In a recent chat, Gofton explained the process behind the Wild Beasts album design, and how it needed to work across various other album campaign elements to fully express Present Tense's themes of "sex, death, birth, memory, betrayal, money, love and inheritance".
Both of those films are, if not outright masterpieces, at least in complete control of their tense and writhing themes, and I long for Haneke to cast his cold eye on the nervous impulses of the English-speaking nations.
But as familiar as so much of Snatcher's set-up is, its deep and detailed plot, grisly imagery, surprisingly tense atmosphere, mature themes and likeably fallible hero marked it out as a break from the norm.
But as familiar as so much of Snatcher's setup is, its deep and detailed plot, grisly imagery, surprisingly tense atmosphere, mature themes, and likeably fallible hero marked it out as a break from the norm.
And Ennio Morricone has composed a score which is as sinuous and catchy as anything he has written: a theme with a tense and gloomy tread, coolly cranking up the tension.
From the eerie opening bars of the Shostakovich work, with cello harmonics pitched high above an earthier violin line, to the hard-bitten Jewish dance theme of its tense finale, the music benefited from the technical assurance, deep concentration and fierce energy these players brought to it.
Designers, typographers, and geographers are becoming interested in the discourse analysis of such semiotic relationships as focus, theme, transitivity, grammatical mode, tense, and aspect.
The frantic, open nature of the first period could not be matched by a tense and nervy goalless second - a theme that continued throughout extra time.
"Petra Goes to the Movies" (Anti-) finds Haden taking on film music, from Bernard Herrmann's tense "Psycho" score to John Williams's sweeping "Superman" theme.
It's true, perhaps, that the most memorable spy music is instrumental: the themes that can be played over tense chase scenes.
