Vale – Wojciech Kilar

Legendary Polish composer Wojciech Kilar, who scored well over a hundred films, has passed away.

Mr Kilar is best known to Western audiences for his work with Roman Polanksi, Francis Ford Coppola and Jane Campion, scoring their films The Pianist (as well as The Ninth Gate, and Death & The Maiden), Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and The Portrait Of A Lady respectively. Kilar has been scoring films since the 60’s, with many Polish film credits to his name under directors such as Krzysztof Kieslowski and Andrzej Wajda (among others), as well as numerous classical compositions including sonatas and symphonies.

Mr Kilar passed away on December 29th, aged 81, from cancer.

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Rodney Twelftree

“Some people say I like films. Those people are wrong. I *love* films.” – Me. I said this.

Rodney has been writing about films for well over two decades, appreciates a good wine, the love of his wife and kids, and the affection of his dog and cats. He has a fondness of cheesy 90’s action and classic Hollywood, hates that physical media is disappearing, and wishes somebody would make a high-budget series of The Neverending Story.

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