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2010s Reviews

The Death of Stalin – Christopher Willis (2018)

April 23, 2019October 15, 2023

In 2018, director Armando Iannucci discovered long lost recordings of a great Soviet-era composer. He then used them to score his film, The Death of Stalin.  At least, composer Christopher Willis (Interview) believably convinces the audience of this discovery. To […]

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2010s Reviews

Mandy – Jóhann Jóhannsson (2018)

April 22, 2019October 2, 2021

Just before his tragic death in 2018, Jóhann Jóhannsson finished his swansong: the hopeful and tragic masterpiece Mandy. Mandy has two distinct tonal halves: one of hope, innocence, and encroaching menace, the other loss, despair, vengeance. Although the second half […]

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