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CD Review: The True Story of Jesse James / The Last Wagon
In the late 1950s, the Western was facing a tough showdown during the last years of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Interest in the classic film genre was fading, and you could hear the dying gasps
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CD Review: Tom Jones
Arguably the least stuffy costumer ever filmed, Albert Finney stars as TOM JONES (1963), Henry Fielding’s classic bastard of ignoble birth. With a countryside estate’s worth of raucous performances–including Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, and Dame Edith
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CD Review: Angels & Demons
One Pope is dead and someone is murdering the preferiti, the cardinals in line to be the next Vicar of Christ. Add to the mix a canister of antimatter set to blow up Vatican
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CD Review: Inside Daisy Clover
April was a momentous month for film score fans. Andre Previn celebrated his 80th birthday, Kritzerland released his score for TWO FOR THE SEESAW while Film Score Monthly released a 2-CD set of the
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CD Review: Alexandra
Legendary soprano Galina Vishnevskaya will forever be linked with such legendary recordings as Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Prokofiev’s War and Peace. Her opposition to Soviet rule, along with husband Mstislav
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CD Review: Star Trek (2009)
Let’s get it out of the way right at the beginning. Michael Giacchino’s score for STAR TREK (2009) is not the “instant classic” that Jerry Goldsmith’s STAR TREK – THE MOTION PICTURE was. But then, how
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DVD Review: The City
Year by year our cities grow more complex and less fit for living. The age of rebuilding is here. We must remould our old cities and build new communities better suited to our needs.
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CD Review: Master of the World / Goliath and the Barbarians
I’m not a very impulsive person. Because I like to have my activities planned out, I occasionally miss out on some things if I’m not quick enough. Though I’m always willing to explore, I
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CD Review: Two for the Seesaw
A dejected-looking Robert Mitchum wanders the improbably bare New York City streets, feeding pigeons, visiting museums. Uptown, downtown, on the Brooklyn Bridge and in its shadow, in a city of five million people, he is
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CD Review: Death of a Salesman / Rashomon
Back in his days with Bay Cities and Fynsworth Alley, Bruce Kimmel produced albums that no one else would touch, many of which probably didn’t sell worth a damn. Two of my favorites include
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