Shutter Island

I finally saw Shutter Island and I thought the movie was pretty good. The score, however, was drop-dead gorgeous. The highlight of the whole production comes during the credits for chrissake. Robbie Robertson curated the soundtrack and selected Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight" from his superb, The Blue Notebooks, as the pictures aural backbone. That is saying a lot in the context of a collection of work by modern classical giants like John Cage, Richter, Ingram Marshall, and Brian Eno. Robertson reprises the selection in the credits and seamlessly folds Dinah Washington's "This Bitter Earth" vocals into the composition making it seem that she was always there, or he was always there, or whatever the hell. This is currently my very favorite thing to listen to.