[Thor Joachim Haga]

Elliot Goldenthal supposedly wrote about 20-something scores for student films at New York University in the late 70s. He didn’t attend that school himself, he went to the Manhattan School of Music, but he hung around campus to do these little gigs inbetween studies. Most of them are lost or hidden away, but ONE of them appeared on YouTube some 10-15 years ago, called “A Fistful of Fantasies”. The date isn’t clear, but it’s somewhere between 1977 and 1979. It’s a fun little score – with Goldenthal approximating both Morricone and Barry (as the film takes spaghetti western or Bond turns), all the while sounding exactly like himself. Well worth a watch, if you haven’t seen it already, for curiousity’s sake: