Review: Alexandre Desplat’s Soundtrack
Posted on November 20, 2007 by Will

The “Film Music: The Neglected Art” blog have a review up of Alexandre Desplat’s score for The Golden Compass. The reviewer hails the soundtrack as “wonderful” and “one of the very best to be released in 2007”, deserving of an Oscar nomination. The main theme is described as possessing “mystery and intrigue setting the mood for the fantasy adventure” with similar praise for all tracks on the album. Kate Bush’s song, Lyra, is called a little cliche, but it will “certainly be a hit in the appropriate markets.” Read more.



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When Armored Bears Attack
Posted on November 20, 2007 by Will

IGN have posted an exclusive couple of clips from The Golden Compass movie. The first video is of Lyra at Trollesund, talking to Iorek (voiced by Ian McKellen) about his armor; the second shows the beginning of the fight between Iorek and Ragnar (Iofur) for the kingship of the bears. These are uninterrupted scenes from the film, so are more like spoilers than anything we’ve seen before – if you want to go into the film totally fresh, consider not watching them.





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The Golden Compass on TV
Posted on November 19, 2007 by Will

In the next few weeks there’s plenty of Golden Compass on TV coming your way. If you’re in the US, you can catch The Making of the Golden Compass at 9.45pm on HBO, Tuesday November 20th, with repeats throughout the week. You can watch the same programme in the UK on Saturday December 1st at 2.10pm on ITV3. If you don’t have digital, remember that ITV3 can be watched online.

And as if that wasn’t enough, you can see Daniel Craig on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross this Friday on BBC1. Jonathan will also be reviewing the movie on Film 2007, Saturday December 1st at 2.25pm.



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Alexandre Desplat’s Soundtrack Tracklist
Posted on November 17, 2007 by Will

Play.com have listed the Original Soundtrack for The Golden Compass, letting us know the tracklist for Alexandre Desplat’s score for the film. Click here to view the tracklist in full. The soundtrack album itself goes on sale on the 10th December.

The order of the tracks may also reveal the order of events in the film too. It seems that the bear fight has been moved earlier, so the film can end with the rescue at Bolvangar.

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The Golden Compass Videogame Music
Posted on November 17, 2007 by Will

Gamespy have a developer’s diary from the composer of the music for The Golden Compass videogame, Jaimie Christopherson. The score he wrote has nothing to do with Alexandre Desplat’s soundtrack for the film; Christopherson relates that “I didn’t try to guess what the film music might sound like, but instead treated this game as a completely different entity, which would require a unique voice separate from the film. […] Like any traditional overture, I wanted the theme to encapsulate everything that would happen in the game (or the movie), so there is a little suspense, a little drama, a little innocence and a lot of adventure.” Read more.

You can listen to two of the tracks from the game’s soundtrack right here:

Lyra’s theme (download)

Menu music (download)



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