Cold Mountain

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Cold Mountain is a novel by Charles Frazier, which was adapted by Anthony Minghella into a film in 2003. Minghella subsequently directed the film. The movie stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Natalie Portman. Rock musician Jack White also had a role in the film. Although set in the Southern United States, it was mostly filmed in the Transylvania region of Romania.

The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for:

Law plays a Confederate soldier named W. P. Inman, fed up with war, who starts off on foot for his home on Cold Mountain, in North Carolina, and the woman he loves, Ada (Kidman). But Ada is a city woman who only recently moved to the rural farm where her minister father has recently died, and struggles to keep the farm going with the help of Ruby (Zellweger).

Cold Mountain is a mountain in North Carolina, in the Appalachian Mountains. It is located in the Pisgah National Forest and is very suitable for hiking, on the Art Loeb Trail.

The film begins with a vivid re-creation of the Battle of the Crater.

W. P. Inman (first names William Pinkney, although this is not mentioned in the film) was a real person from Cold Mountain who served in the Confederate Army, from which he deserted twice, and is reputedly buried in a local cemetery. His descendants still live in the area. [1]

The film was one of an increasing number of Hollywood productions made in eastern Europe, chiefly because of much lower costs in the region but in this specific instance because Transylvania was less marked by modern life than the Appalachians (fewer power lines, telephone poles, paved roads and so on). This caused some controversy in North Carolina, although in fact an estimated 95 percent of feature films and television shows made in the state since the 1980s were set somewhere else.

The film also marked a technological and industry turnaround in editing. Murch edited Cold Mountain on Apple's sub-$1000 Final Cut Pro software using off the shelf G4's. This was a leap for such a big budgeted film, where expensive Avid systems are usually the standard NLE tool. His efforts on the film were documented in the 2005 book Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema.

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Soundtrack

The Cold Mountain soundtrack shares producers (T Bone Burnett) with the soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou, a largely bluegrass album with limited radio play that still enjoyed commercial success, and garnered a Grammy. As a result, comparisons were drawn between the two albums. Cold Mountain, however, also features folk and blues influence. It features songs written by Jack White (of White Stripes fame), Elvis Costello and even Sting, the latter two having their songs sung by Allison Krauss (who also appeared on the O Brother... soundtrack).

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Tracklisting

{{Album infobox | Name = Cold Mountain Soundtrack | Type = Soundtrack | Artist = Various Artists | Cover = nocover.gif|200px | Background = | Released = December 16, 2003 | Recorded = | Genre = Country/Folk | Length = | Label = Sony | Producer = T Bone Burnett | Reviews = Rolling Stone Image:3 out of 5.png link | | Last album = | This album = | Next album = }}

  1. Wayfaring Stranger - Jack White
  2. Like A Songbird That Has Fallen - Reeltime Travelers
  3. I Wish My Baby Was Born - Tim Eriksen, Riley Baugus and Tim O'Brien
  4. The Scarlet Tide - Alison Krauss
  5. The Cuckoo - Tim Eriksen and Riley Baugus
  6. Sittin' On Top Of The World - Jack White
  7. Am I Born To Die? - Tim Eriksen
  8. You Will Be My Ain True Love - Alison Krauss
  9. I'm Going Home - Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church
  10. Never Far Away - Jack White
  11. Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Jack White
  12. Ruby With The Eyes That Sparkle - Stuart Duncan and Dirk Powell
  13. Lady Margret - Cassie Franklin
  14. Great High Mountain - Jack White
  15. Anthem - Gabriel Yared
  16. Ada Plays - Gabriel Yared
  17. Ada And Inman - Gabriel Yared
  18. Love Theme - Gabriel Yared
  19. Idumea - Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church
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