(Last Exit to Brooklyn), who also wrote the screenplay with Aronofsky. Requiem for a Dream is adapted from the 1978 novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby, Jr. Mansell, in commenting on his work with director Aronofsky and Kronos Quartet said, “In a homogenized world of brand names and mass production, a world where art is always at odds with commerce, it is unbelievably gratifying to work with artists such as Darren Aronofsky and the Kronos Quartet, whose desire to go beyond the norm, beyond the expected, is not tempered by the desire to be commercially palatable.” Mansell’s score for Requiem for a Dream serves to intensify the wide range of emotions that permeate the film. He is also working on his debut solo album. Since 1997 Mansell has produced one record, has completed several remixes, and is currently writing and recording the score for the upcoming film Knockaround Guys, starring John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper and Vin Diesel. Mansell’s new score includes performances by Kronos Quartet, with arrangements by David Lang, one of the founders of Bang on a Can.īritish composer/musician Clint Mansell, a former front man and founding member of the pioneering English rock/hip hop band Pop Will Eat Itself, composed the mostly-electronic score for Requiem for a Dream this year, three years since completing new music for Darren Aronofsky’s critically acclaimed feature debut p. The film, released through Artisan Entertainment, stars Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly and Marlon Wayans.
In his second collaboration with Darren Aronofsky, acclaimed director of the 1997 film pi, composer CLINT MANSELL has written original music for Aronofsky’s current project, Requiem for a Dream.
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