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Coming attractions for films old and new, featuring the original score and NOT “Carmina Burana”.
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
In 1917, three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, reportedly saw a vision of a lady in a cloud. Over a period of six months, the crowds expanded on the 13th of each month as news spread
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Kundun
When Martin Scorcese’s KUNDUN was released on Christmas Day, 1997, its box office prospects were decidedly slim. The film cost $24 million and only took in a paltry $5.6 million, far below the $42 million
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Il Postino
This past awards season, Harvey Weinstein launched a brilliant campaign and helped sweep THE KING’S SPEECH into the Oscar winners circle. (Some marvelous acting and an emotionally rich story didn’t hurt either.) Back in
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Notes on a Scandal
It’s spring (though you’d never know it from the temperatures here in Manhattan) and supposedly love is in the air. So it’s only fitting to revisit the chilly “love story” of NOTES ON A SCANDAL
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On a High and Windy Hill
Following the success of Dimitri Tiomkin’s title song for HIGH NOON, whose popularity prior to the film’s release marketed it to box office bucks (and no doubt helped him win the Oscar), producers scrambled
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Anastasia (1956)
After fleeing her family and running off with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, scandalizing the film community, Ingrid Bergman was welcomed back into Hollywood’s bosom in 1956 with her dramatic performance in ANASTASIA. Bergman won
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Far From the Madding Crowd
If given the chance, I would watch Julie Christie read the phone book. (Do they even make phone books anymore?) And the torrid, tragic romanticism of Thomas Hardy’s novels seem perfect for cinematic translation,
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From the Horse’s Mouth
One of the challenges of bringing plays to the screen is how to “open up” the stage-bound dialogue and events so that it feels and sounds more like a film. And when a play
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Babel
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s BABEL (2006) completed the trilogy that began with AMORES PERRES (2000) and 21 GRAMS (2003). The multi-cultural BABEL tells four interlocking stories on three continents in five languages. Brad Pritt and
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Pillow Talk
I unashamedly admit it…I love Doris Day! I love her voice and her bubbly personality in films such as PILLOW TALK. It’s shocking to think that something like this was once considered sophisticated humor,
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