Carter Burwell

Carter Burwell appears in the following:

The Big Picture: Carter Burwell on Composing the Score for 'The Banshees of Inisherin'

Wednesday, February 08, 2023

We kick off The Big Picture learning about how Carter Burwell composed the score for 'The Banshees of Inisherin'.

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Terms of Art: Film Composer Lingo with Carter Burwell

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Carter Burwell teaches Kurt how to talk like a film composer.

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Sounds of the Western

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Carter Burwell’s music for the Coen Brothers’ film True Grit turns its back on the legacy of film composer Ennio Morricone, whose scores for Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti Westerns” set the tone for genre's post-60s films. We’ll talk with Burwell about True Grit’s unlikely inspiration. And we’ll get a look at how the film fits into the canon of Westerns with Kathryn Kalinak, author of the book How the West Was Sung.

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Carter Burwell and Maya Beiser

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Film composer Carter Burwell has had a storied career as a film composer for the past two decades. Known for his longtime collaboration with the Coen Brothers and Spike Jonze in which he has scored all their films, including their latest, A Serious Man and Where The Wild Things Are, ...

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Behind the 'girl next door' Doris Day

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Hollywood starlet Doris Day was a household name back in the 1950s and 1960s and while she withdrew from public life shortly thereafter, she is still the top-ranking female box-office star of all time. We look at her career with a Doris Day biographer and hear songs inspired by Day's ...