It started with Sneakers. A winter night, a university campus, a snowstorm. A man is about to be arrested. His friend abandons him to his fate. It’s a hacker-heist film, lots of famous actors looking at computer monitors in the dark, but really it’s the music that stars. Fidgety piano parts. Throbs of choir. The score opens with strings, then a motif on…
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