David Boffa

3 weeks ago | tonemadison.com | Maxwell Courtright |David Boffa |Grant Phipps |Lewis Peterson

Documentaries aren’t necessarily Tone Madison‘s eminent go-to for film coverage. Scan our most recent archives, and you’re bound to come across numerous pieces on classic genre films of several shades as well as historically important art-house fare, and even some modern experimental shorts or influentially transgressive pieces. Over the past year, we’ve tried to emphasize brand-new narratives that have popped up in commercial theaters.

Dec 16, 2024 | tonemadison.com | David Boffa

Early in Richard Mosse’s Broken Spectre (2022)—a new 74-minute feature film on a loop in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA)’s main second-floor gallery through February 16, 2025—a fragment of Ennio Morricone’s score plays from the spaghetti Western Once Upon A Time In The West (1968). It is the only deviation from composer Ben Frost’s original haunting sound design and music.