Jonny Greenwood’s office/recording studio/weeping willow beneath which he composes evocative, sensitive music is like the figurative Pearly Gates of Film Scores; you kill yourself working on some movie, spend some time wandering around in a bunch of clouds with singing people (I have no metaphor for what this is, but it obviously just has to be part of the narrative), and then you make your approach to the Big Man himself. If he says yes, it’s a one-way ticket to Film Score Heaven. If he says no, well, fuck your movie. It’s all sensitive coffee shop guitar guys and Skrillex beats for your crappy movie soundtrack.
But Paul Thomas Anderson has been a very good boy here in this cinema veil of sin, so it’s no wonder that FACT are reporting that he and Jonny will be frolicking through the heavens together once again for his forthcoming film Inherent Vice. Based on the Thomas Pynchon novel about seedy 60s Los Angeles (is there another kind?), the flick stars Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Jena Malone, Martin Short, and Maya Rudolph. Greenwood has worked on Anderson’s previous two films, There Will Be Blood and Philip Seymour Hoffman-starring The Master (TMT Review). Greenwood’s score will be recorded by London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra later this month, with the film itself set to hit the festival circuit later this year.
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