To celebrate his first full-length tv series score, Gareth Coker joins The Film Scorer podcast! You video game fans in particular may know Gareth from his work scoring games like Ori, Ark, and Halo Infinite, but Gareth hasn’t stopped there. […]
I’ve been watching a lot of action movies lately, mostly ones released in 2023 and 2024, and one thing I’ve noticed (not surprisingly) is the scores. Specifically, I’m noticing the scores of more recent releases. It seems like the sonic […]
Composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch joins the show! Emilie’s latest score is for the film All of Us Strangers, a sort of romance-fantasy-supernatural film that I found absolutely moving. As such, we primarily talk about her score for that film, including talking about […]
It’s easy to get distracted in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film Poor Things, whether from the visuals reminiscent of a 60s Czech fantasy film, the voluminous sex scenes, or Jerskin Fendrix’s (interview) unabashedly strange score. But, in one way or another, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Any discussion of the music of Tár must first start with the idea that the film has no score. I saw this constantly repeated, particularly when the film’s score was up for a number of awards and critics’ recognitions in […]
All it took was watching the trailer for Name Me Lawand to sell me on the film. It promises an intriguing, emotive journey (that The Guardian calls “emphatic and inspiring”) sure to make you cry and smile. How could I […]
In one of the last interviews of Season 3, composer and director Mark Jenkin joins The Film Scorer podcast! Mark recently released his experimental folk horror film Enys Men (Cornish for Stone Island) earlier this year, as well as his […]
After an extended hiatus, I’m back! And what better time to return than when the weather’s getting warmer, days are getting longer, and adult refreshments are flowing freer. If you’re anything like me—which, if you’re spending time on a website […]