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ecame internationally recognized when Steven Spielberg chose her to costume
“Schindler’s List.”
This painful territory was revisited more recently when she designed the costumes
for Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist.”
Since “Schindler’s List,” her career has been largely in the West, achieving a range
of credits including “Washington Square,” “The Wisdom of Crocodiles,” Michael Mann’s
contemporary drama “The Insider” starring Russell Crowe. She returned to the subject of
World War II when Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks asked her to design the costumes
for their miniseries, “Band of Brothers.” Her recent credits include “Shanghai Knights”
and “Around the World in 80 Days,” both with Jackie Chan.
CLINT MANSELL (music by) has emerged to become one of the most innovative
film composers in the last five years. Beginning with Darren Aronofsky’s groundbreaking
“Pi” in 1998, and continuing nonstop ever since, Mansell has begun to establish a unique
musical vision and style that transcends the boundaries of conventional film music,
through such films as “Requiem for a Dream,” “Abandon” and “Murder by Numbers.”
As the lead vocalist and guitarist of the pioneering British band Pop Will Eat Itself,
Mansell quickly became known as something of a musical renegade. Fusing pop, rock and
rap, the band began an underground revolution that was to influence the international
musical landscape, eventually gaining the attention of Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails),
who signed the band to his own label in 1994. Shortly after the group disbanded in 1996,
Mansell moved to New York to begin the next phase of his career. It was then that he met
filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (“Pi,” “Requiem for a Dream”) and the two began what
would become a close creative collaboration. His most recent film score was “Suspect
Zero.”
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