A new bimonthly column by Elle Carroll, addressed to the overlap between Bandcamp and Letterboxd — a readership that barely gets written for. Issue one runs on Marihiko Hara, who scored Kokuho and put a viola da gamba over the kabuki sequences instead of under them, then defended it: the film is about an artist, not about kabuki. Buried in it is the best thing on the page — Stockhausen answering a CD-R handed over in an autograph line with a letter warning him off sixths and kitsch, and a flat prediction that he would end up scoring films.
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FIND — the score is ahead of the room.
BENCHMARK IN THE 50 · editorial-taste lane — Black Film Archive, with the columnist authority of Monocle