Jon Burlingame editorCarter Burwell has scored 19 of the movies of Joel and Ethan Coen, including such classics as “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “No Country for Old Men,” yet he’s never been nominated for a major industry award for any of that music.
That could change this year with his dark and disturbing sounds for Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.What did Joel say he was looking for in the music?One thing he knew he didn’t want: He didn’t want it to be Scottish.
It’s all shot on soundstages, and fairly surreal ones, and that’s the way I took it – not as a physical reality but as a psychological reality.
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