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Jan 12

576: Hikari On The Music Of Rental Family

Our latest guest on Soundtracking is Hikari, co-writer and director of the heartwarming comedy drama, Rental Family. Starring Brendan Fraser, it tells tells the story of an American actor based in Japan, who takes a job with an agency that provides stand-in family members for str ... Show More

39m 30s

Jan 5

575: Hamnet Special: Chloé Zhao, Paul Mescal & Jessie Buckley

We have a Hamnet special for you on Soundtracking, as first writer / director Chloe Zhao and stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley join Edith. Based on Maggie O'Farrell's novel - who also worked on the script - it tells the story of how the horrendous tragedy that strikes Shakespe ... Show More

26m 26s

Dec 30

574: Paul Bettany & Will Sharpe On The Music Of Amadeus

Our last guests on Soundtracking are Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany, who join us to discuss Amadeus. Available to watch on Sky and Now TV, it’s a reworking of Peter Shaffer’s classic play, in which the precocious composer arrives in Vienna and soon makes an enemy of court composer ... Show More

28m 42s

Jul 2023

Hans Zimmer - Summer Staff Picks

Our staff picks continue at “Here’s The Thing,” where throughout the summer, members of our team select their favorite interviews from the archives. This week, we revisit Alec’s 2021 interview with Hans Zimmer, one of the most celebrated and successful film composers of all time. ... Show More

51m 23s

May 2021

Hans Zimmer Scores

<p>Hans Zimmer is one of the most celebrated and successful film composers of all time. He has scored more than 150 movies including Gladiator, Hannibal, Sherlock Holmes, The Last Samurai, the Thin Red Line, and many more. He won an Academy Award for Lion King and has earned 10 o ... Show More

50m 50s

Dec 2021

Tony Palmer Made the Original Behind the Music

<p>(Recorded in June 2021) Filmmaker Tony Palmer’s more than 100 documentaries have featured everyone from Cream to Stravinsky; Jimi Hendrix to Yehudi Menuhin; Leonard Cohen to Richard Wagner. He collaborated with Frank Zappa on the surreal cult-classic 200 Motels and with his fr ... Show More

44m 30s

Dec 2018

Producing Soundtrack Albums: an Interview with Mike Matessino (part II)

In part 2 of our interview, Mike Matessino candidly discusses the challenges facing the music industry, while sharing his insights into the popularity of film scores performed live. Some of his favorite soundtrack releases are discussed, and we get a sample of a new project Mike' ... Show More

46m 6s

Nov 2021

#491 — Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy Renner & Hailee Steinfeld

It's a very musical episode on the Empire Podcast this week. First up, Ben Travis geeks out over Disney musicals with the great Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the songs for the new animated musical Encanto, which debuts next Wednesday (November 24). Then Chris Hewitt sits down wit ... Show More

1h 48m

Jul 2020

BONUS: Movie Mike's Movie Podcast: Actors Who Really Sang In Movies + Actors Who Tricked Us With Lip-Syncing + Movie Review: Molly’s Game

In this episode, Movie Mike looks movies featuring actors playing a character who is singing on screen. He breaks down some famous actors whose real voices were actually featured in movies. And then breaks down actors who had someone else do the singing parts. Mike also reviews M ... Show More

29m 50s

Aug 2018

The Power of Song: an Interview with Disney Music President Chris Montan (Part II)

In part 2 of our interview with former Disney Music President Chris Montan, we discuss his work with legendary film composers like Hans Zimmer, Jerry Goldsmith, Randy Newman and more. Mr. Montan takes us back to the early days of Pixar, and describes how Toy Story invented their ... Show More

39m 35s

Dec 2019

Nicholas Britell

Emmy Award-winning composer, Nicholas Britell, is enjoying a moment right now. The Oscar-nominated talent behind the scores of films like “Moonlight,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Vice” and television series like “Succession” is as in-demand as they come, an artist who appro ... Show More

41m 48s

Dec 2021

Top Five Movie Soundtracks

It’s a music-movies team-up episode. Rob Harvilla returns to the show to talk about the art of the soundtrack and share his top five favorites (1:00). Then, Sean talks with John Maggio, who directed the latest entry in The Ringer’s Music Box film series on HBO. His movie, ‘Mr. Sa ... Show More

1h 19m

Mar 2023

David Cieri Scores Silent Film The Passion of Joan of Arc

Hear new music for silent film by composer David Cieri with his music for Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 silent film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc. Joan of Arc is said to have heard voices – strange, unearthly voices. So Cieri’s score, by turns visceral and transcendent, includes Sardinian ... Show More

32m 17s

Episode 224: Michael Price On Life & Mus...