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Cliff Martinez

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Biography

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Drive

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Contagion

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Limey

Appears in a KinoChain journey

War Dogs

Original Music Composer

Den of Thieves

Original Music Composer

Game Night

Original Music Composer

Too Old to Die Young

Original Music Composer

Traffic

Original Music Composer

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Neon Fog and the Long Way Home

From Thief's rain-slicked streets to Drive's neon avenues, a journey through neo-noir night drives where every turn tests the driver's moral compass.

8 films

When the World Catches Cold

From Contagion's clinical dread to the surreal end of days, a chain of films about outbreaks, science, and the fraying of society.

7 films

The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws

There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...

8 films

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