Deep Cuts

Deep Cuts: Can’s Soundtracks

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

August 17, 2017

Living in and out of tune: kraut rockers Can keep an array of films chugging along in their scores

Deep Cuts: Stewart Copeland

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

July 14, 2017

Let the drummer play: the Police bandmember turned to setting the scene in Rumble Fish and other films

Deep Cuts: Yé-yé

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

April 7, 2017

Bubblegum pop: the squeaky-clean French musical genre even shines past the skepticism of Masculin féminin and Les Idoles

Deep Cuts: Leonard Cohen

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

February 6, 2017

The last time I saw you: a walk through the Canadian singer-songwriter's greatest contributions to cinema

Deep Cuts: Schmilsson on Screen

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

October 17, 2016

Jump into the fire: the multi-layered soundtracks by a musician who dreaded live performances

Deep Cuts: Scott Walker

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

August 19, 2016

Best of both worlds: on the avant-garde balladeer's scores to Childhood of a Leader, Pola X, and more

Deep Cuts: Ryuichi Sakamoto

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

June 24, 2016

Untraditional values: on the indelible, intimate hybrid soundtracks created by the Japanese composer for the films of De Palma, Almodóvar, Bertolucci, Oshima, and others

Deep Cuts: John Carpenter

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

May 13, 2016

They live: on the occasion of Lost Themes II, a history of the master of horror's soundtracks

Deep Cuts: Nina Simone

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

April 15, 2016

Angry/Sexy/Cool: the many faces of the musician-activist in film and television

Deep Cuts: The Stars and Bars of Blaxploitation and Its Soundtracks

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

March 11, 2016

Into the groove: the genre musical contributions of funk luminaries Herbie Hancock, Roy Ayers, The Hues Corporation, and Willie Hutch