As 2023 starts to close, and the awards season begins to heat up, I’m joined with the composer for what’s being widely hailed as one of the best film scores of the year: Jerskin Fendrix. Jerskin’s latest score is for […]
Experimental composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman) joins The Film Scorer podcast in the midst of the year-end blitz. Rob’s latest score is for the vérité-style documentary Grasshopper Republic. As such, we spend much of the conversation talking about, and […]
I’m getting closer and closer to having conducted one hundred composer interviews, and yet I don’t think I’ve ever covered a Marvel score in one (let alone any superhero score). With Laura Karpman (Ms. Marvel, What If…?) joining the show, […]
I’ve been familiar with Yair Elazar Glotman ever since I heard his score for Last and First Men, which he co-composed with the great Jóhann Jóhannsson. As such, it’s great to finally have him on the show! Yair and I […]
I can only laugh and chastise myself that I’m writing this column – about the best film scores of January 2023 – in November. Let’s just say that this series has somewhat fallen by the wayside… With that out of […]
Warm, bright synths drone on; birds chirp, gleefully; footage of blooming flowers rolls on. An idyllic, calming ambience. But what if the hands that planted those flowers were also stained with blood? In Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener, Narvel Roth (played […]
In this somewhat Halloween-flavored episode, Rostam Batmanglij (Rostam) (ex-Vampire Weekend, The OA) joins the show! Rostam and I primarily talk about his new score for the feature film The Persian Version. Rostam’s score is quite subtle and restrained, marrying ancient […]
To keep the newly-launched season 4 momentum rolling, I’m joined by composer Christopher Willis! Chris is actually responsible for some of my favorite scores in recent years, like The Death of Stalin and The Personal History of David Copperfield, as […]
Perhaps knowing that I’m a fan of folk music (though maybe not knowing that way back when, some of my family immigrated to the US from Finland), composer Tom Nettleship has been feeding me snippets about the forthcoming folk-influenced score […]
Season 4 is here! Charlie Clouser (the Saw series, Nine Inch Nails) joins the show to kick-off the latest season. Charlie and I talk about not just his score for the latest Saw film – Saw X – but his […]
The end is nigh…of summer, I mean. If you tuned in to part one of this series, you will have been introduced to a handful of scores picked by yours truly as the excitement of summer was just on the […]
Even though Season 3 is over and Season 4 has yet to begin, The Film Scorer podcast returns with a new interview. This time, I’m joined by composer Sherri Chung! Sherri (Riverdale, Kung Fu) and I intended to chat about […]