking indie sensation, these eight films prove that crowdfunding isn't just about money, it's about community.
7 films
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Music
Wild Horse Nine
2026
The Banshees of Inisherin
2022
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
Missing Link
2019
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
Hail, Caesar!
2016
The Finest Hours
2016
Anomalisa
2015
Mr. Holmes
2015
Olive Kitteridge
2014
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
Seven Psychopaths
2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
Mildred Pierce
2011
True Grit
2010
The Kids Are All Right
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
Twilight
2008
Burn After Reading
2008
In Bruges
2008
No Country for Old Men
2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
Adaptation.
2002
S1m0ne
2002
The Rookie
2002
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
A Knight's Tale
2001
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
Being John Malkovich
1999
Three Kings
1999
Gods and Monsters
1998
Velvet Goldmine
1998
The Big Lebowski
1998
The Spanish Prisoner
1997
The Jackal
1997
Conspiracy Theory
1997
Fear
1996
Fargo
1996
Airheads
1994
It Could Happen to You
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
Wayne's World 2
1993
And the Band Played On
1993
Kalifornia
1993
This Boy's Life
1993
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
Doc Hollywood
1991
Barton Fink
1991
Miller's Crossing
1990
Raising Arizona
1987
Blood Simple
1985