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\u201cCan a meretricious, inane movie with nothing else to recommend it produce a radiant, rousing film score?\u201d asks Gary Giddins in \u201cRolling Thunder,\u201d the January/February 2018 edition of Film Comment\u2018s \u201cPlaying Along\u201d column. \u201cVery rarely,\u201d he answers. Although Giddins isolates Franz Waxman\u2019s score for Taras Bulba as a specific example, the guests on this week\u2019s episode of the Film Comment Podcast each provide a couple more, which led to reminiscences about genre sampler OSTs, unlikely pop music cues, and whether or not Steven Spielberg\u2019s idea of humor is just\u2026shouting. For this conversation, FC Digital Producer Violet Lucca is joined by Tom Scharpling, host of The Best Show, and frequent FC contributors Margaret Barton-Fumo and Nick Pinkerton.