Saturday, 11 October 2025

Johnny Greenwood Soundtracks

 


Before I went to see Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, I was advised to listen to the score composed by Johnny Greenwood. Film Critic Mark Kermode was especially impressed. I have to say that apart from the brilliant opening sequence, I found it OK, but not as good as some of his other film scores. There are a few films that I have seen with Johnny's music, some I found better than others.

Let's start with the best: Licorice Pizza. (Blow me down if Alana Haim wasn't in both movies). Another film by Paul Thomas Anderson. See my review 17th January 2022. Then with the same director: There Will Be Blood , The Master (wasn't impressed),  Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread. All because I follow films from Paul Thomas Anderson. I had not realised he has stuck with Johnny Greenwood as composer of the music.

I then found there were two other films that I had seen that Johnny has scored: We Need To Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here. I just did not know.

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