The Film Scorer
@thefilmscorer
Trying to put film music into words; Host of “The Film Scorer” podcast, featuring long-form interviews with film composers
Only Tubi would have an 80s Hungarian animated film where every frame looks like (well, is) an oil painting (Heroic Times)
The score release for Uwe Boll's Citizen Vigilante might have the ugliest cover art ever
The first cue from Pino Donaggio's score to Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Her Private Hell' is out and it's a lush, alluring orchestral piece dripping with mystery and demise.
Can't wait to dig into Blood Incantation's score for their documentary All Gates Open. Expect it'll be more of their spacey vibe rather than death metal (still dying to hear some harsher sounds/styles in scoring)
John Carpenter just announced Cathedral, his debut graphic novel and accompanying metal album, promising hallucinatory dread and darkness. Let’s go
Michael Nyman’s score for the sci-fi classic Gattaca finally gets its digital release today
One of the funniest Oscar bits is Nino Rota's score for The Godfather getting nominated then disqualified after it came out that the Love Theme was copied from his score for Fortunella 15 years earlier, then him winning the Oscar for Part II despite that theme still being in there... Side by side:
Some militaristic, industrial drumming a la Terminator with a tragically heroic theme on top The Big Heat (1988) by Lowell Lo, Ta-Yu Lo, and David Wu
Don’t forget to celebrate the waning hours of Bandcamp Friday and pick up some tunes from your favorite artists
A sick poster for Bushido which is apparently hitting theaters next month, have heard good things and am stoked to check this out
Today’s the first bandcamp Friday of the year, so pick up a few albums and support your favorite artists! Got a wide range of stuff today, including score (from early guest Gazelle Twin), emo, psychedelia, and more. What’d you pick up? What’d you release?
Congratulations to the nominees for the best original score BAFTA! These nominations also happen to be identical to the Oscar best score nominees…
Congratulations to the nominees for the best original score Oscar!
Congrats to the ten scores that made the BAFTA Longlist for best original score Nice to see 28 Years Later get some love Tom Basden only did the songs in Wallis Island, but since he won the BIFA for it alongside Adam Ilhan, I added him in
Daniel said I should try to hang my score notes in a modern art museum - here’s a sneak peek at a page of my Marty Supreme notes before they hit a gallery near you 😉
Obsessed with this audio transition in You've Got Mail, such a funny idea to match-up a sandwich bite with a bag rustling
Congrats to all of the scores and composers who made the shortlist for the Best Score Oscar! No sites actually included the composers, so I’ve added em all in…
A clever use of repetitive ambient score, creating a sense of debilitating anxiety, of otherness and isolation despite being surrounded by people in the middle of bustling Tokyo '964 Pinocchio' scored by Dowser/Hiroyuki Nagashima
It’s the last bandcamp Friday of the year - a great time to support your favorite artists (especially if they showed up on your wrapped…) What’d you release today? What’d you pick up?
Luca Guadagnino's recent comments about costume designers remind me of this older clip of Quentin Tarantino talking about film composers
Max Richter describes how "On the Nature of Daylight" came to be used in Hamnet and helped solve the film's ending
The 2025 Critics Choice Award Shortlist For Best Score (and the other Below-The-Line Categories) has just been released - love seeing the first sets of shortlists and nominations, before groups narrow things down to the same handful of scores (though it's not like these are particularly surprising)
Congrats to the Grammy nominees for best score - film & tv and video games I’ve interviewed a couple of these folks over the years, feels like The Wild Robot was a lifetime ago…
Predator Badlands co-composer Sarah Schachner discusses the emotional journey of her score, which incorporates the Yautja language via @deadline.com
Congrats to all of the Best Original Music nominees at the British Independent Film Awards, who consistently nominates interesting and overlooked projects
There's a wacky little funk sequence early on in Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, immediately followed by a fart joke. Yet somehow the film eventually coalesces into a powerful story about class and codes of honor Composed by Taichiro Kosugi
