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Philadelphia Inquirer: "There Will Be Blood" Score Signals Great Things for Greenwood
7, Jan 06, 2008
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Dan DeLuca says that Jonny Greenwood's There Will Be Blood score is a must-have for die-hard Radiohead fans. DeLuca writes that with the score, Greenwood "extends Radiohead's art rock into the classical realm." The reviewer calls the music "a natural extension of the Radiohead aesthetic as well as a harbinger of a busy-as-he-wants-to-be movie-music-making career for Greenwood."
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Entertainment Weekly: Greenwood's "Revolutionary" Score an Equal Star in "There Will Be Blood"
3, Jan 02, 2008
In her "A" review of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum cites Jonny Greenwood's score in particular for helping to create "a complete universe" in the "towering new American epic and instant modern classic." She praises the film's lead, Daniel Day-Lewis, for giving "a magnificent performance" but calls Greenwood "as much the star of the show as Day-Lewis himself" for his having created a "revolutionary musical score ... like nothing we have ever heard before."
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Village Voice: Greenwood's "Excellent" "There Will Be Blood" Score Complements Film
2, Dec 25, 2007
Of all the efforts at big-scale movie storytelling over the past several months, writes J. Hoberman in the Village Voice, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood is "the one that packs the strongest movie-movie wallop." He continues: "This is truly a work of symphonic aspirations and masterful execution. Anderson's superb filmmaking is complemented throughout by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's excellent score—at once modernist and rhapsodic, full of discordant excitements, outer-space siren trills, and the rumble of distant thunder ... There's hardly a dull moment."
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
MTV: Jonny Greenwood's "There Will Be Blood" Score Is "Wonderful"
2, Dec 25, 2007
MTV's Kurt Loder says that Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood is among the "wonderful" parts of Paul Thomas Anderson's new film. Loder calls Anderson's decision to hire Greenwood an "audacious" one, and one that paid off, with the end result an outstanding work independent of the film for which it was written: "The music is an orchestral wash of beautifully harmonized melodies spiked with thoroughly modern dissonance, and while it's a jarring accompaniment for some of the imagery, it stands on its own as a series of superbly astringent compositions."
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Newsday: Greenwood's "Stunning" Score Adds to "Exhilarating" "There Will Be Blood"
4, Dec 20, 2007
The "exhilarating" and "intoxicating epic" There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis is "the watershed achievement" of both their careers, says Newsday's four-star review of the film. Its central conflict, between the "electrifying adversaries" of Day-Lewis's rapacious oilman, Daniel Plainview, and co-star Paul Dano's single-minded preacher, Eli Sunday, is "magnificently heightened" by Jonny Greenwood's "stunning" score.
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Reuters Cites Contribution of Greenwood's "Captivating" Score to "There Will Be Blood"
2, Dec 18, 2007
In his review of There Will Be Blood for Reuters news service, John DeFore writes that Jonny Greenwood's "captivating" score is an important player in the film, "greatly contributing to the sense that tectonic forces lie beneath the drama."
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Slant Magazine: Jonny Greenwood's Score Is Soul of Year's Best Film
1, Dec 17, 2007
With There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson has reached new heights of artistry in his work, says the four-star Slant film review. And it's Jonny Greenwood's music "that gives There Will Be Blood its throbbing, pulsating soul ... Greenwood's musical accompaniment is a thing of dark majesty, brilliantly in sync with the omnipresent forces—anger, resentment, jealousy, covetousness, insanity—trying violently, desperately to bubble to the surface."
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Jonny Greenwood's "Entrancing" Score Is Something New for Film
1, Dec 17, 2007
"[W]hen you hear something as audaciously new as There Will Be Blood," writes iF magazine, "it’s a listening experience akin to coming across an oil gusher in a movie theater—the kind that blows your seat (and ears) to the ceiling with the sheer, often-insane beauty of what you’re hearing." With an originality that "spurts in spades," Jonny Greenwood has created an "entrancing" score. "Greenwood shows he can do orchestra with the same innovative quality that he approaches Radiohead’s trance-rock with ... And like P.T Anderson’s best soundtracks, Greenwood achieves a musical f-you wallop that grabs our attention ... [W]e feel that Anderson and Greenwood have taken us on a journey into sound that’s truly new for film scoring." The film "offers a major discovery in the talents of Jonny Greenwood."
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Greenwood's "There Will Be Blood" Score Finds Film's Emotional Core
3, Dec 12, 2007
Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood was recently acclaimed in a Los Angeles Times article as signaling "new heights of inspiration" for director Paul Thomas Anderson's use of music in film. In this week's Time Out London, writer Sharon O'Connell further explores the interplay between movies and music in her review of Greenwood's score, saying: "[A] soundtrack needs to be so dynamic as to propel or even predict a narrative/mood, to be aesthetically empathetic to the nth degree and yet, it must guard against standing out from the movie like a large pair of creatively aggressive bollocks. That's a tall order ... Jonny Greenwood has long since proven himself up to the task."
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Variety: Greenwood's Music Marks Return of the Epic Score
2, Dec 11, 2007
"These are flush times artistically for film music," says Variety, "with epic scores back in vogue and newer voices only growing in authority." First in this new filmic new wave is Jonny Greenwood's music for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, calling it "a darkly haunting orchestral tapestry willfully indebted to some of the great composers of the 20th century."