

If you can't wait for the film to hit theaters at Christmas time, a soundtrack CD on Nonesuch will precede the movie.

Though it's not widely known, Greenwood is no neophyte to orchestration, having done one film score before (for an experimental documentary called Bodysong), in addition to being commissioned by the BBC to compose a piece called ''Popcorn Superhet Receiver,'' which is excerpted in Blood and helped get him this gig. often abrasive, dissonant, disturbing, and always very loud strings.īlood marks a departure for both mavericks, though maybe even a little more so for Anderson, who'd never done a period piece before tackling this tale of a misanthropic oil man (Daniel Day-Lewis) in California at the turn of the last century. The director of such landmark films as Boogie Nights and Magnolia enlisted one of the main creative forces behind such landmark albums as OK Computer and Kid A to score the highly anticipated There Will Be Blood (opening Dec. Now, Anderson and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood have teamed up. Fill in ''music fans'' and ''bands'' in the above construction, and Radiohead is the no-brainer choice to end that sentence. Radiohead's guitarist), chat about their unique collaboration on December's historical epicĪt or near the top of most cinephiles' list of the most exciting filmmakers working today is Paul Thomas Anderson. ''There Will Be Blood'' director Paul Thomas Anderson and composer Jonny Greenwood (a.k.a. Entertainment Weekly, Written By Chris Willman
