In his collaboration with South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, Jung Jae-il has become the composer who best captures the critical issues of our contemporary society. Following his soundtracks for Okja, Parasite, and Squid Game, his work on Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson and now in cinema, further cements this status.
We interviewed the composer behind The Brutalist soundtrack, whose artistic courage and radical vision is rooted in an East London cafè, and football too.
The Italian composer was a pioneer of electronic music, in a cultural season in which Italy and its synthesisers reached global appraisal and were loved by international rock stars.
The French actress and musician joined Philippe Sarde in studio to bring to life, fifty and counting years after its composition, a song written for Romy Schneider but never recorded.
Composer Fabio Massimo Capogrosso on reinterpreting the musical heritage of Fiorenzo Carpi’s Pinocchio for Francesca Comencini’s ‘Il tempo che ci vuole’ and collaborating with Marco Bellocchio.
Since the 1950s, the beach and the road have forged the archetype of an all-Italian way to comment on the myth of the holidays. Equally frantic and alienating, from Il sorpasso and Swept Away to Cario diario and Call Me By Your Name, soundtracks have been crucial in portraying these scenarios.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the film (and the soundtrack by Piero Piccioni), we have collected five curiosities about Lina Wertmüller’s masterpiece. There are works that are often hastily defined as timeless, timeless masterpieces. And yet, films such as Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto (aka Swept Away) (1974) by […]
Swept away on a boat off the Sicilian coastline, we recount through words and images the Ortigia’s instalment of gggglllloooossssaaaa, an itinerant interdisciplinary venture, which jointly with CAM Sugar has celebrated the island’s soundscape.
In the years of La Dolce Vita, an elective affinity blossomed between italian cinema and tropical rhythms which, sixty years on, continue to soundtrack the Italian summer. A new collection unveils this untold story.
The soundtrack composer of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness is subverting the status quo of contemporary film music. Is a new wave of composer-director creative partnerships possible?
The graphic designer takes us on a tour of his home studio and discusses the influence of collecting books and ephemera on design.
The recently rediscovered vocal version by Florinda Bolkan of the Ennio Morricone’s classic is a sensual invitation to share the dinner table and perhaps more .
From Ennio Morricone and Piero Piccioni to Bach and Vivaldi, soundtracks are a tool to better decipher the approach of the author and director to cinema and the meanings assigned to the seventh art.
What remains and what has changed in the way of experiencing the Milan derby more than forty years after Eccezzziunale…veramente. There was a time, at the beginning of the 1980s, when Italian cinema loved to tell tales of urban phenomena, with an eye halfway between blunt sociology and sharp cabaret gags. You had the Yuppies, […]
The 1973 Cannes Film Festival came at a peculiar time for France. Whereas on the other side of the Alps, neighbouring Italy was fine tuning its Molotov cocktails and getting ready for a crescendo of social tension and political violence, France seemed to have slipped back into calm.
