Volker Bertelmann on Netflix’s A House of Dynamite: Inside the Sound of Fear

Netflix’s upcoming nuclear thriller A House of Dynamite doesn’t shout catastrophe—it pulses with it. Its heartbeat is the work of Volker Bertelmann, the German Academy Award-winning composer behind All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave. In Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, where a nuclear strike inches toward Chicago, Bertelmann’s music functions like a psychological detonator. … Read more