In the 17th century, a group of soldiers and their academic hostage eat psychedelic mushrooms in A Field in England. In so doing, they’re convinced that they’ve uncovered the powers of divination, becoming enspelled in the process. Jim Williams uses […]
Paul Giovanni uses English folk music to reflect the neo-paganist worldview of the The Wicker Man’s isolated islanders. Many of these songs are upbeat drinking ballads or slower love songs. In any other context, they would be the soundtrack to […]
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 […]
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 […]