Plus ça change

I guess my main preoccupations at 16 were just trying to stay out of trouble. I was incredibly unsuccessful with finding girlfriends and things like that. Really, very, very unsuccessful. I think I wa

Michael Henderson on Radio

‘What Americans call safe music bores me,’ declared Michel Legrand in a 2005 interview, in which he reflected on the high profile he had achieved as one of the world’s leading film composers. ‘If you’

Hildur Guðnadóttir is scrolling through her phone. Whereas most people use the device to collect photographs and notes alongside contact numbers, the Icelandic composer records snippets of music. Thes

Peter Dench considers...

Wim Wenders turned 80 this summer. He started making films six decades ago, in 1967. Unbelievable! In the 1980s and early 1990s, freshers would tack posters of Paris, Texas on their dorm room walls—ne