The somewhat obscure English cannibal horror film Death Line (known as Raw Meat in the US) boasts one of the great opening tracks in film music. Blurred, grainy shots of seedy burlesque clubs meld with “Main Theme.” A fat, echoing […]
Composer Jay Wadley joins The Film Scorer to talk about his score to I’m Thinking of Ending Things. As they had a limited amount of time (compared to most other interviews), the two go in-depth into the score, discussing how […]
Composer Roman Molino Dunn joins The Film Scorer to talk about his score to the new psychological drama Huracán, about an mma fighter struggling with dissociative disorder. They also discuss Dunn’s composing process, sampling the sounds of subways, and a […]
Kick off the new year with a great set of film score releases. While synth-based scores may have dominated the month, Howard Shore has released a haunting new orchestral score and Thomas Newman has released a jazz-leaning crime thriller. With […]
Composer Nainita Desai joins the show to talk about her new score to the feature documentary The Reason I Jump, as well as her composing process, the differences between scoring for film, tv, and documentaries, and the role of awards acclaim […]
After a prolonged absence, 2021’s award season is finally here, starting with the 78th Golden Globe Awards. Although the Golden Globes are renowned for making some surprising (or downright bizarre) nominations, this year’s nominations for Best Original Score were fairly […]
A new year has started, which means it’s time to run through the “best” film scores of 2020! If you don’t want to read through the process, scroll down to listen to the podcast or scroll even further to get […]
Experimental composer and musician Tom Hodge joins to talk about his latest film score: The Mauritanian. It is a Golden Globe nominated political and legal drama starring Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, and Benedict Cumberbatch. We also talk about various and historical […]
While November was a somewhat slower month than normal for film music releases, December proved to be the opposite. In fact, there were far too many scores to cover (and almost too many to even keep track of!) and four […]
Composer Reed Reimer joins The Film Scorer Podcast. They talk about Reed’s recent cyberpunk multimedia project Codeburst, juggling genres from orchestral to djent to trap, and collaborating with a co-composer. Reed also flips the script and takes over as interviewer […]
Sometimes the critical and commercial failure of a film can overshadow its strong points. Such is the case with Capone, whose score by legendary rapper and produce El-P is among the film’s saving graces. I was, admittedly, cautious of how […]
November proved to be a somewhat slower month than normal, the calm before December’s great deluge of excellent scores. This isn’t to say that November’s scores were bad, not at all – the month was still filled with plenty of […]