Sometimes a great score’s attachment to a commercial bomb means the score itself will quickly disappear into the void. Blonde presents a slight variant. Instead of box office poison, the film’s graphic portrayals of violence and abuse drew widespread repulsion. […]
Another year, another best-of list! Though, as you might be well aware by now, I don’t pretend to actually know what the “best” scores of 2022 were. Instead, this list is really of my favorite scores from last year, presented […]
I know, it’s already mid-January and yet this series is only up to September. It’s painful to be trapped in the past… The upside is that September saw some great scores, including the fantastic intimate-medieval score to Medieval from Philip […]
December takes us to the end of the year, bringing not just the last of the awards season hopefuls but also a number of my favorite scores of 2021, like La Panthere des Neiges and The Novice. As a result, […]
We’re already well into 2022, which means I’m very late! But as they say, better late than never. It’s time for the annual tradition of covering the “best” film scores of 2021. If you don’t want to read through the […]
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have solidified their niche as composers of the desolate and decayed. Although they’ve occasionally veered off into the post-apocalyptic, their scores most commonly find themselves in hopeless neo-westerns. The duo’s score for Taylor Sheridan’s directorial […]
The Proposition is a neo-western about the struggle for civilization. But, unlike most westerns, the conflict surrounding civilization is not between colonizer and colonized. Instead, it is between Australia’s criminal, lawless roots and encroaching British imperialism wishing to bring law […]