The Best Scores of 2017
Alexandre Desplat’s “The Shape of Water” rides the wave of The Best Scores of 2017
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13Dec2017
30Nov2017
28Nov2017
Audio: Interview with Alexandre Desplat
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer ALEXANDRE DESPLAT, who beautifully transmutes the language of inter-species love into the French-accented THE SHAPE OF WATER
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21Nov2017
Interview with Dario Marianelli
Scoring the speech of no surrender for Winston Churchill’s “Darkest Hour”
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20Nov2017
November Soundtrack Picks
Also worth picking up: THE BAD SEED, BATMAN AND HARLEY QUINN, BETTING ON ZERO, DON’T LOOK NOW, LADY BIRD, THOR RAGNAROCK, TROY and many more
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02Nov2017
Interview with Graham Reynolds
A composer who carries the indie torch for director Richard Linklater now picks up a 70’s rock groove for aging vets in “Last Flag Flying”
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26Oct2017
Audio: Interview with Carter Burwell
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer CARTER BURWELL, a musical triple threat this fall as he puts up ironic complaints on THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI, breaks down time travelling walls in WONDERSTRUCK and ventures back to Winnie the Pooh’s creation for GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
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19Oct2017
Interview with Rob
France’s rising composer of retro-styled horror scoring visits America’s legendary haunted house for “Amityville: The Awakening”
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11Oct2017
Interview with Tom Howe
A strong scoring talent is revealed with the sensual creation of an iconic super heroine alongside “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women”
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03Oct2017
Interview with Joseph Lo Duca and Don Mancini
The terror tag-team of composer and director for horror’s favorite Good Guy multiplies for an asylum holding the “Cult of Chucky”
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27Sep2017
Interview with Nathan Barr
Scoring on through to the other side with a new generation of “Flatliners”
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26Sep2017
21Sep2017
Interview with Clint Mansell
Painting a picture of an artistically possessed icon with “Loving Vincent”
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20Sep2017
Audio: Interview with Matthew Margeson
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer MATTHEW MARGESON, who teams again with Henry Jackman to give Britain’s satirical super spies a new American Spaghetti Western sound with KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
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10Aug2017
03Aug2017
Interview with Warren Ellis
Once again haunting the American badlands with Nick Cave for “Wind River”
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18Jul2017
July, 2017 Soundtrack Picks
“WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES” is the top soundtrack to own for July, 2017
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13Jul2017
Interview with Brian Reitzell
Paying eclectic and inventive musical worship to Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”
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03Jul2017
Interview with Daniel Hart
Hauntingly scoring the white sheet melancholy of the afterlife for “A Ghost Story”
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19Jun2017
Interview with Lorne Balfe
Making equations and icons of history come to musical life with “Genius” and “Churchill”
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06Jun2017
Audio: Interview with Brian Tyler and Alex Kurtzman
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer BRIAN TYLER and director ALEX KURTZMAN, who unleash a newly ancient musical world of gods and monsters for THE MUMMY
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02Jun2017
Interview with Rupert Gregson-Williams
Scoring with strength and heart for DC’s Amazonian Avenger with the epic music origin story of “Wonder Woman”
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24May2017
May 2017 Soundtrack Picks
Also worth picking up: ALIEN CONVENANT, BABY’S DAY OUT, GET EVEN, THRILLER, ROCKET TO THE MOON, WONDER WOMAN and many more!
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23May2017
Interview with Geoff Zanelli
Captaining his own “Pirates” ship into The Devil’s Triangle for “Dead Men Tell No Tales”
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16May2017
Interview with Aaron Zigman
A composer finds himself in the real, and existential hiding space of “Wakefield”
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03May2017
Audio: Interview with Tyler Bates
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer TYLER BATES, who brings a second chapter of cosmically heroic music to the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 2!
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01May2017
Interview with Mandy Hoffman
Bringing a lushly romantic French touch to the American indie cheaters of “The Lovers”
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05Apr2017
Interview with Bear McCreary
Linking indie relationship dysfunction with giant monster mashing for the music of “Colossal”
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03Apr2017
Interview with Rob Simonsen
A youthful composer steals a stylistic grab bag of scores with “Going in Style” and “Gifted”
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14Mar2017
Soundtrack Picks: “LOGAN” is the top soundtrack to own for March, 2017
Also worth picking up BEFORE I WAKE, BEVERLY HILLS COP, FRANKENSTEIN, PLANETARIUM, PLANET EARTH II, THE RED BALLOON, SILENT RUNNING TINA GUO: GAME ON! and many more!
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