Score

Matt Schrader's first feature Score leads the slender field of documentaries about the work of film composers. Anyone whose interest runs deeper than humming the Darth Vader march will delight at the sheer who's who lined up for this tantalising insight into an art form that leading light Hans Zimmer reminds us keeps the world's studio orchestras in work, while director James Cameron refers to the score as a movie's "heart and soul". With its Kong-to-Jaws potted history out of the way, Score luxuriates in footage of crack musicians at Abbey Road giving life to Duel of the Fates from The Phantom Menace and Patrick Doyle cheerfully bashing out his Potter Waltz from The Goblet of Fire on the piano. The notes of a motif from Lord of the Rings appear graphically on screen, but apart from that, it's sheer indulgence for audio-cinephiles yearning to see Tom Holkenborg call up the drums from Mad Max: Fury Road and play them on his keyboard. Zimmer speaks for every insecure composer when he imagines panicking, "You'd better phone John Williams, I have no idea how to do this!"