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 […]
What creates a supervillain? Most commonly it’s something supernatural, otherworldly, or otherwise impossible to experience in our world. But Joker – and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir’s score – shows a different kind of origin, one in which the villain is molded […]
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 […]