Philip Brophy
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Jon Brion: Sad Waltzes, Empathic Embrace and Anxious Fits - The Wire (opens the original)
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In this latest instalment of the Secret History of Film Music, Philip Brophy considers how Jon Brion’s music engenders sympathy for the flawed characters in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025) and Punch-Drunk Love (2002), and Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird (2017). As discussed in the previous essay in this series, Jonny Greenwood provides an amazing score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025). But two pieces by an earlier composer of Anderson’s films bookend the
Philip Brophy - The Wire (opens the original)
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In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses Jonny Greenwood's score for Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025) It’s hard to put your finger on how Jonny Greenwood’s commissioned score operates in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025). Not because the music is vague, indistinct or haphazard, but because it’s so deeply embedded in the story’s tight dramaturgy. It never feels like it’s accompanying anything. The music doesn’t come from
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