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Vision Quest, My Brilliant Career and more

Thor Joachim Haga — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:13:54 +0000

L’écologie des sentiments (Agathe Lavarel, 2026) This is French romantic dramedy about a young man who works at a hotel in Paris, and who is subsequently smitten by a young woman who checks in. Composer Agathe Lavarel makes her impressive feature film debut with a score that is part quasi-classical, part quirk. Utilizing voices – […]

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Her Private Hell (Pino Donaggio)

Thor Joachim Haga — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:20:16 +0000

What is it? Her Private Hell (2026) is Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest “trip” of a film – a spacey story about a woman looking for her father, and a man looking for his daughter, as the city they live in is shrouded in a mysterious mist. It premiered out-of-competition in Cannes on May […]

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Disclosure Day (John Williams)

Thor Joachim Haga — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:46:43 +0000

What is it? Steven Spielberg’s latest alien conspiracy thriller, Disclosure Day, has been cleverly marketed and hyped for months – shrewn in secrecy. The end result, however, has divided the waters among both critics and audiences. Basically, it turned out to be “just” a B movie heightened by a master director. But isn’t it a […]

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Deep Quiet Room, Masters of the Universe and more

Thor Joachim Haga — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:15:37 +0000

Two major blockbusters, Toy Story 5 and Masters of the Universe, alongside four under-the-radar gems make up this batch. Deep Quiet Room (Hanan Townshend, 2025) This is a Taiwanese suspense film by Ko-shang Shen, about a man who struggles with deep-buried trauma in the wake of his pregnant wife’s suicide. It has received acclaim in […]

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Euphoria (Hans Zimmer)

Thor Joachim Haga — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:25:15 +0000

What is it? The wildly celebrated HBO TV series Euphoria, about drug-addicted teenager Rue (Zendaya) who tries to navigate high school, young adulthood and various sub cultures, quickly became an international phenomenon; a reference point for the young generation. It also provided career breakthroughs for now-superstars Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney. The third and final season […]

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Rosenman)

Mark Burgess — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:44:36 +0000

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) is not a soundtrack that jumps out as an obvious classic, but has many one-of-a-kind qualities, on perfect display in Intrada’s remastered reissue from 2012. When the album was released on vinyl, shortly after the movie in 1986, I immediately bought it – because it was Star Trek, […]

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The Inquisitor, Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 and more

Thor Joachim Haga — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:38:38 +0000

Another batch of under-the-radar gems covering synth, jazz, orchestral and world music. And a premiere release of a 90s trance gem by The Fast and the Furious composer Brian Transeau (who’s released some of his back catalogue recently). The Inquisitor (Omar Fadel, 2025) Angela Lynn Tucker’s documentary, which has traveled the festival circuit until its […]

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Natt på Munch-museet: Daniel Lopatin i Oslo

Thor Joachim Haga — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:27:57 +0000

Komponist og multikunstner Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) la turen innom Oslo og Munch-museet 11. april for å presentere noe i krysningspunktet mellom konsert og kunstinstallasjon. Interessant i seg selv, men kan ikke måle seg med hans forførende filmmusikk (særlig for Safdie-brødrene). Hvis man kommer til Daniel Lopatin gjennom filmmusikken hans, og ikke studioalbumene, […]

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The Wuxia Commemoration

Mark Burgess — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:50:48 +0000

The musical wuxia tradition lives on through composer Eliot Leung. It may sound like a Le Carré novel, or a Matt Damon film, but the scene you need to imagine is a quite different one. A stealthy figure, clothed in middle kingdom Hanfu silk, leaps across the tiled roof of a Chinese pagoda, in twilight. […]

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Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Melodies

Mark Burgess — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:22:29 +0000

Let’s examine some pre-Star Wars film composers who made its score possible, many of whom are represented on the Chandos label. We sometimes take modern film music for granted. Over the history of film, the incidental music that tells us what to feel has changed often, and dramatically, from mere windup organs to symphony orchestras, […]

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