Film Music

The Defiant Ones is a different kind of music documentary

By Al Horner

Director Allen Hughes opens up about the challenge of capturing Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s American Dream.

How to score an animated gangster movie

By Little White Lies

The Shanghai Restoration Project reveal how they created the soundtrack for Have A Nice Day.

Catching up with the London Contemporary Orchestra ahead of Phantom Thread live

By Adam Woodward

Conductors and longtime friends Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames reveal how they helped bring Jonny Greenwood’s mesmerising score to life.

Black Panther and Kendrick Lamar: Exploding the Marvel Symphonic Universe

By Alasdair Bayman

The rapper’s work on the film’s soundtrack represents a bold new creative direction for the studio.

The 10 best film soundtracks of 2017

By Amar Ediriwira

We sift through the year’s finest original scores, featuring new music by Sufjan Stevens, Mica Levi and Sampha.

Oneohtrix Point Never discusses his intoxicating Good Time score

By Adam Woodward

Musician Daniel Lopatin on soundtracking the Safdie brothers’ stunning latest.

Watch this Stanley Kubrick-inspired music video directed by Alice Lowe

By Little White Lies

The actor, writer and filmmaker has shot a brilliantly bizarre short for the band TOYDRUM.

Listen to Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ Wind River soundtrack

By Isobel Raphael

There’s a familiar melancholy tone to the pair’s score for Taylor Sheridan’s mystery thriller.

How to write music for movie trailers

By Paul Weedon

Ursine Vulpine, whose work has appeared in teasers for Alien: Covenant and The Last Jedi, discusses his creative process.

Why Monterey Pop remains the pinnacle of concert movies

By Matthew Eng

DA Pennebaker’s documentary milestone remains historically vital and as bracingly alive as ever.

Listen to a compilation album of covers from Sofia Coppola films

By Little White Lies

‘Sofia Songs’ is released by Super Fan 99 Records to coincide with the release of The Beguiled.

David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption announces killer 2017 line-up

By William Carroll

The director’s annual celebration returns with an exciting blend of music and film.

Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a new Haim music video

By Little White Lies

Take a first look at the band’s new single ‘Right Now’.

Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury on their Free Fire soundtrack

By Paul Weedon

The composing pair break down their sparse score for Ben Wheatley’s latest.

The Space Jam soundtrack is being reissued on vinyl

By Little White Lies

This Record Store Day features the ultimate ’90s nostalgia trip.

Mica Levi is writing her next score for a movie that doesn’t exist

By Little White Lies

The Jackie and Under the Skin composer is involved in an ambitious project called The Unfilmables.

Hauschka on Jonny Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood score

By Paul Weedon

The experimental German composer discusses his favourite OST.

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