Hal Willner Music Supervisor
FILMS (As Music Supervisor, Producer or Composer)
Meskada Red Flag Releasing
Director: Josh Sternfeld
Producers: Jen Gatien, Michael Goodin, Jay Kubassek
Starring: Nick Stahl, Rachel Nichols, Kellan Lutz
Howl Oscilloscope Pictures
Director: Rob Epstein
Producers: Jeffrey Friedman, Elizabeth Redleaf, Christine K. Walker
Starring: James Franco, Mary-Louise Parker, Jon Hamm
Step Brothers Columbia Pictures
Director: Adam McKay
Producers: Judd Apatow, Jimmy Miller
Starring: Will Ferrell, Adam Scott, Mary Steenburgen, John C. Reilly
Lou Reed’s Berlin Maximum Film Distribution
Director: Julian Schnabel
Producers: Stanley F. Buchthal, Maya Hoffmann
Starring: Lou Reed, Emmanuelle Seigner
The Ground Truth Focus Features
Director: Patricia Foulkrod
Producers: Patricia Foulkrod, Daniela Taplin Lundberg
Starring: Herold Noel, Charles Anderson, Kelly Dougherty, Robert Acosta
Talladega Nights Sony Pictures
Director: Adam McKay
Producer: Judd Apatow, Adam McKay & Will Ferrell
Starring: Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen & John C. Reilly
Bewitched (Consultant) Columbia
Director: Nora Ephron
Producer: Bobby Cohen, Steve Berman & Penny Marshall
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrall & Michael Caine
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy (Consultant) DreamWorks
Director: Adam McKay
Producer: Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson
Starring: Will Ferrell & Christina Applegate
Finding Forrester Sony Pictures
Director: Gus Van Sant
Producer: Sean Connery, Laurence Mark, & Danny Wolf
Starring: Sean Connery, Anna Paquin & Rob Brown
The Million Dollar Hotel Independent
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Bono, Bruce Davey, Deepak Navar
Starring: Mel Gibson, Donal Logue, & Milla Jovovic
Kansas City Fine Line Films
Director: Robert Altman
Producers: Robert Altman & Scott Bushnell
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh & Miranda Richardson
Los Angeles Film Critics Award – Music
Therenin – An Electronic Odyssey Orion Films
Director: Steve Martin
September Songs Rhombus Pictres
Director: Larry Weinstein
Short Cuts Fine Line Films
Director: Robert Altman
Producer: Cary Brokaw & Scott Bushnell
Starring: Tim Robbins & Andie MacDowell
Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters (Composer/Producer) Infinity Pictures
Director: Greg Ford & Terry Lennon
Voices: Mel Blanc & Julie Bennett
Heavy Petting (Music Researcher) Norman Lear Productions
Director: Obie Benz
Night of the Living Duck Warner Bros.
Director: Greg Ford & Terry Lennon
voices: Mel Blanc & Mel Torme
Heaven (Music Researcher) Fine Line Films
Director: Diane Keaton
The Duxorcist (Composer/Producer) Warner Bros.
Director: Greg Ford & Terry Lennon
Voices: Mel Blanc & BJ Ward
Candy Mountain (Music Producer/Supervisor) Low Road Production
Directors: Robert Frank & Rudy Wurlitzer
Producers: Anthony Bregman, Ted Hope & Spike Jonze
Starring: Tim Robbins & Patricia Arquette
TELEVISION
Saturday Night Live – 1980-present, Sketch Music Adaptations NBC
Night Music – Music Producer NBC
Happily Ever After – Music Supervisor HBO
Encyclopedia – Music Supervisor HBO
RECORDINGS (as Producer)
Marianne Faithfull – Easy Come, Easy Go Decca
Lucinda Williams – West Lost Highway Records
Rogue’s Gallery – Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys Epitaph Records
Various artists, with Bono, Richard Thompson, Baby Gramps, Joseph Arthur, Jarvis Cocker, Sting, Bryan Ferry, Loudon Wainright III, John C. Reilly,
Nick Cave and others
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Various artists, with Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Laurie Andreson,
Jarvis Cocker; Anthony, Annie and Kate McGarrigle; Leonard Cohen with
U2 and more
Bill Frisell – Unspeakable (Grammy Award Winner, Best Jazz Album)
Laurie Anderson – Life On a String Nonesuch Records
Lou Reed – Ecstacy Warner Brothers Records
Let the Buyer Beware Rhino Records
A 6 CD Box Set encapsulating Lenny Bruce’s Career
Kathy Aker – My Mother/Demonology Mercury/Mouth Almighty Records
Bob Holman – Bob Holman Mercury/Mouth Almighty Records
The Kansas City Band – Kansas City After Dark Verve Records
Volume 2 of the music from the film Kansas City
Poems and Tales of Edgar Allen Poe – Closed On Account of Rabies Mercury/Mouth Almighty Records
Various artists including: Marianne Faithul, Christopher Walken, Iggy Pop,
Gavin Friday, Jeff Buckley, Deborah Harry, Gabriel Byrne, & Dr. John
September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill Sony/CBS Masterworks
With Nick Cave, David Johansen, Elvis Costello, The Brodsky Quartet, Teresa
Stratus, Betty Carter, Charlie Hade, Lou Reed & William S. Burroughs
Various Artist – Kansas City Verve Records
Soundtrack to Robert Altman’s film with Joshua Redman, James Carter
Nicholas Payton, David “Fathead” Newman, Geri Allen, Cyrus Chestnutt, Kevin
Mohaganny, Craig Handy, Don Byron, Ulu Dara, James Zollar, Ron Carter
Christian McBride & Jesse Davis.
Allen Ginsberg – The Lion For Real Mercury/Mouth Almighty Records
3rd issue of album, featuring Bill Frisell, Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, Lenny Pickett,
Beaver Harris, Rob Wasserman, Gary Windo, Michael Blair, Ralph Carney
Steve Swallow and Todd Rundgren
Jazz Passengers – In Love High Street/Windham Hill Records
With Jimmy Scott, Deborah Harry, Jeff Buckley & Mavis Staples
The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2 Warner Bros. Records
Allen Ginsberg – Holy Soul Jelly Roll Rhino Records
Spanish Fly – Spanish Fly Knitting Factory Works
Charles Mingus – Thirteen Portraits (Compilation) Rhino Records
Various Artists – Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus Colombia/Sony Records
With Henry Threadgill, Robbie Robertson, Bill Frisell, Elvis Costello, Vernon Reid,
Don Byron, Chuck D., Leonard Cohen, Diamanda Galas, Hubert Selby Jr.,
Henry Rollins & Dr. John
William Burroughs – Spare Ass Annie & Other Tales Island Records
Co-produced with the Disposable Hereos of HipHoprisy
David Sanborn – Another Hand Elektra Records
Various Artists – Shortcuts Imago Records
Soundtrack to the Robert Altman film with Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Iggy Pop
& Michael Stipe
The Carl Stalling Project Warner Bros. Recrds
William S. Burroughs – Dead City Radio Island Records
Co-produced with Nelson Lyon, starring Donald Fagen, Sonic Youth & John Cale
Lori Carson – Shelter DGC Records
Lenny Picket & The Borneo Horns (self titled) Carthage Records
Marianne Faithful – Blazing Away Island Records
Gavin Friday – Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves Island Records
Various Artists – Stay Awake : Interpretations of Composition from the Films of Walt Disney A&M Records
With Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant, Los Lobos, Tom Waits, Suzanne Vega, Buster Poindexter, Ima Sumac, Aaron Neville, Garth Hudson, NRBQ, Betty Carter, The Replacements, Sun Ra, Harry Nilsson, James Taylor, Ringo Starr, Sinead O’Conner
Marianne Faithful – Strange Weather Island Records
Lost In The Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill A&M Records
Joe Piscopo & Eddie Murphy – Honeymooner’s Rap Columbia Records
Beaver Harris/Don Pullen 260 Degree Experience A Well Kept Secret Shemp/Hannibal records
That’s The Way I Feel Now – A Tribute to Thelonious Monk A&M Records
With Gil Evans, Bobby McFerrin, Joe Jackson, Peter Frampton, John Zorn, Randy
Weston, Todd Rundgren, Steve Lacy, Barry Harris, Carla Bley, Donald Fagen
NRBQ, Dr. John, Johnny Griffen, Was (Not Was), Elvin Jones, Chris Spedding,
Willie Ruff and Shockabilly.
Gary Windo – Dogface Antilles Records
Swollen Monkeys – Afterbirth of Cool Cachelot/Jem Records
Various Artists – Amarcord Nino Rota Hannibal/Rykodisk Records
Featuring Jaki Byard, Deborah Harry, Wytnon Marsalis, Muhal Richard Abrams
and Carla Bley
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Lou Reed – Berlin 2008 Summer European tour
Stay Awake – 20th anniversary of the classic recording of Disney songs.
Premiere: Jarvis Cocker’s Meltdown Festival: London 6/2007.
April 2008 – St. Anne’s, Brooklyn
October 2008 – UCLA Royce Hall
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man-tribute Sydney Opera House, 2006
Shock & Awe: The Songs of Randy Newman UCLA Royce Hall 2005
Dream Comfort Memory Despair: An Evening of Songs by Neil Young Celebrate Brooklyn Festival, 2004
Perfect Partners: Frederico Fellini and Nino Rota The Barbican, London, 2004
Edgar Allan Poe – Never Bet the Devil Your Head 2002 Royce Hall UCLA
Performance by: Lou Reed, Antony and the Johnson, Harry Shearer, Chloe Webb,
Will Ferrell and Karen Black
Edgar Allan Poe – Closed on Account of Rabies 2001 Royce Hall
Perfomances by Antony and the Johnson, Elysioan Fields, Mark Mothersbauh,
Van Dyke Parks, Chris Parnell, Eric Roberts, Syd Straw and Cloe Webb.
Harry Smith Tribute 2001 Royce Hall, & 1999 at The Palladum, London
Performances by: Beck. Elvis Costello, Earle, Mariane Faithful, Philip Glass, and David
Van Dyke Parks.
Whoops, I’m An Indian 1999 Central Park, New York
Edgar Allen Poe 1998, St. Anne’s Church, Brooklyn, New York
Marquis De Sade 1998 Poetry Project at St. Mark’s New York
Tribute to Allen Ginsberg, (co-producer) Wadsworth Theater, Los Angeles
Nevermore – Poems & Stories of Edgar Allan Poe 1995, St. Anne’s
Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Allen Ginsberg & Friends Wicthita Vortex Sutra
Poetry project at St. Mark’s, N.Y.
Garth Hudson & Friends 1990, St. Annes Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Marianne Faithfull & The St. Luke Orchestra 1989 St. Anne’s Church
Brooklyn New York
Greetings From Tim Buckley 1991, St. Anne’s Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Marianne Faithful 1987 Bottom Line, N.Y.