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Song of the Day: One Battle After Another (“Guitar for Willa”) [YouTube link], composed by Jonny Greenwood, is a delicate, intimate, and melodic respite from an otherwise tense Oscar-nominated score to this 2025 film, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. At once comedic, suspenseful, and action-packed, the film stars the Oscar-nominated…

Song of the Day: Glengarry Glenn Ross (“Blue Skies”) features the words and music of the legendary Irving Berlin. Part of the Great American Songbook, this song was a late addition to the 1926 Rodgers and Hart musical, “Betsy”, sung by Belle Baker. It was also one of the first…

Song of the Day: Flow (“Reflection”) [YouTube link], composed by Gints Zilbalodis and Rihards Zaļupe, is one of the cues from this thought-provoking Oscar-winning “Best Animated Feature“. I must confess that I watched this 2024 film—as I do all films featuring animal characters—with a bit of apprehensiveness. My first thought…

Song of the Day: Frankenstein (“The Tower”) [YouTube link], composed by Alexandre Desplat, is central to the creation scene in this 2025 film, directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and the Oscar-nominated Jacob Elordi as the Creature. Critics have been divided in their assessment…

Song of the Day: Advise & Consent (“Heart of Mine”), music by Jerry Fielding, lyrics by Ned Washington, is heard from a jukebox in a gay bar in this controversial star-packed 1962 film, directed by Otto Preminger. The film is based on Allen Drury’s 1959 political novel. The song is…