Picture this: a windswept desert stretching endlessly beneath a scorching sun. Amid the shimmering heat, two figures appear. One, guarded and stubborn, is an expert in the ways of the desert. The other, an outsider to this alien world, carries […]
Ahead of the premiere of the third and final season of Squid Game, I chat with the show’s composer, Jung Jae-Il (Parasite, Mickey 17). Obviously Jae-Il and I spend much of the conversation talking about Squid Game, including the palette, […]
Composers Leo Birenberg & Zach Robinson join The Film Scorer Podcast to round out the unofficial (and accidental) trilogy of duo interviews (joining Meg Remy & Grace Glowicki and Aaron May & David Ridley). Leo and Zach are fresh off […]
Recent films like Warfare and shows like Adolescence (Interview) and The Pitt have got me thinking about the effectiveness of a lack of music. When something is shown in real time (e.g. Adolescence) or has a visceral immediacy (e.g. Warfare), […]
For my second of three consecutive duo interviews, I chat with composers Aaron May and David Ridley. While they’ve been composing together for a while, their biggest project is also their most recent – the viral Netflix series Adolescence, from […]
By this point a lot of you have seen the news that Cristobal Tapia de Veer won’t be returning to score The White Lotus. Those of you that read Cristo’s interview with the New York Times also know that this […]
Although we’re now a couple months into 2025, I finally present you with the “best” film scores of 2024. As usual, there are some very mainstream scores in here that most observers would agree with and there are a few […]
It’s a bit worrying to realize that we’re now over halfway through the 2020s – where has the time gone? Well, I suppose we all know one collective reason why it feels like a blur… But rather than lament the […]
In an absolute coincidence, during International Women’s Month Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) and Grace Glowicki join me on The Film Scorer Podcast! Our primary focus is the film Dead Lover, for which Grace is director, co-writer, and lead actress and […]
Rihards Zalupe joins The Film Scorer Podcast! Rihards’ latest score is for the Oscar and BAFTA nominated animated film Flow, which he co-composed with the film’s writer and director Gints Zilbalodis. As such, Rihards and I spend much of our […]
Although the calendar says January 2025, our monthly score countdown is stuck in April 2024. Lucky for us, this happens to be home for some of the best scores of the year, including Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s Back to […]
In a quick 1-2 punch after talking with Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist), Bryce Dessner (The National, The Revenant, The Two Popes) joins The Film Scorer podcast! Bryce released two scores last year, for the films Sing Sing and We Live […]