Bob Rafelson’s 1981 adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice can’t be credited with launching a resurgence of noir in the 1980s (the honors to some degree probably belong to Lawrence Kasdan’s competing, sweaty 1981 neo-noir classic Body Heat), Rafelson did revisit the genre a couple of times…
No stranger to scoring video games, Nima Fakhrara’s music is as unusual as the interactive game’s design in which players can take several differing paths as they’re immersed in the world of the 1979 Islamic Revolution with turned Iran into a theocracy…
The last film executive produced by the late Wes Craven was graced by an inventive score by Nima Fakhrara (The Signal), which is built around “Colleen,” a short theme rendered on piano that trails off like an elegant, long forgotten chamber piece before restarting and re-emphasizing the theme’s inherent tragic tone…
iTunes, Libsyn, and YouTube podcast interview with Persian-American composer Nima Fakhrara + CD reviews of the discussed soundtracks The Girl in the Photographs and 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (both from Lakeshore Records).
Review of Healey’s Hideaway (2014), Eve Kinizo’s documentary on blues and guitar prodigy Jeff Healey and his influential jazz club, new on DVD from MVD Visual.
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