Gary Lucas - Composing & Consulting For Film and Television

Composing & Consulting For Film and Television

Soundtracks and scores:

  • Cinefantastique (solo guitar arrangements of famous film music)
  • Sounds of the Surreal (live solo guitar score), 3 short French silent surrealist films by Rene Clair, Fernand Leger and Ladislaw Starewicz, commissioned by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
  • American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi an award-winning documentary on Condoleezza Rice, directed by Sebastian Doggart, additional scoring
  • Trust Me (a Showtime documentary, original score)
  • Bed and Breakfast 9/11 (an award-winning documentary shown on PBS)
  • The Legacy of Jedwabne (documentary by Slawomir Grunberg)
  • LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (an Oscar-nominated Maysles Films documentary for HBO, screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of their Maysles Films 50 Year Retrospective; Variety wrote: "Gary Lucas' Delta blues guitar music adds vivid color to this report from America's forgotten underbelly")
  • Monsters from the id (live scores to Lucas' favorite "nail biting," horror, sci-fi, and fantasy films), premiered 2006. Recently expanded to X-rated version, premiered in Kromeriz, Czech Republic.
  • Dragon Boys (Canadian "movie of the week") 2007.
  • The Golem (soundtrack for the 1920 silent film) performed in over 20 countries to date since its 1989 premiere.
  • The Unholy Three (original solo guitar score for the 1925 Tod Browning film of the same name, commissioned by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Premiered at Walter Reade Center, NYC, April 2009.
  • J'Accuse (live solo guitar score for Abel Gance's anti-war film of the same name) in collaboration with Dutch-Iranian composer Reza Namavar, commissioned by the Netherlands Holland Festival. To premiere in the Amsterdam Stadtsshouwburg, June 2009.
  • For Love and Honor (Erik Greenberg Anjou's documentary about American Ivy League collegiate football).
  • American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi (score, 2010)
  • El Angel Exterminador (live solo guitar score for Luis Buñuel's film), 33rd Havana Film Festival
  • Consultant for Greetings from Tim Buckley about Jeff Buckley's early days working in NYC, directed by Dan Algrant and starring Penn Badgley ("Gossip Girl") as Jeff. Character of Gary Lucas played by Tony Award winning actor Frank Wood. Lucas plays his own guitar parts for the film.
  • Spanish Dracula (soundtrack for the 1931 silent film); performed in Bilbao Spain at the Musiketan Festival, and in Lodz Poland's Festival Cinergia, November 2011.
  • This Night I will Possess Your Corpse (live solo guitar score for Jose MOjica Marins, aka Coffin Joe); debuted at Lincoln Center's LatinBeat Film Festival, Aug. 2011 for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and at SXSW in Texas March 17, 2012.
  • Vampyr (2012: currently working on soundtrack for the Carl Dreyer's 1932 silent film).

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