2016 repress on cherry cola vinyl! Nightcrawler marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Dan Gilroy, and stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a man drawn into the shady world of freelance crime journalism in Los Angeles (hence its title). Early buzz for the film is very positive. The director’s brother Tony Gilroy is himself a writer/director and has worked with composer James Newton Howard on several occasions, Michael Clayton, Duplicity and The Bourne Legacy, so it’s no great surprise to find the family connection leading to the composer cropping up here too.
It’s been a wonderful year for the composer, with Maleficent his strongest score in recent memory (possibly ever), but of course this film demands an entirely different style. You never quite know what you’re going to get from Howard – I don’t think there’s ever been another major film composer who has gone through such a wide range of styles (of course lots of other film composers have written in a wide range of styles, but not like Howard, with no real sign of consistency of individual voice between them) and such a wide range of quality, with his music as likely to be dull and sometimes worse than that as it is to be compositionally and emotionally soaring and inspired.A1 Nightcrawler A2 Lou's Inspired A3 Driving At Night A4 Sell The Bike A5 Loder Crashes A6 KWLA A7 The First Accident A8 Day To Night A9 Pictures On The Fridge A10 The First Night A11 Entering The House A12 Edit On The Hood A13 Lou And Rick On A Roll A14 Driving At Night, Again A15 Waiting A16 Mount Wilson B1 The Wrong Way B2 Watching The House Footage B3 Lou's Philosophy B4 Making The News B5 Search For The Plate B6 The Newscast B7 Moving The Body B8 Chinatown Express B9 Nina And Frank B10 The Shootout B11 Lou's Free B12 If It Bleeds It Leads
