Conrad Pope
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Grounded in the elegant compositions of classical composer Benjamin Britten, whose majestic choral Noyes Fludde ignites the film's young lovers, Moonrise Kingdom Original Soundtrack features masterworks performed by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, as well as popular gems by the legendary country troubadour Hank Williams. Score by the award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat. Additional percussion compositions by Mark Mothersbaugh....
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Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did seventeenth century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning ten years, his adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer...
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In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.