Soundtrack reviews of John Debney’s Broken Horses (Lakeshore Records) and Benjamin Wallfisch’s Desert Dancer (Varese Sarabande) + “Liquid Puppetry” to screen at the PlāYR Video Festival.
Running over an hour, John Debney’s score for Broken Horses has three specific recurring moods: a gentle waltz that’s heartwarming and simultaneously tragic; a grungy, grinding string motif that’s deliberately ugly, often functioning as a portent of danger…
Based on the life of Iranian dance choreographer Afshin Ghaffarian, the music for Desert Dancer functions as a discrete, almost ambient sonic work. Most of the cues are performed by strings and hints of Persian instruments and harmonics, and while not abstract…
Review of Mike Nichols ‘lost’ homage to screwball comedies, The Fortune (1975), released on Blu via Twilight Time.
Twilight Time’s release of Mike Nichols’ The Fortune on Blu-ray (apparently its first-ever home video release) kind of echoes the situation of Peter Bodganovich’s At Long Last Love (1975), a film similarly written-off as a box office dud that vanished from distribution and took decades to emerge in a pristine HD transfer…
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